Feddit (Beta)Why is all of Lemmy politics?
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Seriously every other post, every sub seems like nothing but politics. It’s so boring and disgusting. What made reddit great at one time was the diversity of genres and depth. Lemmy is very shallow and politically motivated it seems. I have been here since the Reddit exodus. It’s always been this way.
Do different Lemmy servers have different content?
Are certain severs curated?
Where do I find the depth and deep subject matter.
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It is not. Subscribe to the feeds you want the view only subscribed. There are several views.
This! I also configured my client to hide posts with ~10 keywords (
trump,ice,kills, etc), and my feed suddenly had a much more diverse set of topics. Usually there is a common keyword between topics you’d want to see less of; you just need to keep it in mind while you’re browsing so you can find it!I did not know this was possible. This is the help I needed.
Too bad that almost every other posts got distracted by the users going into (F)OSS politics/drama instead
Yep works well in piefed. Make a filter and see politics stop appearing.
You can curate your own feed: use the block button for any communities you don’t want to see.
As for why there’s a lot of politics on lemmy: The west’s leading country just threatened to annihalate an entire civilization yesterday. Kind of a lot going on right now.
Because:
Most of us aren’t so privileged that we get to pretend that politics doesn’t control and shape the course of our lives.
I wish I could be as disconnected from the reality of whats happening around us as these people seem to be, genuinely envious.
I would have less anxiety, for a start.
same here; i would be homeowner, married w children and with genuine retirement retirement prospects if politics did force the dissolution of my marriage; forced me to accept college debt for a useless degree; and several jobs untenable.
it’s strange to imagine myself as a capitalist. lol
Be the content you want to see.
Also, it’s odd to equate deep subject matter with a lack of politics.
Politics is just things i consider controversial.
OP is not the only one who has noticed a lot of content on here is shallow&political
If you haven’t notice yet, the world is burning. It’s burning due to the actions of rich political people. That’s really important. People tend to talk about stuff like that.
Comment section of this post is not beating the allegations
Umm ok? Yeah, politics are being discussed everywhere. That’s because politics are important. People trying to bury their heads in the sand and pretend they’re not are a big part of why things are going to hell.
If you don’t like political posts, don’t read them.
If only it were that simple. These nerds pop up all over the place. Like when I posted about the World Cup, nothing but politics-nerds in the comments: https://lemmy.ml/post/45406364
There’s only 1 (possibly 2, depending on how strictly you define politics) root comments on that linked post related to politics.
The post isn’t beating the allegations. Wanting to avoid political discussions is inherently political.
You’re setting up a rhetorical double-bind
Because everything is politics
This. Fuck man this world is so spoiled by a long peace that people don’t fucking understand the stakes anymore.
Apparently we are rapidly approaching another period of time where just nicely begging people to take this shit seriously isn’t enough and we are going to have to kill a hundred million people or so for another generation can learn this same fucking lesson we’ve been repeating for some 40,000 years.
But no, Love Island is on, so feel free to ignore the incipient fascism bearing down on you and condemn your children to a world where that won’t be possible.
💯🎯👏👏
Got a vasectomy. No kids. Let the nukes fly. I know yall deep down want it because that is more easily imaginable then a world not run by oligarchs.
Artist?
Georg Flegel
Thank you, it’s so beautiful
His crystal glass stuff is insane, but yeah he’s fantastic in general.
There is a degree of anount.
I’d say my Reddit subs are similarly set up to my Lemmy communities.
My feed is 80% (US) politics or (F)OSS politics even on stuff that is neither of them in the first place.
Reddit on the other hand was more like 20% potentially political, 75% random stuff like memes or niche sub posts and 5% political/story time subs.
Sadly the reddit feed became almost unusable. The r/sysadmin feed is atrocious.
Everything is politics. The moment you think otherwise you become part of the problem.
Everything is political, and Lemmy was made as an alternative to Reddit based on ideological reasoning in favor of FOSS and federation. Lemmy was made by communists, and there are a ton of us communists here as a consequence.
because politics literally affect every aspect of life? i mean i know it can be tiring and it’s really depressing, i know on mastodon you can filter out posts but idk about lemmy/piefed, but politics will always be talked about and trying to avoid it entirely or saying “i dont do politics” is just ignorance
It’s especially tiring, but important to keep up with, when you have some asshole threatening the entire world.
There was a lot less political stuff when Biden was president.
“why do people care so much about the possibility of nuclear war? why is this hitler guy so controversial? so disgusting!”
Presumably, you left for political reasons?
This is a bit, right?
Do you know why the Lemmy platform and the lemmy.ml instance were created in the first place? - https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy - What is lemmy.ml?
Politics is orthogonal to depth. The existence of shallow politics in no way suggests the absence of deep politics.
You can’t find depth and deep subject matter in politics? Sounds like a you problem
Lemmy (and other fediverse services) users are mostly here because we have some strong opinions about mainstream social media, and those opinions are tied closely to politics these days.
If we didn’t, we’d probably be on Reddit, xitter, Facebook, etc. instead.
And if you get a bunch of people with strong opinions about something together, there’s a good chance the conversation is going to go in that direction sooner or later.
And like others have said, everything is politics, basically every aspect of life can be tied to politics in some way.
And there is a lot of political stuff going on all around the world that everyone really should be concerned about and following, and there’s a lot to discuss about it.
And I get it, it can be exhausting. I definitely wish I lived in a world where I didn’t have to pay as much attention to politics as I do.
The best thing you can do is to be active in communities you want to see have more activity. If no one’s posting the kind of “non-political” content you want to see, be the person posting it, if you build it they will come. Be the change you want to see.
In general, all Lemmy servers have the same content as every other one because they’re federated. There are some cases where instances have defederated from each other, and admins have done bans and such that I think may change what content is available to you
Also you’re on .ml, which is a pretty explicitly political instance. I don’t know all the technical details but I’m also under the impression that the mods and admins there are pretty quick to bring their ban-hammer down hard on people who disagree with them, so that could potentially be having some effect of what you’re able to see, though things are certainly looking pretty political from over here on .world too.
Sorry, everything is politics not just on lemmy
no it’s not
The fact that you’re so avoidant of the inherent politics of the everyday world is a reaction desirable to the status quo, which is itself political. Congratulations, your kind of politics is status-quo-enjoyer which kills countless people every year for you to remain comfortable and blind to politics.
Thank you for telling me what my kind of politics is.
Do I owe you a fee for the diagnosis?
Something missing from this discussion (that I’ve read) is the size of Lemmy. On a much larger platform you can have 6 different flavours of meme communities or tech communities where there are rules banning political news etc but there’s simply not enough people here to split communities.
It also means that smaller communities, like video game specific communities, have all but died off as the couple of people that started them have lost interest or left Lemmy.
While I get some of the arguments I’ve seen against trying to grow Lemmy these small communities are doomed without a dedicated passionate following and places based around niche topics are never going to survive in such a small space.
With all that said; politics are universal and touch on pretty much every aspect of our lives so political topics come up in every community, even small ones and especially one as politically charged as Lemmy.
I think this is about when you browse more than anything else. A significant portion of posts on Lemmy are posted by serial posters. If you don’t browse when they post their stuff, you could think it’s all us news bots
So you fled one billionaire-owned political echo chamber for an open-source lefty platform only to realize you actually just miss cat pics and woodworking tutorials.
Boring and disgusting? Sounds like you just don’t agree with lefty politics.
Its not that I don’t agree with left politics at all. I just am bombarded with anything political overall on Lemmy. I am less concentrated on whether I agree and more into the creativity and education side of content I think. I will try the blocking of keywords feature to tone it down. I don’t mine some. Just not every post or 3.
You’re on .ml it’s literally Marxist Leninist. You’re like an American standing in Mexico complaining about everyone speaking Spanish.
To be fair, Lemmy.ml just has lots of MLs, Lemmygrad.ml is the actual ML instance. Also to be fair, many instances do have strong political views as a part of their identity.
And also many people joined ml as they saw it as the default instance.
Yep, Lemmy.ml isn’t actually something that can be categorized as “cleanly ML.”
When I was with the reddit exodus . ML was the computer, dev, tech instance so I leaned that way. Other than that I did not choose any instance for a particular reason or view. It was just a larger server maintained by real computer users. Only. world was larger. Now there are many servers to choose.
Fair
I’m not OP, but thanks for spelling that out. I guess I must have seen a bunch of tech stuff from that instance starting out. I was under the impression it was started by Machine Learning enthusiasts. Lol.
It’s literally Mali. Having alternate country codes is just a way to take advantage of countries with less of a presence on the internet to be able to get better domain names and at a lower price. .ml specifically was given away for free.
The worst, I think, is .io since the profits of those domains should go to the chagossians, but it just goes to the British government.
Luckily you can choose what you see. If you don’t like politics, just block it or don’t subscribe to it. I just checked and my scaled main page is 17:3 non-politics to politics posts. (One of the 3 is this post here)
I mean it depends on what subs you subscribe to; my subscribed feed is mostly tech, history, and wholesome news.
But politics will tend to bubble up because gestures around
Sure, there’s a lot of politics on here but definitely not all of Lemmy is about politics… If you dislike politics, I suggest you block Lemmy communities with politics in them if you dislike to that extent… Or you could just not subscribe to any such communities and stick to “Home” or “Subscribed” which will only give you content from communities you’re subscribed with.
Because all media is political
Everything is politics. Avoiding thinking about or discussing consequential things is a political position which is well served almost everywhere else on the internet.
Lemmy is part of the fediverse. On the fediverse you are your own algorithm. So either you have curated your feed to be very political or you’re on the local feed of your instance, which has a lot of political posts. But you signed up there.
Either way, you’re there by choice. Curate your own feed. I get lots of stuff that isn’t political. Just keep in mind you don’t get reddit user numbers over here so not every niche nonpolitical subject has found a viable community. Yet.
Depends on what you define as “politics” but aside from “everything is politics”, my Lemmy feed is mostly tech stuff. Just subscribe to communities that fit your interests. That being said, many interests will be under-represented on Lemmy as I think the user base skews either technical or political or both.
Drop some cool memes into lemmy and make it better for all of us.
lemmy was created by the people who used to inhabit r/politics; r/socialism; r/communism; r/linux; and r/foss and they coalesced around lemmy.ml
lemmy.world has the bread-and-circuses that you’re looking for.
I swear my feed is like 50% Trump
Trump trump trump I’m fucking sick of it
There’s one really cool way to reduce the amount of trump in the world
You can block keywords like ‘trump’ so those posts don’t show up in your feed
Then work harder to make sure Trump becomes nothing more than a cautionary tale.
Sanitize your feed maybe? I never see the bronzer golem on here.
I also think it is the times we live in right now. The world is in shambles, not too weird everyone is very political motivated right now. Just wait untill times settle. Then you’ll see the political interest go way down again. But yeah. I am missing reddit on the sports forum part. There is dead.
I almost never see politics in my feed. But Lemmy itself was created by leftist communists, it was never built to be a politics free space
It takes manual curation if you want to avoid it
Ironically, due the nature of the language used in their complaint and its similarity to psychological operations conducted by COINTELPRO, @OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml seems “shallow and politically motivated”.
I had to block countless politic communities by hand. Now I see a normal amount of posts, and not just that.
Also, block by word like ‘Elon’, ‘Musk’, ‘Trump’ etc…
Try other instances. No one forbids you from creating new accounts and explore other instances. And no one prohibits you from leaving completely lemmy.ml either.
When was the reddit exodus?
Not enough people that aren’t interested in politics present here to engage more actively in non-political communities. Lemmy or PieFed still haven’t reached even 1 million of users. While Reddit in glory days had dozens of millions users(not bots).
Every time I see a politics news or comic or meme I block that community. It’s great my entire feed is fun stuff and cool art
Lol, downvotes because you are doing the smart thing.
If I’d do that, I could look at my feed weekly and scroll through it in 60min max.
Not too unhealthy but not what I want to use it for.
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I consider doom scrolling to be an unhealthy way to consume news and an ineffective tool for political change. Protests, strikes, and voting change politics. There is little to be gained by algorithmically filling my body with cortisol and adrenaline.
My head is not in the sand because I read apnews and reuters periodically.
I prefer for lemmy to be an enjoyable place to visit. If it was an endless feed of doom I would uninstall and read a book instead.
If I can frame this a different way — I wish interest-driven discovery had a little less friction on lemmy/in fediverse. I don’t assume it’s not there. I just haven’t found it yet.
Change your instance. A lot of the content you see will depend on the instance you are in. ML is notorious for politics and I’m leaving it at that.
But also keep in mind politics are an important part of life and it’s impossible to fully remove that. Especially with a tense political climate as it is right now.
Besides politics it’s mostly technology, and humour. That’s basically because only a very specific kind of person has chosen to be on Lemmy, at this point.
Here’s a couple at random that are humour:
!antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
!reallyshittycopper@lemmy.world
And here’s a couple that are something else:
!liminalspace@lemmy.world
!old_maps@mander.xyz
You’ll notice it’s mostly .world, because that’s by far the biggest instance, and also not very political.
Lemmy.world is highly political, just for liberalism, the standard in the western world.
Apolitical and standard-political heavily intermix.
I wish r/highqualitygifs would migrate to Lemmy.
Just avoid the political communities
That post may-be a starting point, https://lemmy.world/post/2216085
I try to be active on
!imageai@sh.itjust.works (AI generated image, as it got so much easier to do the community lost it’s cool factor
rpg@ttrpg.network and !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network for RPG discussions and meme
While I am not active here !casualconversation@piefed.social is active and the talks are about pets and plan for the week-end, and if I talk about Donald, it’s the duck one
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I tried asking about the World Cup the other day and the comments were all about politics. Super gay and annoying.
Wants to avoid politics and uses “gay” as a perjorative. This user is either 12 or a Nazi. Possibly both, I suppose.
Just look at the attacks and hate for simply asking this question. It’s crazy. I just want to see less political. To filter out some. It’s rampant. I get it with the world. But where’s the wood working tutorials and discovery of things anymore.
What do you want to learn how to make (out of wood)?
Was more of a joke. A commenter above told me I was only looking for woodworking tutorials and needed to get over the political side if Lemmy and basically I was being a baby about it.
I appreciate the effort though. I’m interested in learning and engineering things from all materials. 3d printers, woodwork, homelabs, old cars and mechanical things.
Books yo, may they be your best friend. I just threw away about 100 old car manuals from my fathers place, there’s hella print still around.
Because politics has broad “appeal” and people are passionate about it. It’s also a form of propaganda. Different communities will use/abuse their power to influence how their users view issues.
I find Lemmy to have barely any politics. I’m new to Lemmy though. If you haven’t been on Reddit lately, go visit that propaganda machine.
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It isn’t really surprising that a federated, FOSS alternative to Reddit and its enshittification has a lot of left-wingers, especially when it’s developed by communists.
Not knocking some people’s views. However simply look at the comments here and it’s mostly hate, negativity, echo chamber. Most of the replies are saying to get over it, like politics, this view or that view skewed with bias.
I was asking how, where to find more depth and communities or different servers if they host other content. Instead I’ve got like 100 mostly political replies. It’s weird.
Sorry, revolutionary praxis is when someone makes ten posts in a row about how they do believe in Stalin, they do they do!