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.
I have been here since the Reddit exodus
Presumably, you left for political reasons?
Because that’s what people most engage with. On Reddit there’s a lot of politics too by the way. You’re free to create your own non-political community and create content there as well.
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.
lemmy.world has the bread-and-circuses that you’re looking for.
Yes. Along with all the rabid pro-western propaganda, chauvanism, unexamined privilege, and the insufferable confidence in mistaking naivete and ignorance for common knowledge. You know, all the stuff that should make you feel right at home if all you’re looking for is a reddit 2.0. Then again, there are a number of instances to choose from if that’s what you’re looking for, but .world remains the classic example.
Your instance and this filled with (using the analogy from your quote) eastern propaganda and very similar flaws that you have given to the lemmy.world. For me, it sounds like some kind of envy that there exist a powerful rivalry instance, that doesn’t share same opinions and grows bigger and bigger each day.
The problem with your accusation is that it doesn’t hold water. Leftist instances are consistently more correct regarding political views. You can’t just say that Hexbear is wrong for having stances, you need to investigate the stances themselves.
There is no rivalry. Lemmy is for everyone. That includes people who live their lives in different ways. Ways that you disagree with. This is a good thing.
Ways that you disagree with.
Fine. Until those ways are supporting genocide and the enslavement of 99.9% of the planets population to the insatiable greed of the tiny fraction of the world the status quo was created to work for. Then we have a real problem, and I’m not gonna “agree to disagree” with anyone taking that stance.
Sadly, but your point of view is not shared by many other people on this platform. Rivalry indeed do exist, as I had noticed attending both instances. But it only exists for political points of views. All others aspects, as I will agree, relatevely the same.
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
You picked the wrong instance if you don’t like being a tankie.
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
Then work harder to make sure Trump becomes nothing more than a cautionary tale.
You can block keywords like ‘trump’ so those posts don’t show up in your feed
Sanitize your feed maybe? I never see the bronzer golem on here.
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!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.
I did not know this was possible. This is the help I needed.
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.
What kind of silly baby are you?
All life is politics. Go play with your Legos, baby-man.
Legos
Even legos are politics, did you seen the Iranian lego videos?
Because everything is politics
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.
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.
💯🎯👏👏
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.
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
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.
