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.
Most of us aren’t so privileged that we get to pretend that politics doesn’t control and shape the course of our lives.
Because:
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.
Why is all of Lemmy politics?
Do you know why the Lemmy platform and the lemmy.ml instance were created in the first place?
Lemmy is very shallow and politically motivated it seems.
Politics is orthogonal to depth. The existence of shallow politics in no way suggests the absence of deep politics.
Because everything is politics
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.
You should probably start learning about politics. If you only start when the bombs drop on your head, it’s too late.
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
I swear my feed is like 50% Trump
Trump trump trump I’m fucking sick of it
You can block keywords like ‘trump’ so those posts don’t show up in your feed
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.
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
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…
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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Sorry, revolutionary praxis is when someone makes ten posts in a row about how they do believe in Stalin, they do they do!
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.
