Why is almost everything on Lemmy political?

Submitted ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨timeless@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

I joined Lemmy a few days ago and have been reading around. 90%+ of the content I see, even on non-politics related communities, is political in some way. I have no interest in that, so it’s tiring, especially when it’s inserted in the comments of completely unrelated posts.

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expr@programming.dev ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
The world is political.

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OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Despite everything people here says, you’re probably not going to get a community without politics

Lemmy was born from politics, grew from politics and the largest communities are about politics

Your best bet is to leave if you’re sick of it (Lemmy is essentially stuck with politics forever) or get used to it and use some filters to prevent the worst

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- CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al is no politics! We’re a trans+ inclusive women’s only group though.
  
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Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
Its not. We have cat pics as well.

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frog_brawler@lemmy.world ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
Welcome to 2025

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Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Well I would push for a gunpla and modelmaking sub, but… people all over the world are dying to conservative political stances and authoritarianism.

So, do we talk about building plastic models or the death of innocents? Some would say both, but many of us know it’s hard to focus on hobby topics when it seems like Revelations might kick off at any given moment.

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nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
remove all of the news communities from your feed and try again

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daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Welcome to the internet.

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Piatro@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There’s probably a correlation between people who are aware enough of reddit’s practices and policies to want to switch to Lemmy and people who are engaged in or by political discussion.

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- dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’d say lemmy has a stronger “fuck the system” vibe, whatever the topic. Privacy, trans rights, environmental issues, financial oligarchy…
  
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  - fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Even the system supporters pretend they don’t these days
    
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- givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Not to mention almost everything is political these days…
  
  Like, the root cause of most our issues are political and there’s a lot of issues. So it shouldn’t be surprising most topics are tied back to it.
  
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  - LMurch@thelemmy.club ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    When 1/3 of the country makes the president their entire personality, and hate the other 70%, whether they are LGBTQ, minority, democrats, or just women, it’s going to be hard to avoid politics.
    
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- timeless@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I discovered Lemmy by looking for a Reddit like place where it’s easier to post to (doesn’t have 1 billion filters and rules).
  
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  - rabber@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    And if you tell other normal people to come here eventually this place will become less extremist
    
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- peregrin5@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yes, Lemmy is probably 60% people who were banned from Reddit for being overly political.
  
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  - SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    “I want rights”
    
    “I want to not be an open air slave to the billionaires”
    
    “I recognize some deep systemic flaws of our systems”
    
    I guess that’s overly political.
    
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  - dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I didn’t get banned but I definitely would have by now if I’d stayed.
    
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Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Keyword filters my guy

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dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Everything is political. You’re just not aware of how the things you like are political.

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tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Stick your head in the sand if you want to, but as a trans woman, I need to know when I’m gonna get imprisoned for existing, and never see my family again.

Sorry to make things political.

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- Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This. A lot of ‘making everything about politics’ is the reaction of people whose very existence been politicized by those in power.
  
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- CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You wouldn’t be imprisoned. That would imply due process and habeas corpus.
  
  Enemies of the regime will be disappeared.
  
  I’m not trying to make you feel bad. I just think this is where we are at the moment and I have a hard time not thinking about it.
  
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  - tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, they’re wanting to suspend habeus corpus, so that’s utterly terrifying and I really hope my last moments aren’t spent personally witnessing the CECOT body pile in their backyard.
    
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  - scott@lemmy.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    They’re talking about suspending habeas corpus so…
    
    Regardless I still think they’re going to go after the unhoused more explicitly and use less explicit means to push trans people (and others they disapprove of) into that category in order to make excuses for the disappearancess. We shall see I suppose.
    
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- SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Apology not accepted. You don’t owe anybody apologies for that, ever. They should be apologizing to you.
  
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BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Maybe if some orange turd wasn’t busy fucking up everything from board games to airplanes politics wouldn’t come up so much.

Hard to have a conversation without it when there’s a massive tariff on every single product related to work, hobbies, and even just living.

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- themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It really is tough to talk about anything else, and even when you do talk about it, it’s more of an exasperated sigh than a conversation.
  
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  - NJSpradlin@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    In times like this, ‘anti-politicals’ would cry that even talking about LIVING is too political for them. Politics is living, folks, get off your armchair with your heads in the sand and take a look outside. Shits fucked up right now, and talking about how fucked up it is isn’t too ‘political’. Not talking about ‘politics’ is ignoring the world around you and how it affects the every day person.
    
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  - InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Exactly this. Sure it is exhausting, but it is necessary. Even more so with this current administration.
    
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- daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s not like tariffs are going to disappear only if people talk about them 24/7.
  
  Not expending all your mental energy in thinking about it and just enjoying life, hobbies and other topics is probably one of the best things you can do. Why do you think orange guy makes the statements he make. It’s not because he is stupid (even if you want to think he is stupid) is because he knows his opposition gets triggered by it. And if you are constantly thinking about it you’ll destroy your mental health and the mental health of those around you. Exhaustion is their goal.
  
  Just live life.
  
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  - BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The problem is that they’re actively impacting your ability to participate in many hobbies, or eating up funds on necessities that force you to forgo other things entirely. It’s not that we’re just repeating “tariffs bad” when talking about them, it’s that they’re actually factoring into decisions being made in order to live our life.
    
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- ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I was on a discussion board for anime figurines and people started posting screenshots of their order checkouts showing tariffs nearly doubling the cost of their order. That caused a conundrum because people started talking politics and that’s not allowed according to the board rules. But what are people supposed to do? Can they talk about increased prices or is that political? Do they just have to pretend prices have skyrocketed for no reason at all? Can they even mention prices are higher than before?
  
  If you don’t restrict things then you’re allowing discussion of politics. If you do restrict things then you’re preventing normal discussion because of politics. It’s unavoidable.
  
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  - BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Even something as simple as suggesting “Hey, these figures are made in Vietnam instead of China, so they’re lower cost right now” is political. It is, as you said unavoidable.
    
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MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Well you can filter them out, ya

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SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t want to be political, but the government decided that me existing should be illegal. So now me posting about fashion or makeup or whatever is automatically political now.

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SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Because shit’s really fucked up right now and needs to be fixed.

You’re like one of those people in a world war, “why is everyone so political?”

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- jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Thats not politics. That’s news.
  
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jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is a time of political crisis. The US government is upending decades of alliances and economics. The right wing is globally on the rise, and that means people’s lives are in danger. The environment is becoming more unpredictable and less supportive for humanity.

There’s a lot of important political shit to talk about. If we were living in a boring utopia, there’d be less, probably.

Also, what do you even consider “political”? Some people will tell you that a story about a man and a woman getting married isn’t political, but a story about two men getting married is. That’s a really low quality analysis there.

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MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Lemmy suffers from the “alt-tech curse” in that since there is perfectly serviceable, normie friendly tech, for someone to come to the alternative you have to be not so normie.

Gab, Parler, Voat back in the day, Mastodon and Lemmy, bluesky, etc are all part of the same phenomenon of micro-exodi from established sites due to fitting poorly with existing moderation which, given the fact normies still use the sites, means we’re always looking at extremists of some kind.

Whether it’s the tankies on lemmy.ml, or the progs on bluesky, or the tradcons on parler and gab, it’s always some group being told “if you don’t like it here go make your own” and them doing it.

The problem is this makes these environments extremely off-putting to normies as every single motherfucker on each of these platforms has at least a Bachelor’s degree in scaring the hoes.

The reality is, if you want normie content, you’re gonna find it on platforms used by normies.

Lemmy is too niche to have karma farming bots reposting the same shit every hour, so cat videos etc are in short supply, and most of the people who do participate here have scary levels of politics brainrot.

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- SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Semi-related, this is what happened to onlyfans. It was basically the exact same concept as patreon, the only difference being that NSFW stuff was allowed. The result is it became ONLY PORN.
  
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nibble4bits@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is a time where it’s hard to be away from politics. I switched to all tech news after the U.S. election, and the tariffs are strongly influencing the supply and demand, and the convict is skewing crypto ponzi schemes in his personal favor which has a lot of influence on hardware. He has Musk that’s trying to influence hard on AI which also impacts a lot of our hardware.

Can’t fucking get away from it, really.

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dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You privilege is showing.

Whenever someone claims to be “apolitical”, or wants something to “not be political”, is because they are looking at it from a position of privilege where the status quo doesn’t hurt or challenges them. They also can’t see the oppression, hurt or risk that said think exerts on others, minorities, or social pariahs.

Non-political is a mythical creature. It exists as a safe haven to lure the insensitive into apathetic inaction. Nothing is apolitical because existing as a human being is itself political.

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- some_random_nick@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  To be fair, most politics on Lemmy is US-centric politics. Second is EU-centric.
  
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dukeofdummies@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Well, a lot of people jumped ship from other platforms because of politics. So they’re gonna be here.

It’s a time where politics are fucking with all of us, so it’s topical.

reddit still exists and has a larger base, so if you want to talk about stardew valley, just by the nature of numbers that’s where they’re gonna gather.

There are a lot of “lurkers” here, not a lot of posters. Seriously, notice how often The Picard Maneuver, or Stamets keeps popping up.

God I hate to be the guy who says this especially because I am ABSOLUTELY being hypocritical right now, but you gotta be the change you want.
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MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Lemmy is mostly populated by intelligent people (include yourself if applicable) that fled reddit when the app crackdown began.

As such we talk and some of that talk covers the current situation in the world of politics.

If you don’t want to see any there are plenty of subs you can use.

You can also do what I do which is block the orange turnips name so you don’t see the posts.

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- Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Lemmy is mostly populated by intelligent people
  
  Hey I will not accept such slander!! I’m an idiot!
  
  (include yourself if applicable)
  
  Oh nevermind, carry on. :P
  
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  - Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You outed yourself by demonstrating reading comprehension, sorry
    
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- timeless@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Can I block a term? How?
  
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  - ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Some apps (e.g. Voyager/Thunder) and web frontends (Tesseract? not sure which tbh) enable keyword filtering.
    
    In the case of the apps, it’s found in settings under filters & blocks or filters, respectively. Unfortunately I can’t recall which web frontends enable it for sure, but I do remember there seemed to be fewer of them that did last I checked.
    
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  - Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Content Filters. There’s are lot of communities dedicated to lemmy how to’s and it’s kinda dependent on the app you use where to click specifically.
    
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  - Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    lemmy.ca##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(“/trump/i”))
    
    Put that into your ablocker custom rules.
    
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- abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Percieved intelligence is subjective. See this paper where 65% of Americans think they are smarter than average. The math doesn’t add up.
  
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  - Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, but like, I’m smart enough to know I’m not in that 65%, because I’m smarter than average.
    
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Everything is about politics now. I watch space, aviation, and car stuff on YT and they’ve all had episodes that start off with “I try to avoid politics but the tariffs/whatever is having a big effect on this industry so I have to talk about it.”

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- CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Everything is political. Always has been. Only difference is people’s money is getting affected so it’s unignorable. Mind you when it’s racism, sexism, oppression, genocide it’s all ignorable. But God forbid you get in the way of people’s money.
  
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  - Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes I agree that the world is terrible and we will all die angry and frustrated because these psychotic apes can’t just get along.
    
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- fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I predict a huge leftwing shift among apolitical people since it’s bleeding into things people who don’t read the news experience
  
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propofool@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
lemmynsfw.world doesn’t have that much politics …

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- Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I mean, they have political stances, for example, they think people should be able to access porn, trans and gay people are ok, cartoon porn is not the same as CP, and similar things.
  
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  - MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    But Loli porn is the same a CP there
    
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jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is a link sharing platform. Primarily links to news articles.

Don’t conflate politics to reading the news. If you have no interest in reading the news, you probably shouldn’t be on a link sharing site.

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- blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Not true at all. On the other site you can curate subs so your feed consists entirely of puppies and pottery tips.
  
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  - jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Abomination. That shit should be banned. I report them to mods.
    
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twinnie@feddit.uk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m not against some political stuff but there’s so much circlejerk opinion pieces that get posted. It’s just a bunch of people posting stuff that confirms their own beliefs, which is not better than what happens on the likes of Xitter. It’s just a different kind of echo chamber but people are okay with it because it’s left rather than right.

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- chunes@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s embarrassing how often the first paragraph of the article contradicts the title of the post. Then you look at the comments and 99% of them are blathering as if the title is true.
  
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spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Because you’re not filtering by your subscribed communities.

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Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s the zeitgeist right now. The world is falling to dystopia and it’s top of our minds in our communal ride down. But yeah, def nice to be able to disengage /engage with non-dystopia as needed to not go crazy.

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ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
No offense, but if you are an American adult and don’t understand why so many posts are political right now you probably need to be reading them. We are probably going through the most problematic power shift the world has seen in 100 years and if we The American People don’t start fighting back substantially we are looking at losing most of our rights as free citizens.

It’s that fucking serious.

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- SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Nope, head in sand and complain through anis.
  
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OmegaMan@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
We’re all kind of living in hell because of our disfunctional system and fearful countrymen. So we’re just kinda trying to cope together by commiserating.

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SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Everything is political

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