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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Abomination. That shit should be banned. I report them to mods.

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• PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Lemmy was originally founded by political extremists who wantted a space for their politics (tankies.) Its since grown past that, but that inflence is still present in many ways, most prominently in the influences of .ml. On top of this, politics is something inflammatory (and thus engaging) that affects everyone. Because its both engaging and broad-appeal, its going to be something everyone talks about. On the other hand, many niches, aside from being niche are often less inherently engaging (IE talking about a finished TV show). This makes it very hard to get the critical mass needed for a community to snowball into relevance. This means that (effectively) all you’re left with is the political communities and a couple niches that are broad appeal enough and have active enough users to be stable.

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• cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Politics is life. The days of being able to hide from politics were ended by Donald Trump. You may be able to ignore politics again someday far in the future, but right now, politics is very interested in you and any attempts to ignore it will be at your own peril, because politics does not like being ignored.

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• propofool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  lemmynsfw.world doesn’t have that much politics …

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But Loli porn is the same a CP there

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• OmegaMan@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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• farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Politics affects every facet of life. Not being concerned with or effected by political shifts is a privelege. Just by moderators deciding what topics are and aren’t policical they are enforcing their political views onto the community. You see it constantly on reddit where someone posts something innoccuous then the mods lock the thread and ban further discussion.

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• count_dongulus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Idk, but I use Boost and added some keyword filters. Stuff like “trump”, “musk”, “israel”, “slam”, etc. And any time I still run across political crap, I either block the community or the user. Lemmy has been great now afterwards, no politics.

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• yum_burnt_toast@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  a lot of people here migrated from reddit for political reasons, so a lot of the communities have been set up by those who tend to view things in a political way. it also seems that the general climate in the united states, where a large amount of the english language content is made, views nearly everything as political, either caused or reinforced by american politics dominating most forms of media.

  it also cant be discounted that there are certain users whose sole motivation for posting in any community is either bait or propaganda, which can spoil any community that does not have very active moderation or rules prohibiting political posts or comments.

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  • timeless@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • yum_burnt_toast@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      there is nothing to feel excited or hopeful about from american progressives at the moment, so it is all cope posting. i am more disheartened by posts like the one that showed up the other day eith a link to a supposed story about a cybertruck owner who complained that he got laughed at by children. it is not news, it is not worthwhile, it has not enriched the lives of anyone who read it. it is an outlet to expend political energy for those who dont know what else to do. politics are unavoidable, and complaining about politics is natural and can be cathartic, but at this level it is drain that is part of a trumps political strategy.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Because Trump is president, and Republicans have the Senate, House, and SC…

      Like, they have all the “checks and balances” that are supposed to save us from a president like trump. But they’re not using them.

      Do you want to see more articles about what the left is doing?

      Post them.

      It’s that easy

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Because the majority of Lemmy users are American and the United States is in the process of collapsing, or at the very least, steep decline. So it’s kind of the primary topic of discussion.

  If you don’t like it, you can edit your feed to only show the subs you want. It’s pretty easy.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The short answer is Lemmy has a theoretically near-infinite number of communities and no “engagement algorithm” so it’s up to us to curate what we want to see by blocking the communities we know we’ll never read, or, in some cases, blocking users that we can’t stand.

  (Alternately you could curate just the comms you want and only browse “Home” communities)

  If you want no politics there’s a number of hobbyist and nature-oriented communities, I’d start there.

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  • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I find that I want some politics, and the politics that leaks into News and elsewhere is just about right. I un-subbed from anything specifically with the word politics in it and I mostly avoid .ml, and generally I find it very pleasant around here.

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• jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Political discussions online rarely lead to satisfying resolutions. As a result, political discussions bleed into everyday discussion in the desperate hope that something, somewhere, will magically make sense.

  Similarly, when businesses have meetings that don’t actually resolve matters, every meeting becomes a desperate chance to discuss things that matter in the hopes they’ll be resolved, so then every meeting that needs to happen will happen during every scheduled meeting, even wrhb ostensibly unrelated. This continues until meeting culture changes and even overall communication culture changes.

  It seems natural and reasonable in such an environment for many people (like you) to want to disengage. Why continue doing something that never seems to lead to resolution?

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• Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The choice to be on open-source, community-owned social media rather than corporate owned platforms is, itself, a political choice, and one that, in the absence of other focuses for discussion, will attract politically outspoken people. With no other core community here to focus discussion, everything will fall back to the things most people here have in common: FOSS, anti-corporate sentiments, etc., all of which are themselves inherently political topics.

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• cRazi_man@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Lemmy is too small and insular. Only mainstream (politics) or echo chamber (Linux) content gets enough momentum.

  Reddit was large enough that you could shun the main communities and still find enough content in really niche communities.

  People also don’t stick to designated communities and posts overflow to all sorts of places. I block all politics, but want to see memes. But all the meme communities are overflowing with political memes.

  It’s a difficult time politically too, and Lemmy (socially liberal) is very much against incumbents (conservative nationalists) in most parts of the world.

  My advice would be to expect little relevant content. Use an app that let’s you block things (I like Boost). Block all the communities and keywords you want (Trump, parliament, elections, Ukraine, etc etc). Ultimately cut back on social media use as it will always focus on politics. Go directly to sites that cover content you like.

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• toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  this is what you get when the loudest mouth on earth gets a second chance to make everything political.

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• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Because we’re all a victim to the propaganda that has molded the modern Internet into what it is today

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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  First, That’s what happens when you’re living under a dictator.

  Second, even in normal times, everything is political. How much you get paid, and how your boss treats you, and how banks work, and how the roads look, and everything else you see is the result of a political choice.

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well there are a lot of factors, and there are plenty of Niche communities you could pay attention to more often, but the most overwhelmingly significant factor is that shits really fucking bad right now. Like yeah we all wish we could live in a in a time where politics was boring and not life-threatening but that’s not how the world is at the moment. You just can’t escape reality. But you have to physically ignore things to try to remove politics from your world. I don’t even know how it’s possible, everything is being touched right now by politics, everything.

  Unfortunately the vast majority of us are not privileged enough to be able to ignore politics in our lives.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Dude. Politics is huge right now because we’re going through a tough time globally. It’s a lot of people justifying cruelty and invasions.

  These were the hot topics so that’s what grew fastest. Remember that Lemmy is still kinda new.

  I know that if I need an oura-/smart ring community I can either wait or I can start one. I’m not gonna start one as it’d be negligent of me.

  What do you want to see? What do you not? Find or start what you want, and block what you do not.

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• Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Are you subscribing to federated communities?

  You have to take steps to do that. Otherwise you’re left at the mercy of your home instance, which may have a greater proportion of politically-concerned communities and commenters.

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• Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Its not. We have cat pics as well.

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  • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We need more active guitar forums, but it’s still better than Reddit has become.

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  • loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And porn!

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Block communities you don’t want to see. Browse and look for communities that aren’t currently hitting your front page and subscribe. Yesterday, I discovered one that was right up my alley that I hadn’t seen after nearly two years on Lemmy.

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• AugustWest@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It only is if you want it to be. Subscribe to what you like and that isn’t your will see if you only view those things.

  Use scaled as a sort occasionally to see other posts in your subscriptions. I switch back and forth.

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• Jeffool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  All I can say is be the change you want to see. Submit posts, maybe mod a community. I’m doing !gamedev, and it gets political sometimes, like any career field, but it is what it is.

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I only see politics on the few explicitly political and news munis I’ve subbed.

  Are you browsing by ‘all’? If so, switch to ‘subscribed’ and it’ll prolly fix 95% of it for you.

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• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Everything’s political these days. It reflects reality

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• morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  When politicians make it illegal for certain groups of people to exist, that oppression kind of takes precedence over other things.

  Unless you believe yourself above such peasantry.

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• ns1@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This post has a list of casual communities which might help: lemmy.world/post/2216085

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  remove all of the news communities from your feed and try again

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• 0oWow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I also did not come here for politics.

  I came here as an alternative to reddit.

  What I did to fix it was to find similar Lemmy communities to those subreddits. I also set up filtering to block out key words, names, etc.

  It makes it a lot more bearable.

  One thing I’ve noticed, Lemmy and Reddit are run in a large part by content bots when it comes to non-politics. There are some exceptions. I recommend you make peace with the bots and appreciate the content (all the while contributing content yourself of course).

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I also did not come here for politics.

    I came here as an alternative to reddit.

    Abandoning corporate enshittification and censorship is politics btw.

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    • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Typical lemmy trollop, ignoring the blatantly obvious point made to go on some nonsense tangent.

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• hisao@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maybe it’s just your subscriptions? I don’t feel the same way. Just curate your list more actively and make sure to browse communities from global pool of instances.

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