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.
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.
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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.
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:
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I have been here since the Reddit exodus
Presumably, you left for political reasons?
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.
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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.
your kind of politics is status-quo-enjoyer
Thank you for telling me what my kind of politics is.
Do I owe you a fee for the diagnosis?
Be the content you want to see.
Also, it’s odd to equate deep subject matter with a lack of politics.
OP is not the only one who has noticed a lot of content on here is shallow&political
Politics is just things i consider controversial.
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.
