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.
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
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
The post isn’t beating the allegations. Wanting to avoid political discussions is inherently political.
You’re setting up a rhetorical double-bind
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 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.
Because everything is politics
Most of us aren’t so privileged that we get to pretend that politics doesn’t control and shape the course of our lives.
Raising quality of life for all human beings will inevitably result in more people who can share your online hobby discussions. Time to get on board
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.
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.
The main reason people moved out of reddit was a political one lol, of course we are going to get political here.
“why do people care so much about the possibility of nuclear war? why is this hitler guy so controversial? so disgusting!”
Because:
This is a bit, right?
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.
Drop some cool memes into lemmy and make it better for all of us.
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.
Because all media is political
