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Maybe everything is political, but I blocked US politics communities, and the experience is more enjoyable now.
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Submitted 10 months ago by timeless@lemmy.ca to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Lot of good advice here about curation, thats definitely an option to leverage your subscribed feed.
Another option, is to remove yourself from the largest server (lemmy world), look at your options on other instances, theres hundreds. The label to the right of usernames should denote what instance people are connecting from.
Some examples are blahaj, midwest.social, sopuli, feddit…
The links below have lists of a lot of the available instances,
Advantages of Choosing a Smaller Server
The experience of the ‘Local’ tab seems to be genuinely different from Lemmy World.
Lemmy World probably doesn’t look too different whether you sort by the ‘all’ tab or ‘local’ tab, so you really only have the ‘subscribe’ tab to find and hone your niche on the network.
Going for a smaller, but active in its own right, instance means you suddenly have a ‘local’ tab that is highly differentiated from the wider lemmy network, andgoing along with that its often a bit less political.
I’d use my own as an example here, but we’ve just had a major election in Australia, so its been pretty political lately, i’m expecting that to subside now that the chooks are counted.
Irelephant@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Try piefed.social – on onboarding it asks if you want to see politics.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 10 months ago
First: allow me to welcome all new members of LEMMY.
Seriously, whatever flavor you are federating from. And pardon me I have not read this entire thread of replies but I hope it is full of nothing but welcome!
Not all of Lemmy is political. A lot is though, so I can imagine that it may seem charged.
But what’s really happening here is that everything is… transparent. That’s why I’m here. If there is bias, it’s visible.
The trouble with the corporate alternatives is that their hidden bias is: control. Pardon the politics even here, but the fact is our society has never reflected a situation where one group exercises dictatorial control over almost everyone with complete immunity.
Because with all their creepy animated emoji things and predictive analytics they are putting folks asleep. Wake, work, isolate, Sleep. This is the bias of corporate social media. Emphasis on isolate.
So… welcome…
And enjoy. It’s nice to be a part of a place where people are more awake.
But under all interactions should be the vibe that we all in this together.
So welcome. Enjoy. Find you place and your people. Ignore posts that alarm or annoy you.
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s always been political, you were just in a more comfortable for you political space. Typically you don’t notice the politics when that’s just life and your own values.
TypicalHog@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It’s because Lemmy mainly consists of hyper-frustrated leftists who treat it as their safe space echo chamber.
MBech@feddit.dk 10 months ago
There’s good reason to be a hyper-frustrated leftist in this shitty world. Not sure I see it as a safe space echo chamber though. Everyone is welcome to join and voice their opinion as long as they aren’t being racists, bigots or spreading disinformation on most instances. Problem is that the right wing around the world only really has one policy, and that’s being racist biggots who try to spread fear and hate while denying simple scientific facts and data.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 months 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.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Its not. We have cat pics as well.
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
We need more active guitar forums, but it’s still better than Reddit has become.
loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
And porn!
expr@programming.dev 10 months ago
The world is political.
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Especially now.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Welcome to 2025
daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Welcome to the internet.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 10 months 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
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Filter out the politics, and join a bunch of other forums instead.
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 10 months ago
!WomensStuff@lazysoci.al is no politics! We’re a trans+ inclusive women’s only group though.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 months ago
???
Trans rights aren’t political?
Women’s rights isn’t political?
tehmics@lemmy.world 10 months ago
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
remove all of the news communities from your feed and try again
MITM0@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well you can filter them out, ya
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 10 months 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.
Fleur_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Keyword filters my guy
nibble4bits@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months 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.
0oWow@lemmy.world 10 months 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).
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 months 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.
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months ago
Typical lemmy trollop, ignoring the blatantly obvious point made to go on some nonsense tangent.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 10 months ago
I have quite extensive content filter list that hides every post containing popular terms related to US politics. Often that means hiding two thirds of my front page. However, what remains is still all politics.
Why is it like this? I have no idea. Maybe they’re trying to keep this place as unattractive for new users as possible.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
Everything is political. You’re just not aware of how the things you like are political.
propofool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
lemmynsfw.world doesn’t have that much politics …
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 10 months 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.
blarghly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not true at all. On the other site you can curate subs so your feed consists entirely of puppies and pottery tips.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Abomination. That shit should be banned. I report them to mods.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months 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.
dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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Well, a lot of people jumped ship from other platforms because of politics. So they’re gonna be here.
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It’s a time where politics are fucking with all of us, so it’s topical.
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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.
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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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OmegaMan@lemmings.world 10 months 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.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The block button is your responsibility. Use it frequently and this place is great. I’ve blocked loads of communities and now the only problem with my page is when I run out of content and everything goes all German.
njm1314@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months 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.
steeznson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lemmy hasn’t quite reached the critical mass to have completely insane subs like /r/gangstalking or whatever. People here tend to have quite niche interests but relatively normal nerd ones. Some accounts are basically single-issue posters who have some political pet view that they shoehorn in everywhere.