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.

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 is not. Subscribe to the feeds you want the view only subscribed. There are several views.

Because:

Everything is politics. The moment you think otherwise you become part of the problem.

Why is all of Lemmy politics?

Do you know why the Lemmy platform and the lemmy.ml instance were created in the first place?

• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy
• What is lemmy.ml?

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.

You're on .ml it's literally Marxist Leninist. You're like an American standing in Mexico complaining about everyone speaking Spanish.

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.

I have been here since the Reddit exodus

Presumably, you left for political reasons?

Lemmy (and other fediverse services) users are mostly here because we have some strong opinions about mainstream social media, and those opinions are tied closely to politics these days.

If we didn't, we'd probably be on Reddit, xitter, Facebook, etc. instead.

And if you get a bunch of people with strong opinions about something together, there's a good chance the conversation is going to go in that direction sooner or later.

And like others have said, everything is politics, basically every aspect of life can be tied to politics in some way.

And there is a lot of political stuff going on all around the world that everyone really should be concerned about and following, and there's a lot to discuss about it.

And I get it, it can be exhausting. I definitely wish I lived in a world where I didn't have to pay as much attention to politics as I do.

The best thing you can do is to be active in communities you want to see have more activity. If no one's posting the kind of "non-political" content you want to see, be the person posting it, if you build it they will come. Be the change you want to see.

In general, all Lemmy servers have the same content as every other one because they're federated. There are some cases where instances have defederated from each other, and admins have done bans and such that I think may change what content is available to you

Also you're on .ml, which is a pretty explicitly political instance. I don't know all the technical details but I'm also under the impression that the mods and admins there are pretty quick to bring their ban-hammer down hard on people who disagree with them, so that could potentially be having some effect of what you're able to see, though things are certainly looking pretty political from over here on .world too.

You can't find depth and deep subject matter in politics? Sounds like a you problem

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.

Sorry, everything is politics not just on lemmy

Be the content you want to see.

Also, it's odd to equate deep subject matter with a lack of politics.

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.

Luckily you can choose what you see. If you don't like politics, just block it or don't subscribe to it. I just checked and my scaled main page is 17:3 non-politics to politics posts. (One of the 3 is this post here)

Something missing from this discussion (that I’ve read) is the size of Lemmy. On a much larger platform you can have 6 different flavours of meme communities or tech communities where there are rules banning political news etc but there’s simply not enough people here to split communities.

It also means that smaller communities, like video game specific communities, have all but died off as the couple of people that started them have lost interest or left Lemmy.

While I get some of the arguments I’ve seen against trying to grow Lemmy these small communities are doomed without a dedicated passionate following and places based around niche topics are never going to survive in such a small space.

With all that said; politics are universal and touch on pretty much every aspect of our lives so political topics come up in every community, even small ones and especially one as politically charged as Lemmy.

Sure, there's a lot of politics on here but definitely not all of Lemmy is about politics... If you dislike politics, I suggest you block Lemmy communities with politics in them if you dislike to that extent... Or you could just not subscribe to any such communities and stick to "Home" or "Subscribed" which will only give you content from communities you're subscribed with.

lemmy was created by the people who used to inhabit r/politics; r/socialism; r/communism; r/linux; and r/foss and they coalesced around lemmy.ml

lemmy.world has the bread-and-circuses that you're looking for.

Because all media is political

This is a bit, right?

Depends on what you define as "politics" but aside from "everything is politics", my Lemmy feed is mostly tech stuff. Just subscribe to communities that fit your interests. That being said, many interests will be under-represented on Lemmy as I think the user base skews either technical or political or both.

I almost never see politics in my feed. But Lemmy itself was created by leftist communists, it was never built to be a politics free space

It takes manual curation if you want to avoid it

I swear my feed is like 50% Trump

Trump trump trump I’m fucking sick of it

I think this is about when you browse more than anything else. A significant portion of posts on Lemmy are posted by serial posters. If you don't browse when they post their stuff, you could think it's all us news bots

I mean it depends on what subs you subscribe to; my subscribed feed is mostly tech, history, and wholesome news.

But politics will tend to bubble up because gestures around

Ironically, due the nature of the language used in their complaint and its similarity to psychological operations conducted by COINTELPRO, @OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml seems "shallow and politically motivated".

I had to block countless politic communities by hand. Now I see a normal amount of posts, and not just that.

Also, block by word like 'Elon', 'Musk', 'Trump' etc...

Everything is politics. Avoiding thinking about or discussing consequential things is a political position which is well served almost everywhere else on the internet.

Every time I see a politics news or comic or meme I block that community. It's great my entire feed is fun stuff and cool art

Change your instance. A lot of the content you see will depend on the instance you are in. ML is notorious for politics and I'm leaving it at that.

But also keep in mind politics are an important part of life and it's impossible to fully remove that. Especially with a tense political climate as it is right now.

Try other instances. No one forbids you from creating new accounts and explore other instances. And no one prohibits you from leaving completely lemmy.ml either.

Drop some cool memes into lemmy and make it better for all of us.