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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...
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".
Everything is politics. Avoiding thinking about or discussing consequential things is a political position which is well served almost everywhere else on the internet.
Drop some cool memes into lemmy and make it better for all of us.
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.
Lemmy is part of the fediverse. On the fediverse you are your own algorithm. So either you have curated your feed to be very political or you're on the local feed of your instance, which has a lot of political posts. But you signed up there.
Either way, you're there by choice. Curate your own feed. I get lots of stuff that isn't political. Just keep in mind you don't get reddit user numbers over here so not every niche nonpolitical subject has found a viable community. Yet.
Not enough people that aren't interested in politics present here to engage more actively in non-political communities. Lemmy or PieFed still haven't reached even 1 million of users. While Reddit in glory days had dozens of millions users(not bots).
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
Lol, downvotes because you are doing the smart thing.
If I'd do that, I could look at my feed weekly and scroll through it in 60min max.
Not too unhealthy but not what I want to use it for.
If I can frame this a different way β I wish interest-driven discovery had a little less friction on lemmy/in fediverse. I donβt assume itβs not there. I just havenβt found it yet.
When was the reddit exodus?
Besides politics it's mostly technology, and humour. That's basically because only a very specific kind of person has chosen to be on Lemmy, at this point.
Here's a couple at random that are humour:
!antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
!reallyshittycopper@lemmy.world
And here's a couple that are something else:
You'll notice it's mostly .world, because that's by far the biggest instance, and also not very political.
I wish r/highqualitygifs would migrate to Lemmy.
Because politics has broad "appeal" and people are passionate about it. It's also a form of propaganda. Different communities will use/abuse their power to influence how their users view issues.
I find Lemmy to have barely any politics. I'm new to Lemmy though. If you haven't been on Reddit lately, go visit that propaganda machine.
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.