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Oh, this is absolutely hilarious.

You're totally right tbh, such types are ideally gonna go elsewhere for their freeze peach.

Yeah, I told a guy today his hate of communism was totally his own prerogative, but he might want to put it aside to make a unified front against the impending Reddit changes. He flipped out on me and called me some choice words. Just another day on Reddit I guess.

I dunno, "too political" can just mean people don't want every discussion to devolve into politics. Having these strong left communities front and center can give that impression. I don't need to read a low effort "capitalism bad" on every topic. I hope this doesn't devolve into that, but filtering out the politically apathetic sends us in direction for that to happen.

While I generally agree with the sentiment that people who do not care about politics because it does not affect them are sometimes bad people. I think it's also worth noting that apathy towards politics can be born out of ignorance and not malice. To that degree, we need to inform and make people around us conscious of issues.

PS : I'm not saying that people should be forced to take on that role as it can be very draining but to some degree, it is the only way for people to change and I believe it is worthwhile to do.

PPS : I'm also not saying that this means we should invite intolerant people to change their minds or anything like that.

I just want to find communities for things that interest me. Politics isn't one of them, but I understand that this is a new thing and that it will take some time. General interest communities will eventually be just as big here as they were at reddit. Besides, if there's a community that pops up on feed that I don't want to see, I'll just block it. No big

Online commies are the absolute worst. They made me realize I was an anarchist all along. It's incredible how much time they spend being angry about pointless shit that no one cares about, like people using slurs online. They can't help it but act like tiny dictators whenever they get the chance, by ganging up on anyone who doesn't subscribe to their specific flavor of groupthink. And the thing that irks me the most is that it's not even about left or right. It's not about the poor or the rich, or the means of production, or people being exploited, or anything tangentially related to the economy. It's all social justice. American identity politics. Issues that become less and less tangible the further you get from the anglosphere.

And they live in their echo chambers, and whenever their worldview is challenged they start posting insane takes like "Lemmy being functionally dead is actually good because I can't get offended on behalf of someone else if no one is posting anything"

I disagree. Lemmy is really lacking proper leadership. The current leadership while incredibly skilled and well intentioned really sucks at leading a project like this which is mostly because of their extreme political stances.

That being said, good riddance in this case. It's perfectly fine to miss out on some people and every instance has it's own right to moderate itself however it wants.

People like that guy either don't realize that choosing to allow slurs is also a political decision, or they do realize it and are simply cynical. I'm honestly not sure which.

I must admit since using reddit I've been sucked in to politics and some pretty shitty views / opinions. In all honesty I'd prefer to not see any politics here, but I've actually seen none so far. Most threads seem to stay on topic and don't tend to go off on some political spiral.