Literally seen more whining about politics than I’ve seen politics.
Well… technically speaking: Isn’t “whining about politics” still “politics”?
If we follow that rabbit hole, OP has contributed to the exact issue they are ranting about.
Does your instance federate with Hexbear and Lemmygrad? Because I constantly have those people in my feed and it’s absolutely exhausting. I see more memes about burning the rich and starting a revolution than normal memes in my feed. I’m left-wing, but I’m not looking at memes to constantly be confronted with politics. Unfortunately instance blocking isn’t working well for me yet
Alas, yes it does, but idk, stop looking at shit memes.
Oh I wish to stop looking at shit memes, but if more than half of them are tankie crap it’s obviously going to degrade the experience
You need a better meme plug. I’d share my sources, but I don’t want them to get too popular, yaknow?
You wouldn’t know them, they go to another instance
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Your instance doesn’t affect what you see, except in cases of de-federation.
Do you read the comments too, or just scroll through the feed?
I’ve seen a sudden influx of memes all about this and I don’t know why. It’s suddenly the new trend and I don’t understand it.
I do. And it doesn’t phase me, just scroll on past, like that homeless man you ignore in the street.
I havent seen anyone talk about politics on programming.dev
Thank you, we’ll get right on it.
That’s right.
But only because “Vim vs Emacs” is a technically a religious holy war.
Nothing but holy wars there.
I’m immediately suspicious of people that don’t want to discuss politics in today’s world. You literally have to be a carefree ostrich.
Not really. I want to kick back and relax, why would i start discussing politics in my free time? I live in a state that is deeply entrenched in one side, so my opinion does not really matter
Sounds like you’re asking yourself a philosophical question. Some people actually care about things.
I guess not wanting to discuss it is okay considering that’s exhausting, but asking others not to is the dick move
Politics in a political or news sub is fine. Politics in, say, a technology sub or a gaming one is just annoying.
I think they prefer to be called “Austrians”
Arguing politics online has never solved anything. I have better uses of my energy than to argue politics with a bunch of faceless randoms that won’t accept anything less than total conformity.
Tell me how it’s “suspicious” to not want to read a post about Starfield, and have the comments be filled about politics because the game allows you to pick between he/him, she/her, and they/them?
It’s a game. Shut the fuck up about politics.
Umm how is that politics? I think you’re confused.
America has turned pronouns political. I think you’re confused.
Ahh ok any social issue that makes people uncomfortable is political.
I don’t think you understand what pronouns are.
I block a lot of folks. It’s nice.
this is EXACTLY what the OTHER PARTY would say!!!
To be honest, due to how this thread turned out, I’m not even able to distinguish if this is serious or sarcasm
Just to clarify, my general point, I am in no way against discussing politics. Be it in the political communities, or with the occasional meme. I fully realize the potential that memes have for initiating or reflecting on political discussion.
My point here is that I have a strong feeling that the comment section of seemingly non-divisive posts I’ve also fallen prey to the BuT eVeRyThInG iS PoLiTiCs hardliners. I fully realize that many, many topics can be seen as politically divisive, even if I don’t feel so myself. But I would like to make two points about this:
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And some posts, I get the feeling that the political discussion has absolutely nothing to do with the post body itself. It could be a picture of a beautiful sunrise, and someone suddenly starts talking about some American politician, and about how if it was up to that politician, we would never have sunrises again or something.
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Secondly, but very importantly: the level tends to be very low. People don’t know once we articulate their political opinion or reaction to another person’s political opinion, but it turns into this food fight-grade yes/no, strawman, whataboutism, etc. etc. It is my personal opinion that this takes away from most users lemmy experience, it does from mine anyway.
im being sarcastic.
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if people were to actually downvote politics that would help
If people actually upvoted good content and downvoted bad content, the front page of every default sub on Reddit wouldn’t be an endless sea of reposts.
I downvote whenever I see them, but it seems like there are more, or a loud few (maybe both), for every one of my downvotes. It’s not just here, it seems like this on /all too. To be more specific, it seems there are more trolls constantly watching and quicker on the keyboard for anything remotely political. It sucks that we need moderation in any capacity to enforce no politics on ‘no politics’ spaces…
I think it’s the world that’s been taken over, not by politics, but by a series of rich bastards not being held accountable for the crimes against society they’re regularly committing.
But either way I’d be MUCH happier to wish for all the porn to be removed from my feed when I dont even follow a single porn based sub. Or at the very least make sure it’s blurred.
Genie: so there are 5 rules
Well lemmy has a left lean and it’s currently small enough for it to spill into other communities.
I lean to the left myself. But it’s just nice to have a break every once in a while.
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Seriously. I’m suspicious and tired of people who can find a way to complain about Trump and Republicans or Biden and alleged Socialism in literally every single topic, no matter how unrelated it may be. I just want to laugh every once in a while.
Exactly! But everytime someone says this out come the but everything is politics warriors.
Not seen this yet, tbh. Politics in fact seem a rather rare topic outside of the US-centric posts?
Theres a block function in a lot of Lemmy apps.
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I meant taken over, but can’t change it now on mobile
It’s okay. We get it. But I see you’ve been scarred by those I mentioned in my other comment.
You know they’re still gonna come for you, though…
sniff sniff “Hark! Doth he hear a chance to feel better about thyself?” cracks knuckles
Thanks saltesc :)
And the Actually Guys.
finishes comment: That is a nice picture of a tree. Well done.
“There. Surely no one can possibly start dissecting it, straw manning it, or start arguing.”
An hour later, there’s three monumentally off-track replies raising points and arguing things no one fucking mentioned or ask for.
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Well ackhually this is a photograph, not a picture… ramble ramble, argument bait
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Akchually, that’s a shrub because… ramble ramble, argument bait
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Akchually, you’re wrong. It would’ve been “nice” if… ramble ramble, argument bait
NO ONE…FUCKING…CARES. FUCK OFF.
Actually, you’re displaying an aggressively incurious attitude, which is not the virtue you seem to think it is 😛
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With all the garbage, unrelated, and no-effort posts that get dumped in this community and then upvoted hundreds of times, it’s hilarious that political memes, which are actually memes, are where people draw the line.
Just to clarify, my meme was more about Lemmy in general, also not the posts themselves but that the comment sections of all kind of things suddenly become (in my view unnecessarily) politically divisive. It just escalates quickly.
