Absolutely, thank God I don’t live in America cause the politics seem crazy over there.
As an American, I agree. The common joke is that we’re living on the worst time line (a Community reference).
Well this is not an exclusive American thing.
I see Germany Italy Hungary France UK Turkey India Russia and Netherlands have entered the chat.
It’s the world’s most powerful military and largest economy, unfortunately for the rest of the world, we’re fucking nuts too.
Hey, don’t sell us short! We also tend to be ignorant and uneducated.
First past the post inevitably converges to a 2 party system, with all the frustrations that brings.
You see it as well in UK, Hungary, Turkey, …
Be carefull whenever someone suggests: the prime minister/president/… should come from the biggest party. It can take a few election cycles, but it ends up with a 2 party system, as that’s the dominant strategy.
Anything is better when all you engage with is mindless entertainment
I wish Lemmy was more entertaining, and not just a million Linux articles wearing a trenchcoat
Came to say this. Yeah. Echo chambers feel good, but they are trash-tier entertainment, like drugs.
Not unpopular. Lemmy politics is a garbage dump, the entire platform was created as a safe haven for commies and we’re still reeling from it, with many users (especially from .ml) sharing biased news and “memes” that are nothing but propaganda and DAE AMERICA BAD???
Having political takes isn’t necessarily a bad thing but when your entire personality is “capitalism is bad” then you’re an insufferable twat ruining the platform for everybody else
Having political takes isn’t necessarily a bad thing but when your entire personality is “capitalism is bad” then you’re an insufferable twat ruining the platform for everybody else.
Man that resonates…
But what if America good? Harris! - lemm .ee / world
Idk about all, but hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml are both unpleasant. I’m glad lemm.ee leaves it up to the user rather than censoring it from the instance level though
I like that connect let’s you block an instance and then has comments from users of said instance overwritten with a spoiler-type tag. That way you can decide to read those comments or not (I sometimes open them in non political threads).
Filtering out words in posts has worked well for me. I can still get news/politics in small doses without 90% of the noise
What the hell is left to browse after that?
Lemmy is small enough as it is.
I don’t disagree as such but, eh.
The obvious ones like cats, linux, and star trek but also meta-posts like these, comics, non-political memes, greentext, bikes, general technology. There are collapsniks and conservatives have been trying to settle recently. There’s a wide variety of niche content but they are small enough that for every 10 visitors you need someone to post something. There’s a lot here, it’s small compared to extremely large sites but is still an active message board.
You forgot LOTR and German memes!!!
I like comics, movies and the piracy communities… But even then like… Super quiet in there.
Even if you want that stuff, you get a much better perspective in World News and News communities.
Politics and PoliticalMemes is just a bunch of redditors who aren’t used to being in a non echo chamber social media platform.
Dnc shills
There isn’t a non political community here. Every mod of every community makes sure of it.
Mods sure seem to love the political posts in unrelated communities but God forbid you call a jerk a cuck.
Naw, they only like it when you are with them 100% on every detail of their extremes.
Lemmy is a group of closed in group thinking communities and if you don’t fit in they will remind you of it.
That generally holds true for life as well.
An allow list is easier than a block list
True
that it do
Cut off one head, two more grow in it’s place
No, Lemmy is better when you block all gaming, Linux, and anime
Edit: guess it’s an unpopular opinion, yay!
Leaving you with politics and porn? Hmmm…
Oh I forgot I already took out the porn
I still have
Cats, superb owls, various handicrafts, and of course all the political doom I can eat
Sir this is a Wendy’s
I block the antisemites, it narrows things down quite a bit
Wdym by antisemites? People who just hate Jews and discriminate towards them or people who are against Israel. Cause these are two different things
