Seriously every other post, every sub seems like nothing but politics. It’s so boring and disgusting. What made reddit great at one time was the diversity of genres and depth. Lemmy is very shallow and politically motivated it seems. I have been here since the Reddit exodus. It’s always been this way.

Do different Lemmy servers have different content?

Are certain severs curated?

Where do I find the depth and deep subject matter.

  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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.

  • amaryllisfever@lemmychan.org
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    1 month ago

    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.

  • somethingDotExe@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I also think it is the times we live in right now. The world is in shambles, not too weird everyone is very political motivated right now. Just wait untill times settle. Then you’ll see the political interest go way down again. But yeah. I am missing reddit on the sports forum part. There is dead.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      There is a degree of anount.
      I’d say my Reddit subs are similarly set up to my Lemmy communities.
      My feed is 80% (US) politics or (F)OSS politics even on stuff that is neither of them in the first place.
      Reddit on the other hand was more like 20% potentially political, 75% random stuff like memes or niche sub posts and 5% political/story time subs.

      Sadly the reddit feed became almost unusable. The r/sysadmin feed is atrocious.

    • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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      1 month ago

      This. Fuck man this world is so spoiled by a long peace that people don’t fucking understand the stakes anymore.

      Apparently we are rapidly approaching another period of time where just nicely begging people to take this shit seriously isn’t enough and we are going to have to kill a hundred million people or so for another generation can learn this same fucking lesson we’ve been repeating for some 40,000 years.

      But no, Love Island is on, so feel free to ignore the incipient fascism bearing down on you and condemn your children to a world where that won’t be possible.

  • flatbield@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 month ago

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

    • gkak.laₛ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 month ago

      This! I also configured my client to hide posts with ~10 keywords (trump, ice, kills, etc), and my feed suddenly had a much more diverse set of topics. Usually there is a common keyword between topics you’d want to see less of; you just need to keep it in mind while you’re browsing so you can find it!

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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

  • homologous@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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

    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      It’s especially tiring, but important to keep up with, when you have some asshole threatening the entire world.

      There was a lot less political stuff when Biden was president.

  • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

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

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
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    1 month ago

    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.

  • Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    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…