I joined Lemmy a few days ago and have been reading around. 90%+ of the content I see, even on non-politics related communities, is political in some way. I have no interest in that, so it’s tiring, especially when it’s inserted in the comments of completely unrelated posts.

  • TypicalHog@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    4 minutes ago

    It’s because Lemmy mainly consists of hyper-frustrated leftists who treat it as their safe space echo chamber.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    1·
    21 minutes ago

    First, That’s what happens when you’re living under a dictator.

    Second, even in normal times, everything is political. How much you get paid, and how your boss treats you, and how banks work, and how the roads look, and everything else you see is the result of a political choice.

  • Omega@discuss.online
    15·
    3 hours ago

    Despite everything people here says, you’re probably not going to get a community without politics

    Lemmy was born from politics, grew from politics and the largest communities are about politics

    Your best bet is to leave if you’re sick of it (Lemmy is essentially stuck with politics forever) or get used to it and use some filters to prevent the worst

  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
    10·
    4 hours ago

    Well I would push for a gunpla and modelmaking sub, but… people all over the world are dying to conservative political stances and authoritarianism.

    So, do we talk about building plastic models or the death of innocents? Some would say both, but many of us know it’s hard to focus on hobby topics when it seems like Revelations might kick off at any given moment.

    "Look what I made!-

    PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE

    RAMPANT FASCISM

    “n-nevermind…”

  • nibble4bits@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    12·
    9 hours ago

    This is a time where it’s hard to be away from politics. I switched to all tech news after the U.S. election, and the tariffs are strongly influencing the supply and demand, and the convict is skewing crypto ponzi schemes in his personal favor which has a lot of influence on hardware. He has Musk that’s trying to influence hard on AI which also impacts a lot of our hardware.

    Can’t fucking get away from it, really.

  • dukeofdummies@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    12 hours ago

    1. Well, a lot of people jumped ship from other platforms because of politics. So they’re gonna be here.

    2. It’s a time where politics are fucking with all of us, so it’s topical.

    3. reddit still exists and has a larger base, so if you want to talk about stardew valley, just by the nature of numbers that’s where they’re gonna gather.

    4. There are a lot of “lurkers” here, not a lot of posters. Seriously, notice how often The Picard Maneuver, or Stamets keeps popping up.

    God I hate to be the guy who says this especially because I am ABSOLUTELY being hypocritical right now, but you gotta be the change you want.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      8·
      10 hours ago

      I mean, they have political stances, for example, they think people should be able to access porn, trans and gay people are ok, cartoon porn is not the same as CP, and similar things.