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With Reddit just announcing ai mods for sub reddits I think it’s finally time I fully give it up. I’ve been slowly trying to transition back into the fediverse but damn is it hard sometimes. Listen I have left leaning politics but does every other post have to be about some political shit on the all tab, I feel like I’m forced into this box that is my subscribed feed or I have to actively search out new communities because all is just a political circle jerk that I don’t care about. Not to mention the moment I came back I saw a fucking flow chart on the instances drama of the week. If I wasn’t so dedicated to dropping Reddit I think the average Joe would have left by now seeing all of this. And YES I have been trying to be the change I want to see if you check my profile I regularly post in meme subs non political just funny memes to be like “lmao” and people can move about their day. I’m not saying there ISNT other type of content on lemmy or piefed it just feels like the stuff that floats to the top is political

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[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

What kind of posts are you looking for?

Because the upvotes are controlling what people want.

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's just the nature of Lemmy. It was built by tankies for tankies, and so this reflects on the user base. The politics here is a bubble and it's inescapable, unfortunately that's just a part of the package. You just have to deal with unhinged, misinformed, and extreme takes all the time. There are tools and strategies that can help you reduce the amount, but you can't get rid of it. Lemmy doesn't have the user base of Reddit where you can find big and active communities for everything. Outside of politics, subpar memes, and some niche tech stuff, there really isn't much else. However, I still think it's worth it for the privacy alone.

[–] eremophila@lemmy.zip -1 points 3 months ago

You just have to deal with unhinged, misinformed, and extreme takes all the time.

says 'tankie tankie tankie'

[–] Bu11ish@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I agree completely.

I see some people below saying "curate your feed". But this isn't viable because:

  • it takes too much effort, even for a statistically frequent user
  • doesn't work when you're logged out
  • and this is the most important part - I don't want to curate myself into an echo chamber.

The problem is with the user base. The user base is extremely susceptible to low effort rage baiting. It's full of immature kids and intellectually dishonest users.

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[–] aoidenpa@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Block politics and join femcelmemes.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The world is actively imploding. You desperately want to put your head in the sand, but you're bored down there, so you now want to pull your head out and have the rest of us maintain your childish illusion while you ignore objective reality. Grow up and scroll beyond posts you don't need

You're also showing yourself as confidently ignorant as you're angry, but also obviously aren't filtering certain communities or keywords that your sensitive eyes can't handle with your app. Again, grow up.

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[–] whoiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml -5 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Lemmy was created because of Reddit censoring political content.

If you don’t wanna see political stuff go to a different website.

The above is not a value judgement. If I did not want to be exposed to the sun and the public then I wouldn’t go to a park. If I did not want to be exposed to loud car sounds and screaming fans I wouldn’t go to the racetrack. It’s okay that you don’t want to see political stuff (you should think critically about what you think is political and why). You don’t need to go to lemmy or any other fediverse thing. You can just be a Redditor.

lovingly, with approval and understanding go away.

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