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Sometimes I want it, sometimes I don't.

It'd be nice if I could collect channels into custom feeds, so I could have a separate feed for my political channels. And if those feeds could be shareable

You are not alone. This place often feels like an astroturfed propaganda disbursement machine, even with a lot of filters and block lists.

I'm more tired of dozens of reposts of the same porn that I can't filter out because NSFW is a catch-all for anything 18+. I also have an issue with the quality of the said porn :-P

People who complain about content on lemmy should probably just look for different communities. Or maybe not be psychotic right-wingers looking for 8chan edgelord content.

The amount of hate I get every time when I call out political opinions posted as "memes" is incredible. Every time it's either some mental gymnastics about how it actually counts as meme or alternatively ad-hominem accusations about my underlaying motives of only calling out left-wing political memes and never right-wing ones (I wonder why).

The truth is that my feed is almost exclusively politics despite me blocking every single political instance other than the ones for general news. I bet there's even a community dedicated to political memes but no. Some people absolutely have to inject their political views everywhere.

As moderator of the community [email protected] I very much enjoy the leftist and anarchist stuff. Thanks for asking. ;)

My opinion:

I just wish someone would stop with all those leftist memes like ‘future of humanity under socialism vs. capitalism’ because it’s just, in a crude manner, cringe. They’re not very unique, and fail to underline even the basic differences between the two ideologies.

Capitalism is not understood by everyone here, and I feel like those making this stuff are extremely young, have yet to understand what the world offers.

It’s clear that socialism does have its merits but making memes simply mocking capitalism without showing crude memes… not worth it.

I just downvote those kind of posts, they’re awfully low quality and low effort.

I don't mind edgy leftist memes, I just get annoyed at how overconfident MLs in particular are about their broader grasp of political philosophy.

You are not the only one. I am starting to unsubscribe from communities that I feel like it is simply too much of. I get that people want it, and that's their choice, but it's feeling a bit overwhelming lately. I thought it might decrease after the USA election but... nope.

Posts complaining about "politics" and "propaganda" are invariably made by people who want to see those things, just the kind aligned with their politics.

I think the first time I saw this meme format was around 2002-2004. And I've seen it 10,000 times since then. And if OP is posting this in good faith, this will be the first time.

And BTW, there is no such thing as a space without propaganda or politics. Only spaces where the politics and propaganda are homestyle and cozy.

It does get very predictable and repetitive. I feel like the conversation goes the same way under each political meme.

Is that a feeling i’m the only one feeling? edit: i think what makes it worse is that very often they’re not even funny, just literal propaganda, “good guy propaganda”, maybe, but still propaganda

I don't think its your intention, but this kind of reads like "go be poor somewhere else". The uptick in the messages you're seeing are from people that are on the losing end of society, and that losing end is growing more and more all the time. So far I'm lucky (and it is just luck) to not be there, but I recognize that ignoring, or worse silencing, them is the wrong way to go.

Their messages have value because they aren't being heard. If that keeps up, it will mean the shredding of our society and we all lose. So in short, I'm fine with the "class war" messages as they are here against the rich establishment.

I have little patience for memes, and even less so political memes. The right wing stuff is all woman hating fascists, and the left wing stuff are people who would send me to a camp or chase me out of the country for having a slight disagreement with them on my specific take on socialism.

There's often no room for discussion or disagreement, because "its a joke". So at that point it's just political brainwashing, no matter which side it is on.

Of course, sometimes it's fun, and sometimes it's good. There's a role for humour to play in highlighting injustice and systemic absurdity. I'm not completely against it. I just have little patience for for it.

Which is why I mostly use this platform to look at pictures of owls.

OP be careful, you've inadvertently spoken the sacred incantation and summoned the dreaded political content right into this very thread!

I saw a post about someone who made sliders (mini hamburgers) and everyone they'd served them to so far liked them. I wish we had more posts like that one. The problem with Lemmy is there is not enough active niche communities for peoples interests. This is one thing Reddit does much better due to the scale of the user base.

It feels like a brief respite every time I stumble on a post like that.

No

It is really interesting that the original post got removed. Guess people don't complain about .ml without reason.

tired of seeing political content in non-political communities. I'm sure there's a political memes community let us live in peace please.

Yeah, sometimes.

But, like Lemmy is (almost) entirely populated by people who so strongly disagreed with the political drama (either uspol or redditpol) of reddit that they took specific action about it.

It's a wonder Lemmy isn't all radical politics.

I normally only look at communities I am subscribed to and am not subscribed to places where such things are usually posted. You could try that too.

In general I dislike communities with concepts like "pics", "comics", "memes", etc., I don't want to see just any pics or comics, I want to see ones I might find interesting. Lemmy is unfortunately not yet a big enough place that it has specialized communities for everything.