No Stupid Questions

Because generally speaking, politics is at the end of the day the single most unfiying thing on earth.

Everyone and everything at every level is directly influenced by politics.

So when you get a bunch of people together on a topic and those people otherwise don't know each other. They are only really able to communicate in passing with one or two things.

Politics and its relation to the topic. Or a narrow opinion on the topic. Maybe a joke or some other passing comment if you push it.

It's what small talk is. And Lemmy like reddit and any other major general community is mostly goanna be small talk.

The more frequent commenters may learn each other or have more meaningful communication but that's goanna be rare. And realistically any meaningful conversation is goanna be sparked either via a disagreement or agreement from the aforementioned poltical view or opinion shared.

Functionally if you don't want to engage with politics at any level for any reason no matter what. Then you basically need to just stop using anonymous or impersonal forms of communication. Which basically means stop using public forums as a whole.

Cause it's politics or the weather basically, and since no one is goanna talk about the weather your left with politics for small talk.

That or stick very strictly to forums that deal in a extremely EXTREMELY narrow topic. Like cat pictures with out captions.

It's always been political, you were just in a more comfortable for you political space. Typically you don't notice the politics when that's just life and your own values.

Lot of good advice here about curation, thats definitely an option to leverage your subscribed feed.

Another option, is to remove yourself from the largest server (lemmy world), look at your options on other instances, theres hundreds. The label to the right of usernames should denote what instance people are connecting from.

Some examples are blahaj, midwest.social, sopuli, feddit....

The links below have lists of a lot of the available instances,

Lemmyverse.net

Fedidb

Advantages of Choosing a Smaller Server

The experience of the 'Local' tab seems to be genuinely different from Lemmy World.

Lemmy World probably doesn't look too different whether you sort by the 'all' tab or 'local' tab, so you really only have the 'subscribe' tab to find and hone your niche on the network.

Going for a smaller, but active in its own right, instance means you suddenly have a 'local' tab that is highly differentiated from the wider lemmy network, andgoing along with that its often a bit less political.

I'd use my own as an example here, but we've just had a major election in Australia, so its been pretty political lately, i'm expecting that to subside now that the chooks are counted.

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

First: allow me to welcome all new members of LEMMY.

Seriously, whatever flavor you are federating from. And pardon me I have not read this entire thread of replies but I hope it is full of nothing but welcome!

Not all of Lemmy is political. A lot is though, so I can imagine that it may seem charged.

But what’s really happening here is that everything is… transparent. That’s why I’m here. If there is bias, it’s visible.

The trouble with the corporate alternatives is that their hidden bias is: control. Pardon the politics even here, but the fact is our society has never reflected a situation where one group exercises dictatorial control over almost everyone with complete immunity.

Because with all their creepy animated emoji things and predictive analytics they are putting folks asleep. Wake, work, isolate, Sleep. This is the bias of corporate social media. Emphasis on isolate.

So… welcome…

And enjoy. It’s nice to be a part of a place where people are more awake.

But under all interactions should be the vibe that we all in this together.

So welcome. Enjoy. Find you place and your people. Ignore posts that alarm or annoy you.

Try piefed.social -- on onboarding it asks if you want to see politics.

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.

The world is political.

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

Its not. We have cat pics as well.

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..."

Welcome to 2025

remove all of the news communities from your feed and try again

Keyword filters my guy

Well you can filter them out, ya

Welcome to the internet.

Everything is political. You're just not aware of how the things you like are political.

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.

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.

I don't want to be political, but the government decided that me existing should be illegal. So now me posting about fashion or makeup or whatever is automatically political now.

lemmynsfw.world doesn't have that much politics ..

This is a link sharing platform. Primarily links to news articles.

Don't conflate politics to reading the news. If you have no interest in reading the news, you probably shouldn't be on a link sharing site.

Because shit's really fucked up right now and needs to be fixed.

You're like one of those people in a world war, "Why's everyone so political*?*"

Bitch, politics affects everything. And everything's fucked up. Therefore, politics everywhere. Wanna have it not be everywhere? Fix it then. Don't complain that everybody's pissed off about everything and act like you're confused, you aren't that dumb. Nobody's that dumb.

Block communities you don't want to see. Browse and look for communities that aren't currently hitting your front page and subscribe. Yesterday, I discovered one that was right up my alley that I hadn't seen after nearly two years on Lemmy.

I also did not come here for politics.

I came here as an alternative to reddit.

What I did to fix it was to find similar Lemmy communities to those subreddits. I also set up filtering to block out key words, names, etc.

It makes it a lot more bearable.

One thing I've noticed, Lemmy and Reddit are run in a large part by content bots when it comes to non-politics. There are some exceptions. I recommend you make peace with the bots and appreciate the content (all the while contributing content yourself of course).

Lemmy suffers from the "alt-tech curse" in that since there is perfectly serviceable, normie friendly tech, for someone to come to the alternative you have to be not so normie.

Gab, Parler, Voat back in the day, Mastodon and Lemmy, bluesky, etc are all part of the same phenomenon of micro-exodi from established sites due to fitting poorly with existing moderation which, given the fact normies still use the sites, means we're always looking at extremists of some kind.

Whether it's the tankies on lemmy.ml, or the progs on bluesky, or the tradcons on parler and gab, it's always some group being told "if you don't like it here go make your own" and them doing it.

The problem is this makes these environments extremely off-putting to normies as every single motherfucker on each of these platforms has at least a Bachelor's degree in scaring the hoes.

The reality is, if you want normie content, you're gonna find it on platforms used by normies.

Lemmy is too niche to have karma farming bots reposting the same shit every hour, so cat videos etc are in short supply, and most of the people who do participate here have scary levels of politics brainrot.

We're all kind of living in hell because of our disfunctional system and fearful countrymen. So we're just kinda trying to cope together by commiserating.

This is a time of political crisis. The US government is upending decades of alliances and economics. The right wing is globally on the rise, and that means people's lives are in danger. The environment is becoming more unpredictable and less supportive for humanity.

There's a lot of important political shit to talk about. If we were living in a boring utopia, there'd be less, probably.

Also, what do you even consider "political"? Some people will tell you that a story about a man and a woman getting married isn't political, but a story about two men getting married is. That's a really low quality analysis there.

There's probably a correlation between people who are aware enough of reddit's practices and policies to want to switch to Lemmy and people who are engaged in or by political discussion.

You privilege is showing.

Whenever someone claims to be “apolitical”, or wants something to “not be political”, is because they are looking at it from a position of privilege where the status quo doesn't hurt or challenges them. They also can't see the oppression, hurt or risk that said thing exerts on others, minorities, or social pariahs.

Non-political is a mythical creature. It exists as a safe haven to lure the insensitive into apathetic inaction. Nothing is apolitical because existing as a human being is itself political.