I just browse "All" and I keep getting slapped with "Kamala actually cares about Gaza and understands the complexities of the situation so plz vote plz I beg we need this so bad no don't go actually look at the ongoing genocide just plz vote" posts
I haven't blocked it, I just don't interact with it much and it doesn't bother me at all. Very rarely is there anything that I want to see other people's opinion on, and the vast majority if posts is US politics which is just a circus to laugh at as an outsider. It's far from as bad as Reddit was, it doesn't take up whole days of several pages of top posts and I learned my lesson of not reading comments much.
This is a fair assessment. I actually like politics, but I have still blocked numerous political communities because the users spam variations of the exact same 2 articles over, and over, and over, and over again.
It's either going to be:
The first few times were interesting, now it's just effing annoying. Blocking these communities has definitely improved my Lemmy experience.
Join communities focused on political theory more, you get more analysis than simply X Bad.
I just remember, in the very early days of these kinds of online communities, that people would actually try and organize to do shit. Like, you'd have folks on /r/Houston talking about a bunch of redditors going down to the Houston Food Bank to volunteer. Or you'd have some serious fucking shit out about a landlord with folks offering to come down and help out. I even caught a "my car is broken, I don't know what to do" with a "don't worry, I can help out" and a final "omg, its fixed, thank you so much!"
Now its all talk. Nothing is real, its all just fucking ads and Mr. Beast style stunts. Nobody has any kind of trust or empathy for anyone else online. The closest you get to a material social network is people on Nextdoor screaming about how a strange car drove down the street and desperately asking everyone on the block to call the police and report it at once.
Shit fucking sucks.
The closest I've seen on Lemmy is Hexbear's Mutual Aid community, where users help each other out financially when in need.
It works, in no small part, because the community is small and people have known each other by handles for years now.
But the flip side is that a few of the mods on Hexbear can be just as draconian in their administration policy as anyone on old-school Reddit. So you periodically see otherwise friendly and active members vanish from the site.
nobody has ever felt inner peace wearing a button shirt and tie
He's naked in the other pic.
Exactly. This asshole wants people to stop yelling at them for "just wanting a fiscal conservative" in office. (The guy in the pic, not OP)
i like sticking my head in the sand too; it's safe.
I'm glad you did what you want with your own life. People should block instances/people/subs instead of complaining about them. I think the people who complain actually want to grandstand their own beliefs. You have become what you hate dipshits!
Block/mute, move on. It's your life. It's your lemmy. Use the tools at your disposal instead of trying to get other people to do what you want!
Anyone telling American voters to ignore politics in an election year doesn't want progress. Please keep that in mind...
Many of us aren't American. The assumption that we are remains an annoyance on this website.
On this internet.
I just don’t think you need to be bombarded with political crap in every community. You can care about politics and not want to see it in every other post.
When you ignore politics:
Except it's mostly Americans, and their politics mostly has nothing to do with me. Such is life I suppose.
use one of the instances that are not based in the united states; my french is getting a workout on .ml.
Give it time, eventually we will do an imperialism to your country too.
Well, the 'politics' communities are usually used by US folks as their politics communities. It's great that Trump is doing senile-old-man things again, but I cannot vote for or against the guy anyways. So, there is no real reason for me to keep up with that drama.
Honestly if I weren't American, I would still keep up with American politics at the moment just for entertainment value, or to feel better about the situation im in. "Oof, America has it bad right now. Thank god I live in Sri Lanka!"
Remember kids, nothing doesn't apply to you, everything was made specifically for you. If you find yourself in a community that seems like it doesn't apply to you, remember that you're never in the wrong place, obviously it is that community who is in the wrong.
What? Is this supposed to be snark? By blocking the community, I am saying that this is the wrong place for me to be. I just don't want it showing up in /all.
I still browse through the political communities occasionally but I hate how their posts absolutely dominate the main page by default.
This is certainly what they want you to think.
The fact is that "both sides" (sorry) are selling a pill for doom. The fire meme above is whatever Trumps latest scary/dumb thing he said, or it's 40 network cameras focused on a 100 SqYd patch of a city that wants to be on the news.
It's whatever will mobilize you to donate, click, watch, buy, and yes, vote.
We only got the fire meme because we don't understand fire.
Privilege is so convenient, in so many ways! I mean, who gives a shit about any of it, I'll probably never be affected!
Being apolitical is just accepting status quo which is, funnily enough, also an explicit political stance.
You can vote without having 70 % of your feed filled with the fucked up USA politics.
To be fair, voting is less than the bare minimum effort required to enact meaningful change.
And how can you know what meaningful change even is without staying on top of current events?
I can stay on top of current events without needing to see 28485838283 memes about how big Kamala's dick is, or how small Trump's is, or how Israel is doing bad things to palistine. Memes are the bumper stickers of the internet, they do not inform people about anything except the OPs opinions or sense of humor.
You just equated blocking c/politics with being broadly pro status quo. You can be politically engaged and active and not like the discussions on c/politics.
No, i equated being apolitical with being pro status quo. Being apolitical was implied by not wanting to hear about politics and reaching "inner peace" as a result.
Ignorance is bliss.
I cannot disagree.
Turning my brain off to global affairs once or twice a week is essential to my sanity.
Along with anything news related.
Also political memes.
And memes.
I created an account just for that lol
And then you come to this place and give us flashback.
Thanks for nothing
