Bullying someone who's country is at war with a dictator is bad, yes.

I blocked all of the news and political communities on my main account.

I keep an alt to keep track of local and national news of where I live. Improved my mental health substantially.

Edit: I live in Europe

Trump is using a technique called 'The Gish Gallop.'

Obama wanted to pass the ACA and the GOP managed to block it for almost two years because Obama kept talking about that one thing.

Trump is breaking rules left and right; plus screaming about crazy ideas like buying Greenland.

There is so much stuff going on that normal minds just want to shut down to get some peace and quiet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

I haven't seen any egg pics. Something is wrong, I can feel it.

Beans? Look here youngin

Where's my potash?

It's because political discussion (and in general most commentary) on Reddit / Meta / Xitter has become overtly censored, and there's a real concern that it's tracked - a bad thing in an authoritarian regime barreling towards facism. Those who wish to have real political discourse having been moving away, and lemmy is receiving a lot of that traffic.

As an example, referring to a list of CEO's on Reddit as "Luigi's List" will get you a ban warning for inciting violence.

This increase in sensitivity to the potential implications of real political speech, coupled with increasingly stringent rules on the parts of the mods and accelerated by the auto-mod bots and AI chat bots, has led to a very restrictive discussion environment on the big social media networks. Even Bluesky, which is left-leaning and possesses the architecture for multiple servers to avoid centralization, is following this pattern.

Lemmy / Mastodon are attractive because they're not as restrictive, when you're posting you're interacting with real people, and because the mods and admins are humans dealing with a manageable population. And if someone censors you on the server you're on, you just move to another. More and more folks are realizing this as the enshitification of the big 3 continues.

Fear not, the memes will live on, but I think that in a very real way, Lemmy's (and the Fediverse's) time is upon us, and this is the result. People are using it for real shit because the real shit is upon us, and we need a place where we can freely discuss how to get clear of the incoming shitstorm.

News should always take a higher seat than memes. I don’t know why this is considered abnormal. For ages, the front page of ALL newspapers paper have been news. Not the comics section.

Feels like it's been that way since the election to be honest

Lemmy has always been a political outlet, but post election has been out of hands.

I actually saw some news bleed into shitpost the other day. It's that bad.

It's not just Lemmy either. Every platform is looking like this. At least people have woken the fuck up.