All this endless nagging of politics, ideology, capitalism, billionaries, tankies, right-wing, left-wing, Desantis and Trump are slowly making me lose interest in Lemmy. You are ruining Lemmy honestly

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

There is the old cliche that during holiday dinner there is always that one right-wing uncle who never shuts the fuck about politics (these days being during Thanksgiving and how great Trump is). Everyone finds what this uncle is saying is cringe as hell.

Well, that's kind of what Lemmy is becoming, but for the far-left.

If it is in a political community, it is one thing. And to a large degree, I might even agree with most left-of-center views.

But there is an endless stream of edgy pro-commie and similar posts and a dearth of other light-hearted posts to counter balance it. Almost all communities outside the ones listed above get no traffic, so there's no point in trying to start a conversation about cars or DIY projects or electronics. Hell, even the NSFW communities on Lemmy are rather lame.

[–] Minnels@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This. I come to this type of place to read about games and memes but more than 50% seem to be about politics or irl news. Getting tiresome.

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you subscribe to games and memes communities, read Local, or the All feed?

Keep in mind there is no automatic filter to clickbait you in All, it's up to you to "be the filter".

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a filter on r/all except a filter on NSFW subs and some other subs?

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy lets you block users and communities, some Lemmy apps also let you block instances and keywords.

[–] TooManyGames@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't this is the reason. If a good portion of the users didn't want those things, they'd be downvoted to heck. It's more likely that a part of the reddit refugees didn't stick around.

[–] dafo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with rr7, I've come here because of the Reddit debacle, but I've gone away from Lemmy multiple times because politics has made its way into posts and communities where it does not belong.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I probably have different interests, but yeah, too often one discussion pollutes another. I know we love to hate on moderators, but it benefits us all to keep communities on whatever area they focus on. Moderators really do make the community

[–] StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still have no idea what a tankie is, and I have no idea why the top active posts are always tankie this and tankie that. I've tried to filter as many of those communities and users as I can, but now all I'm left with is software developer memes (yes, you have the hardest job ever, we get it) and requests for FOSS alternatives to FTP my Linux repo PowerShell GitHub thingy in privacy.

[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A "Tankie" is someone who approves of authoritarian communist regimes. This is a reference to the use of tanks by such regimes against anti-communist protests. They had a powerful presence on lemmy before any reddit migrations occurred.

In terms of some communities that seem decent...

mander.xyz has some really decent science communities and generally they don't head off into politics land.

slrpnk.net has some decent communities regarding green energy and the like. They naturally have some more political posts, but it isn't too insufferable.

I've been pretty happy with the posts I see from lemmy.sdf.org, still computer stuff but they seem pretty decent.

@realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city has a good habit of posting a lot of either neutral or non-political content over on narwhal.city in various communities. I think he's also over on kbin.projectsegfau.lt, but I don't know too much about that server.

cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social has been reasonably decent with lots of cyberpunk stuff

It seems like a lot of communities dropped off a cliff about a week ago.