I joined Lemmy a few days ago and have been reading around. 90%+ of the content I see, even on non-politics related communities, is political in some way. I have no interest in that, so it’s tiring, especially when it’s inserted in the comments of completely unrelated posts.

  • Omega@discuss.online
    101·
    1 hour ago

    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

  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
    7·
    2 hours ago

    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…”

  • nibble4bits@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    7 hours ago

    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.

  • dukeofdummies@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    11 hours ago

    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.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      8·
      8 hours ago

      I mean, they have political stances, for example, they think people should be able to access porn, trans and gay people are ok, cartoon porn is not the same as CP, and similar things.

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
    101·
    9 hours ago

    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.

    • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      9 hours ago

      Not true at all. On the other site you can curate subs so your feed consists entirely of puppies and pottery tips.

  • 0oWow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    8 hours ago

    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).