There are tons of non political communities! If it's really an issue why not just browse by your subscribed communities? That way you'll only see the content you're interested in!
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2024
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You can always block political communities. I don't sub to any on my main feed, and I get almost zero politics as a result.
lemmy is objectively worse because I don't personally like it
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Honestly, fair enough. I'm with you on the politics and stuff, I have most of that blocked and just use my Fedi accounts for crafts (this one) and gaming and other nerdery (alt account). But I'm middle-aged so the older demographic suits me just fine :D
Just because you tried the Fediverse doesn't mean it's bad to not like it. You can't actually know if you like something before trying it, after all. It's not for you and that's ok, I wish you many fun times on whichever social media you like best!
Have you tried Truth Social?
You're got to stay away from the wokeness. And from spell check.
Unpopular opinion. Next.
It is a common complaint about Lemmy, and I agree to it to an extend.
If you want to see less political content, feel free to subscribe to
Subscribe to communities you like and browse Subscribed by default. I see almost no politics.
Another user's unpopular opinion gets downvoted in c/UnpopularOpinion, despite them having a reasonable explanation for their thoughts. Your complaints are valid, and I wish this place was more active too. Many of the fediverse equivalents of the subreddits I enjoyed before the exodus rarely get posts or are actually abandoned, and that's if someone bothers making one at all. Even the ones that are active still get a small fraction of the discussion that their subreddit would get. Also, there's more fracturing and inter-community drama, with instances fully defederalizing with other insances because of problems with certain communities there. And naturally the apps available are much less mature.
Lemmy is excellent for leftist politics, tech enthusiasts, and some other select interests. But it doesn't really let you discover things or integrate into a community well. Filtering out things that I have little interest in leaves very little, whereas Reddit was big enough for me to be very picky in flitering while still including all kinds of niche things in my custom feed. I still often search for reddit posts if I want to learn from an informed community perspective or get a guide for something.
I hope more people give this a chance, because it really does avoid issues with company-owned social media, but I guess it's hard for people to overcome inertia and make the switch.
equivalents of the subreddits I enjoyed before the exodus rarely get posts or are actually abandoned, and that's if someone bothers making one at all.
The issue i see is that a huge influx of users came and tried to make lemmy like reddit.
So a large amount of niche communities started on a number of instances.
Whereas they organically grew on Reddit (ie, when /r/TV got too busy with The Boys posts, /r/TheBoys started as a community (these are just made up examples)).
I wish that lemmy had more concentrated communities on related instances (so lemmy.film.social is all about Movie communities). And communities would only specialise when the related generic community gets too busy.
All social media are fucked up, but I think Lemmy it's the less of them.