And then you come to this place and give us flashback.
Thanks for nothing
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
- Trump be stoopid
- Israel be bad
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.
Being apolitical is just accepting status quo which is, funnily enough, also an explicit political stance.
There a huge difference between apolitical and not wanting to be spammed by left-wing echo chamber talking points. Who do leftists think they are reaching on Lemmy anyways lol.
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.
