Because generally speaking, politics is at the end of the day the single most unfiying thing on earth.

Everyone and everything at every level is directly influenced by politics.

So when you get a bunch of people together on a topic and those people otherwise don’t know each other. They are only really able to communicate in passing with one or two things.

Politics and its relation to the topic. Or a narrow opinion on the topic. Maybe a joke or some other passing comment if you push it.

It’s what small talk is. And Lemmy like reddit and any other major general community is mostly goanna be small talk.

The more frequent commenters may learn each other or have more meaningful communication but that’s goanna be rare. And realistically any meaningful conversation is goanna be sparked either via a disagreement or agreement from the aforementioned poltical view or opinion shared.

Functionally if you don’t want to engage with politics at any level for any reason no matter what. Then you basically need to just stop using anonymous or impersonal forms of communication. Which basically means stop using public forums as a whole.

Cause it’s politics or the weather basically, and since no one is goanna talk about the weather your left with politics for small talk.

That or stick very strictly to forums that deal in a extremely EXTREMELY narrow topic. Like cat pictures with out captions.

It’s always been political, you were just in a more comfortable for you political space. Typically you don’t notice the politics when that’s just life and your own values.

It’s because Lemmy mainly consists of hyper-frustrated leftists who treat it as their safe space echo chamber.

Lot of good advice here about curation, thats definitely an option to leverage your subscribed feed.

Another option, is to remove yourself from the largest server (lemmy world), look at your options on other instances, theres hundreds. The label to the right of usernames should denote what instance people are connecting from.

Some examples are blahaj, midwest.social, sopuli, feddit…

The links below have lists of a lot of the available instances,

Lemmyverse.net

Fedidb

Advantages of Choosing a Smaller Server

The experience of the ‘Local’ tab seems to be genuinely different from Lemmy World.

Lemmy World probably doesn’t look too different whether you sort by the ‘all’ tab or ‘local’ tab, so you really only have the ‘subscribe’ tab to find and hone your niche on the network.

Going for a smaller, but active in its own right, instance means you suddenly have a ‘local’ tab that is highly differentiated from the wider lemmy network, andgoing along with that its often a bit less political.

I’d use my own as an example here, but we’ve just had a major election in Australia, so its been pretty political lately, i’m expecting that to subside now that the chooks are counted.

First: allow me to welcome all new members of LEMMY.

Seriously, whatever flavor you are federating from. And pardon me I have not read this entire thread of replies but I hope it is full of nothing but welcome!

Not all of Lemmy is political. A lot is though, so I can imagine that it may seem charged.

But what’s really happening here is that everything is… transparent. That’s why I’m here. If there is bias, it’s visible.

The trouble with the corporate alternatives is that their hidden bias is: control. Pardon the politics even here, but the fact is our society has never reflected a situation where one group exercises dictatorial control over almost everyone with complete immunity.

Because with all their creepy animated emoji things and predictive analytics they are putting folks asleep. Wake, work, isolate, Sleep. This is the bias of corporate social media. Emphasis on isolate.

So… welcome…

And enjoy. It’s nice to be a part of a place where people are more awake.

But under all interactions should be the vibe that we all in this together.

So welcome. Enjoy. Find you place and your people. Ignore posts that alarm or annoy you.

Try piefed.social – on onboarding it asks if you want to see politics.

First, That’s what happens when you’re living under a dictator.

Second, even in normal times, everything is political. How much you get paid, and how your boss treats you, and how banks work, and how the roads look, and everything else you see is the result of a political choice.

The world is political.

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

Its not. We have cat pics as well.

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.

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“n-nevermind…”

Welcome to 2025

remove all of the news communities from your feed and try again

Keyword filters my guy

Well you can filter them out, ya