Literally seen more whining about politics than I’ve seen politics.
Well… technically speaking: Isn’t “whining about politics” still “politics”?
If we follow that rabbit hole, OP has contributed to the exact issue they are ranting about.
Does your instance federate with Hexbear and Lemmygrad? Because I constantly have those people in my feed and it’s absolutely exhausting. I see more memes about burning the rich and starting a revolution than normal memes in my feed. I’m left-wing, but I’m not looking at memes to constantly be confronted with politics. Unfortunately instance blocking isn’t working well for me yet
Hi, you can take action by blocking the most prolific communities - there aren’t that many in either instance that are high volume.
There are also instances that don’t federate with either.
Alas, yes it does, but idk, stop looking at shit memes.
Oh I wish to stop looking at shit memes, but if more than half of them are tankie crap it’s obviously going to degrade the experience
You need a better meme plug. I’d share my sources, but I don’t want them to get too popular, yaknow?
You wouldn’t know them, they go to another instance
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Your instance doesn’t affect what you see, except in cases of de-federation.
Same. OP is no 2 for my blocklist of literal children crying about politics.
Waah…I don’t want to press the downvote button, id rather whine about all the things I don’t like. People should automatically anticipate my desires and cater to them… Waaahh
Do you read the comments too, or just scroll through the feed?
I do. And it doesn’t phase me, just scroll on past, like that homeless man you ignore in the street.
like that homeless man you ignore in the street
Nonpolitically.
No politics here, oh shit now there’s pronouns and I ruined it
There’s already a smuglord here saying that there’s no politics in programming.dev… just their own smug status quo warrior politics they vomited toward Hexbear each and every time I saw them around when federated.
People in the instance have more varying viewpoints since its oriented towards a niche/content category (+ same is true for other niche instances). People interacting in the instance can be managed but its difficult for people interacting outside to be moderated to make sure theyre actually following our rules since admins dont get reports of people in their instance being reported, only the instances of where they interact in do.
Politics communities (aka communities that only talk about politics rather than something like a hobby (and lgbtq+ isnt politics)) are now hidden by default on the instance though hence why you probably havent noticed the two are federated still since people dont stumble in and need to explicitly choose to see the content (leading to less people arguing on different politics communities since they just sub to the one they want and then sees that one as normal)
you could hold up a mirror and they still wouldn’t recognize themselves in it.
I’ve seen a sudden influx of memes all about this and I don’t know why. It’s suddenly the new trend and I don’t understand it.
Make your own instance with the politics you want.
There is no such thing as non-political spaces, only spaces where everyone has pre-agreed on what politics are acceptable.
There is no such thing as a non-political discussion either! ;) everything is politics in some sense
No, everything is math.
Math is life!
math is racist.
edit: /s for those of you who don’t get the joke
Burn the math!
Average comment: “I’m glad to see more female engineers. Historically they have been disfranchised.”
MFers like OP: “Why would you bring politics into this?”
There are only two genders: man and political!
I am wary of people using an unspecified “politics tho” like this. More than once the “”“PoLiTiCs”“” they meant were LGBTQIA+ people simply existing.
Honestly I never got why LGBT+ is even a political thing. It’s just basic human rights. But probably my opinion will be seen as politics by some.
That was my point. It’s NOT political. The right is just using their existence as a scape goat.
Everything is political. This is why human rights get attacked by politicians.
If there are two or more people, there are politics. I agree with the idea that people who decry ‘politics’ often have disgusting ideas and beliefs. Its a malignant form of privilege to pretend to be able to ignore politics. It’s either that or they are just a little dim and don’t feel they can keep up in a conversation.
Talking about Trump on every other thread has nothing to do with politics either, I assume?
You are the one who just brought up that orange fuck lol
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Almost everything conceivable has a political angle of some sort.
What people that complain about politics generally mean is “politics that they notice that make them uncomfortable.”
“marginalized folks? Grrrrrrrr!”
“Why can’t there be normal people in my treats that don’t have political issues visibly affecting their lives?”
No, they mean you fuckers thinking outright political posts are memes.
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I wish people would stop using “politics” as a buzzword for every bit of news they don’t care to hear about.
News is fine.
It’s when people start screaming/blaming the “left” or “right”, the “biden” or “trump”, etc.
Extra annoying when I am not even fucking American and have to hear Americans scream about your old senile corpses you call presidents in EVERY FUCKING POST.
Extra extra annoying when I am reading a news article about my country, and Americans roll in screaming about how that’s “bidens fault” or “illegal in montana”. Learn to fucking read where you are.
How does this compare to other western countries?
As an American, I couldn’t resist.
I havent seen anyone talk about politics on programming.dev
Thank you, we’ll get right on it.
That’s right.
But only because “Vim vs Emacs” is a technically a religious holy war.
Nothing but holy wars there.
I’m immediately suspicious of people that don’t want to discuss politics in today’s world. You literally have to be a carefree ostrich.
I guess not wanting to discuss it is okay considering that’s exhausting, but asking others not to is the dick move
Not really. I want to kick back and relax, why would i start discussing politics in my free time? I live in a state that is deeply entrenched in one side, so my opinion does not really matter
Sounds like you’re asking yourself a philosophical question. Some people actually care about things.
Arguing politics online has never solved anything. I have better uses of my energy than to argue politics with a bunch of faceless randoms that won’t accept anything less than total conformity.
Politics in a political or news sub is fine. Politics in, say, a technology sub or a gaming one is just annoying.
I think they prefer to be called “Austrians”
Tell me how it’s “suspicious” to not want to read a post about Starfield, and have the comments be filled about politics because the game allows you to pick between he/him, she/her, and they/them?
It’s a game. Shut the fuck up about politics.
Umm how is that politics? I think you’re confused.
America has turned pronouns political. I think you’re confused.
Ahh ok any social issue that makes people uncomfortable is political.
I don’t think you understand what pronouns are.
I block a lot of folks. It’s nice.
Well lemmy has a left lean and it’s currently small enough for it to spill into other communities.
I lean to the left myself. But it’s just nice to have a break every once in a while.
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Seriously. I’m suspicious and tired of people who can find a way to complain about Trump and Republicans or Biden and alleged Socialism in literally every single topic, no matter how unrelated it may be. I just want to laugh every once in a while.
Exactly! But everytime someone says this out come the but everything is politics warriors.
I think it’s the world that’s been taken over, not by politics, but by a series of rich bastards not being held accountable for the crimes against society they’re regularly committing.
But either way I’d be MUCH happier to wish for all the porn to be removed from my feed when I dont even follow a single porn based sub. Or at the very least make sure it’s blurred.
Genie: so there are 5 rules
this is EXACTLY what the OTHER PARTY would say!!!
To be honest, due to how this thread turned out, I’m not even able to distinguish if this is serious or sarcasm
Just to clarify, my general point, I am in no way against discussing politics. Be it in the political communities, or with the occasional meme. I fully realize the potential that memes have for initiating or reflecting on political discussion.
My point here is that I have a strong feeling that the comment section of seemingly non-divisive posts I’ve also fallen prey to the BuT eVeRyThInG iS PoLiTiCs hardliners. I fully realize that many, many topics can be seen as politically divisive, even if I don’t feel so myself. But I would like to make two points about this:
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And some posts, I get the feeling that the political discussion has absolutely nothing to do with the post body itself. It could be a picture of a beautiful sunrise, and someone suddenly starts talking about some American politician, and about how if it was up to that politician, we would never have sunrises again or something.
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Secondly, but very importantly: the level tends to be very low. People don’t know once we articulate their political opinion or reaction to another person’s political opinion, but it turns into this food fight-grade yes/no, strawman, whataboutism, etc. etc. It is my personal opinion that this takes away from most users lemmy experience, it does from mine anyway.
im being sarcastic.
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Seems to me lemmy needs a bigger downvote button
Not seen this yet, tbh. Politics in fact seem a rather rare topic outside of the US-centric posts?
I meant taken over, but can’t change it now on mobile
It’s okay. We get it. But I see you’ve been scarred by those I mentioned in my other comment.
You know they’re still gonna come for you, though…
sniff sniff “Hark! Doth he hear a chance to feel better about thyself?” cracks knuckles
Thanks saltesc :)
if people were to actually downvote politics that would help
If people actually upvoted good content and downvoted bad content, the front page of every default sub on Reddit wouldn’t be an endless sea of reposts.
I downvote whenever I see them, but it seems like there are more, or a loud few (maybe both), for every one of my downvotes. It’s not just here, it seems like this on /all too. To be more specific, it seems there are more trolls constantly watching and quicker on the keyboard for anything remotely political. It sucks that we need moderation in any capacity to enforce no politics on ‘no politics’ spaces…
