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āMan, Reddit sucks, you know what Lemmy needs? More politics!ā
Iām sick of seeing this guys face and reading his name anywhere and everywhere, but hey, continuing to never shut up about him āspreads awarenessā or whatever the hell, therefore I need to have him plastered everywhere 24/7 as if people donāt have anything else to focus on like what makes them enjoy themselves as a brief getaway from this crap.
Also adding Iāve blocked a number of terms, communities, and an entire instance in part for this, and it still gets through like this. Itās not a hard ask to be able to get away from it.
If youāre asking the rest of the world to just never discuss the thing thatās at the center of nearly all major world news, that is a hard ask.
I know itās not pleasant, I get if you donāt like hearing about it, but thereās really not any way of getting away from it.
Reddit sucks because of the administration, not because users talked about politics.
Right, the culture of the platform didnāt factor into things at all, when something is bad, there can only ever be one thing bad about it.
You know you can make your own instance with blackjack and hookers right? If you read the sidebar of this community, nothing being said here is problematic according to the community (and by extension, instance) owners.
Redditās a one stop shop, one point of failure, one set of guidelines. If you need a place that is devoid of politics, shitposters posting about the news, or people who make you feel uncomfortable for mentioning the headlines, I am certain there is an instance and community for you.
Probably not as populated tho.
Oh man, I love disassociating so much. I hate the real world. Why do I have to be constantly reminded of genocide, innocent people being sent to concentration camps, entire demographics losing their rights, or fascist white supremacists that would goon to the thought of my life being just a little harder?
Why is no one letting me disassociate in peace like I want. Donāt they understand that Iām the real victim here?
Ah yes, the two sides of existence where thereās zero middle ground:
Being someone who follows nothing because I donāt care enough to follow stuff
or
Duct-taping my eyes to the screen as I scroll through every single thing on the internet about every minute little detail that happens in politics to the point where itās my entire identity.
Clearly no middle ground possible here, no-siree, but letās just pretend that Lemmy doesnāt have a problem with user growth because people get turned away because itās 90% political content on the major feeds and nothing else.
The beauty of the fediverse is that no one platform should become omnipresent but that interconnection between platforms is possible. Itās a user-directed service. If Lemmy isnāt meeting your personal standards then there are other options.
Yes, Lemmy is quite political. If that doesnāt tickle your fancy, youāre more than welcome to try a different service. Lemmyās purpose is not to become the next Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok in size - itās to provide an alternative to them. Growth for growthās sake isnāt usually a great idea.
Did you know that there are non-Americans on Lemmy? And that they maybe, just maybe, might want to focus on what is happening in their own countries?
I agree with the sentiment but trump is happening to your country too. America does effect the world even us non Americans.
Iām Canadian so itās certainly more pronounced but not a single country is uneffected by his actions and by the american market.
Lastly, feel free to post about your country and its issues. Iād personally love to see some shotposting about countries I donāt know much on or donāt pay enough attention to. Win win. Less trump posts per capita, more content on Lemmy, and we all learn
I agree with the sentiment but trump is happening to your country too. America does effect the world even us non Americans.
I already engage with what is happening in the US enough, but I try and avoid it here on Lemmy. I am mainly responding here in defence of someone who was jumped on for wanting to be able to regulate their intake of US politics.
Lastly, feel free to post about your country and its issues. Iād personally love to see some shotposting about countries I donāt know much on or donāt pay enough attention to. Win win. Less trump posts per capita, more content on Lemmy, and we all learn
I am not the most creative when it comes to memes, but I do post about Australian police issues over at [email protected]
On the flipside, how many of those people live in countries that would be unaffected by the outcome of US events?
This is just American exceptionalism. Let me reframe it, how many of those people would be unaffected by the outcome of Chinese events? Yet there are nowhere near as many posts about what is happening there.
But most of all, I think OCs complaint is valid. All it would have taken is text added to the post that just said āTrumpā and this would have been filtered by their keyword blocklist (and mine), their freedom to disengage remaining intact. OP replied to mock them when they could have made that change. That is what frustrates me.
If think what is happening in the USA will be isolated to the USA, then good luck.
USD is the worlds reserve currency. What happens to it effects every country.
I know that every aspect of life is political now, and that makes some mad. But really ask yourself how your country will be affected by the devaluation of USD and its next financial crisis. Then ask what would your country use for international trade instead?
- Have you heard about USD?
- Do you know what is the worldās reserve currency?
- Have you seen how much itās losing value?
- how was your country affected by the last financial crisis in the USA?
- how much US bonds/debt does your country own?
What is coming will affect everyone in whoās country is is in anyway economically affiliated with the US. This post was meant to be a wakeup call for people to do a risk assessment.
Honestly, I hope Iām wrong and what happens in the US can be totally isolated here. But realistically, I canāt think of a way thatās true.
And you being awful to someone who needs to disconnect from US politics is helping how exactly? This is all just the same American exceptionalism thatās existed on Lemmy (and Reddit before that) since the Obama era. You could literally just edit ātrumpā into your post and folks like myself and OC could choose how to regulate their feeds. I already get enough US politics from everywhere else that doesnāt have these keyword blocklist options.
I only really have a problem with it when itās in a post like this where thereās no reference in text, so filters/blocks canāt pick it up. 196 seems to have this issue most frequently due to the way people write titles here.
The number of so-called āgood sideā USians responding to you without a clue that they are also infected with the āAmerican exceptionalismā brainworms is ridiculous. Itās as if these people genuinely believe that every English-speaking creature on the internet is USian despite it being the lingua franca. Meanwhile, Iād bet you any money they have no fluffing idea what is going on in my country in relation to the liberation of Indigenous Australians. All while I know all too much about whatās happening to PoC and trans people in theirs. But they will swamp you and attack you for ānot caringā anyway. As if looking at memes online is going to make a meaningful difference at all to what is happening just past their own doorsteps.
I like a bit of rage bait as much as the next person but if I canāt get a break from it without going completely offline then I will go completely offline (just for a bit).
I donāt disagree with these posts but without my own mental health I am useless to their cause.
Filtering & moderation is supposed to be lemmyās advantage.I tried to do this several months ago and people went ape shit, like it was a personal attack on them āGuEsS YoUāRe jUsT GoNnA StIcK YoUr hEaD In tHe sAnD ThEn?!? YoUāRe pArT Of tHe pRoBlEm!!!ā
Dipshits
When I was in high school learning about Nazi Germany, I wondered what it would be like to live in those times. To have neighbours disappearing, and nobody does anything about it. Now I know.
I am not your neighbour. I am not on your continent. Even if all of the worldās militaries combined to try and stop what is happening in the US, they still would not be able to match the might of your countryās military. What would you have me do? Focus so much on your pawblems that I ignore those of my actual neighbours?
My friend committed suicide. She hanged herself. I donāt know why. I hung out with her the day before she did it, and she seemed happy. She had plans for the future. I only found out weeks after she did it.
And I think if we didnāt have a worldwide rising tide of fascism coming from America, there would be less trans girls killing themselves. I donāt know your story, I donāt know if this means anything to you, but what I care about is creating a world my friend would have wanted to live in. Because I have trans friends all over the world, including in America, who are still alive and who need my help. They need everyoneās help.
And you think Iām American because I care about my American friends? Because I think of them the way people a hundred years ago thought of their neighbours? Because I have a sense of empathy and Iām worried about what the Americans are sending over here?
We have fucking proud boys in my city, counterprotesting left wing rallies. If you donāt care about that, and canāt imagine caring about it, then youāre either very white and very cisgender, orā¦ I donāt have the words.
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I hope you keep that promise
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Maybe donāt blame the people that follow a healthy amount and decided to do something when the election date came rolling around. Just a reminder, 80 million didnāt care enough to vote, and higher turnout just about always works against Republicans.
āThe definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.ā When making the vast majority of a platform political content doesnāt work, you donāt solve that by doing it even more. Wanting to pull away from politics to improve oneās mental health shouldnāt be seen as criminal, but maybe when people see so much of it that it affects their mental well-being, they get turned away from caring entirely (which is not my case for the record).
Yeah I mean I voted, what more can I do, I have to spend the rest of my energy keeping myself alive
I like politics because Iām a good person.
I like politics. I donāt like being blasted with US politics, despite my* inability to do anything about them, especially when they circumvent my* extensive word blocklist. I guess that makes me a bad person ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
I donāt live in America, but Iāve been doing lots to help with US politics. Iāve been comforting my trans friends who live there, campaigning for refugee visas in my country, talking to Americans on the internet and asking them to vote Democrat in the midterms, and warming my local community up to the idea that we might have to fight against USA in world war 3.
I can do all that because Iām a kind, smart, determined, and creative person. You said you canāt do anything about US politics? Thatās a shame.
There are important issues in my own country that I focus my spoons on, yet despite that I am working on getting a creature to my country on a refugee visa from the US. Which is far more meaningful than looking at memes on Lemmy.
What is a shame is that you do not care enough about your neighbours to meaningfully try and address issues at home. I would rather work in my community to encourage people to vote for the Greens or the Socialists than to convince USians to vote for a party that does not work for them.
you do not care enough about your neighbours to meaningfully try and address issues at home
Itās not a zero sum game. I donāt have to forsake my friends in America and become a national isolationist in order to make change here. Gods, you sound like Tony Abbott with the āmy country firstā rhetoric.
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Okay? I like politics too, but I donāt like it being literally everything I engage with. Sometimes I want a break, I know thatās hard to imagine for people that in order to be a good person and follow on stuff, that your online activity doesnāt have to be over 80% political content.
This may seem wild to people, but maybe I engage with politics in a different manner like through commentators on videos and podcasts. I can curate my feed there to have an equal balance, itās a lot harder to do here and have things still be worthwhile because itās a smaller platform, and the majority of the time someone makes a new account and new communities, posts, or comments here, they decide to contribute politics and just about nothing else.
Oh, and bonus points if itās really low-quality stuff like this where itās literally months behind with the news just to say āTrump badā, where nothing of substance is added to the conversation.
I like video games with women in them. I like movies about rebellions. I like art that makes me think about society. I like science fiction that uses allegory to explore controversial issues. I like queer joy. I like books about feudal power struggles. I like Mass Effect. I like Mistborn. I like Aliens. I like Jurassic Park. I like Avatar, both of them.
You know what I donāt like?
Sports.
Thereās no politics in sports.
It doesnāt matter if the Red Bears or the Blue Tigers win the Ball Cup this year. Theyāll just play again next year. It doesnāt matter. It doesnāt make me think. Itās not controversial. Itās not meaningful. Itās boring.
Women in games is not political. Accurate depictions of history are not political. Queer people being happy is not political.
Just because right-wingers say they are doesnāt make that true. By stating that they are because they claim them to be, you give into them and find yourself playing a game in which the rules are dictated by them and what plays into their advantage.
Thatās how we got here with trans rights to begin with. They were not political, and they still arenāt, but because some freaks with nothing better to do with their lives than complain about others decided to say that trans rights were political, and because some people decided to follow that up with ādebatesā rather than outright saying āthis is not politicalā, trans rights have been eroded to the point where āleft wingā politicians like Gavin Newsom are now seen in good light despite anti-trans policies.
Also āthereās no politics in sportsā. You are right, but if youāre going to work on that same pattern of logic, thereās literally a huge nothing burger over the Super Bowl halftime show right now that people are pretending is political. Like congrats, by following Republicans in saying this is now a political issue, youāre basically just allowing them to say āsee, theyāre confirming itās political, therefore letās get rid of rights for Puerto Ricansā or something along the lines.
I think youāre the one whoās playing the right wingersā game on their rules by choosing to agree with them that politics is bad. Iāve transcended their bullshit by deciding politics is good actually. Now youāre trying to convince me to agree with the right wingers that politics is bad so I can argue that Game of Thrones and Arcane donāt have any politics in them. That feels like losing to me. Why do I have to agree with fascists so I can disagree with them?
Show me a right-wing content creator who has claimed games arenāt political. Iāll wait.
They always say that itās political because a minority is in them, or because they didnāt make a woman eye candy.
Iām not gonna bother anymore.
EVERYTHING is political.
trumpās neck vagina is terrifying.
No. I refuse to reopen the pic to confirm.
come on donnie! Why being so coy? give us a 500% tariff on all Chinese goods! Lets see how low can the line go!
