Because the sole nature of Lemmy is political. The whole reason it exists is political. People want to move away from tech oligarchs and take control of their own spaces, of their data. Rotting on Reddit while all your data is being harvested and your interactions get turned into shareholder value is very convenient. Being on Lemmy is inconvenient (although it has become less so over the last year). So if you’re willing to ditch a very convenient platform because of your beliefs, and move to a platform that aligns more closely with said beliefs, then it’s fairly obvious why said platform is so political in nature.
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Just from the features and the convenience, Reddit is better. It’s bigger, it’s got more content, it’s easier, it’s more stable (or at least used to be). You don’t have to worry about your instance going under or anything like that.
The reason for the devs to invest their time to make lemmy and the apps and for admins to invest money and time into hosting and running the instances and for users to use this instead of Reddit is mainly the politics of wanting to have your own space with your own data.
There’s something comical about your discussion around leaving reddit and yet your comment starts like so much reddit trash.
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I’m tired of Lemmy users acting like they, on average, aren’t the people that people make fun of when they make fun of Redditors.
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The truth is the for a lot of us being here in the first place was a political stance.
I’ve started using keyword filters more and more. You’d be surprised how few you need to hide most of the political shouting.
Please provide me with tips!
“Slammed” and other hyperbolic words would probably be a good filter tbh. But politics words aren’t too hard to concieve.
President, DEI, Tarriff, administration, immigration, controversial, budget
Just to name a few.
Thanks
Beans are political if you look at it hard enough.
Also if you look at politics even more it also becomes beans.
Either embrace the absurdity or fight for the right to grow beans on your friend’s lakehouse farm while taking your clothes to your mom’s house so she can wash them for you.
Wait a minute,its all beans?
Even beans are political, mate.
I heard they even have a navy!
Especially soy beans
Where are the jeans and horses?
Ed Sheeran riding a horse in Britney’s denim dress. His hair is shaped like Saddam. His eyes are two giant beans.
Always hated the subtitles of Jeremy’s line here. It’s all it italics except the word “like”. Suggesting either every word has emphasis except that one word, which is nonsense. Or that the emphasis is on “like”, which doesn’t work either in this context. Plus I remember this episode, and I’m pretty sure he put emphasis on “I” and “this”…
Jeremy Clarkson:
Haha, I don’t get it. Does she say “I like this”?
Yes, with very weird emphasis.
“Can we stop talking about politics for a moment?”
“So, uh, does anyone like Furina from Genshin Impact?”
“HOLY SHIT, okay fine, let’s talk politics.”
Furina is a 10, next question
I dunno. I kinda wanna talk about how fucking good the new dark tranquility album is. But i doubt the people on Lemmy have heard anything related to its namesake Lemmy kilmister
everyone here is a leftist nerd, and the united states is at risk of falling under right-wing fascism.
That’s not public transportation!
It is if you leave the keys in the ignition.
insert [at this point I’m afraid to ask] meme
what is the “beans” thing?
Examples
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/582011
If you look up beans you’ll find a period of time where literally every meme were about beans
That and jeans for some reason
People like to complain, and if you’re even marginally aware of the recent headlines, there’s a LOT to complain about.
Exactly … I wouldn’t be talking about politics if politics had just stayed out of affecting my life in so many stupid, terrible and sometimes horrible ways
I prefer politics remain just plain boring press conferences from a dumb politician trying to figure out how to raise finances to build a highway or fix a bridge or upgrade water services.
It feels weird to have nostalgia for a time when the corrupt politicians, morally questionable revolutionaries and war crime loving generalissimos of the world at least tried to look respectable on the surface. You know, speak in complete, reasonably complex sentences and all that.
I’ll be honest: I’d probably still be talking about politics. But at least it’d be more confined to appropriate communities rather than spilling over into every aspect of life.
I hate to be that guy, but that is the NCC-1701 Refit, or the NCC-1701 A , not the NCC-1701, and I demand the meme be fixed, preferably by putting the old school enterprise in it.
Edit, this is the refit,
I was wondering if anyone would catch that.
Lying, I didn’t notice.
And I’m glad you’re that guy. We need that guy. Not everybody being that guy. But at least one that guy, to hold things straight and true.
You know what, how about you come over, and we can watch so much star trek you can indentify what enterprise is what on sight. I can supply popcorn
Im gonna that guy your that guy. If this is the refit it’s still the original enterprise. It’s no different to the ship of Theseus question, if anything it’s simpler than that old canard, so I’d say it’s still the same ship just upgraded.
The equivalent would be to require all pictures of some actor only be when they were young. I challenge your premise at the axiom here as it’s the same ship just upgraded at a point in time.
Gloves come off I understand you point, however the refit replaced a large section of the engineering hull, the nacells, that the only part I would call “origional” is maybe the primary saucer section hull, and the bulkheads, I would disagree that it was just upgraded, and upgrade would be from the pilot to the main series where the collectors had an upgrade. this feels much more like a new ship with extra steps.
Heh, well even by that definition I’d still say it’s the og enterprise. If we’re taking the nautical pov on things like a wooden sailing ship, they often had similar refit type work and were always the same “ship”. Example, Tally Ho rebuild on YouTube, you can argue all you want that there is barely any of the 1910 ship left, but no mariner would argue as such. The idea and spirit of the Tally Ho is alive in the rebuilt ship. She is as much the original as she is now or will be in the future.
Really it’s just a question of lineage or even idea. Much like a human with say cosmetic surgery to look like Barbie or Ken, the person is the same the bones are still there as it were. The name remains, the ship will change, or if you will the 4d path in time describes the ship through history.
It’s pretty easy to filter out most political stuff on Lemmy and Reddit and similar platforms. Just subscribe to communities you like and stay out of All. If I go to All, I know what I’m in for. That’s on me.
Respectfully I’d disagree. I can’t scroll through most of my meme or shitposting communities without seeing some politically flavored post, and there’s some kind of political comment on probably 85% of those posts. I get politics is an important topic but people often don’t have the class to keep politics out of the more “fun” communities. I keep to my subscribed list, block the spammers, but it’s fairly pervasive. I suppose that’s not all a bad thing as I get on social media a lot less atm. If you’ve got any additional tips though I’d love to hear them.
people often don’t have the class to keep politics out of the more “fun” communities
Smells like “I can’t be an asshole here cuz I’ll get called out for it”
If you’re using voyager you can filter words out, I’ve put a lot of the main political words in mine and only the odd one or 2 political posts get through.
Same here. If I want to read and argue politics, I click on main. If I want to pass some time and see funny images, I stay on subscribed.
Glossy bean
I’ve touched it
I’ve probably licked it
I 100% fucked it.
