Hopefully things change once lemmy.world updates to 0.19 with scaled sorting. And maybe you guys and gals have some advice for fixing my issue.
To keep my feed fresh I subscribed to all the big communities full of memes. They do have engagement beyond funny jokes, but I’m tired of how political everything is.
I’m not trying to bury my head in the sand, on the contrary, im highly aware how much fascism has taken its grips on the world. But I don’t need to be reminded everytime I’m on lemmy.
So I’m hoping once scaled sorting is on lemmy.world, the lemmyverse will transform. I hope I start seeing my hobbyist community come to life.
Or if people have recommendations for large communities not full of politics that works too. Maybe memes and shitposts aren’t for me.
I’ve been active. Any time I share an opinion that isn’t in-step with the crowd, I get bombarded by people defending the status quo, insulting me, and telling me that I’m wrong because “just look at the downvotes” which is a hilarious metric.
I got banned from the Vegan community for suggesting that meat was deeply ingrained in our behavior from a cultural perspective, and simply messaging to other people that animals were alive and conscious wasn’t going to cut it if they wanted to reduce meat consumption.
I also tried to convince people that rubbing BLM/anti-“all lives matter” rhetoric in conservatives faces wasn’t going to convince them to support our movements, and the whole thing devolved into everyone throwing insults out, and not one person could ever explain why I was wrong.
Maybe becoming active on Lemmy isn’t a great thing lmao
Everything is politics. Half of us are here because of reedits bad politics.
I’m going to preface that this might feel like a personal attack but it’s meant for anybody who come across this response.
We didn’t come over here because of political reasons. Reddit didn’t all of the sudden give their views on gun rights or abortion. They changed their business model. That’s not politics.
Of course you can say anything is political, but thats on YOU. Why would you want to fill your head with all the negativity of the world, constantly? Can you personally solve the world’s crises? Go outside and look around at your local community and see the GOOD that is still happening right in your back yard.
I’m sorry that I’m hounding on you specifically, but you said something and I’m going to refute your statement.
Beyond that, it’s still good to have you here because it’s debates like this that keep lemmy thriving.
EDIT: I edited this post to be nicer. Doesnct change my view.
They changed their business model. That’s not politics.
That’s literally politics.
Reddit was able to change their API and essentially do whatever they wanted because they operate under a political system that gives power to corporations over individuals.
It doesn’t have to be this way. At&t used to be able to require you to use their proprietary phone. That’s not much different from Reddit requiring you to use their app.
We could have a different system. A system that gives data rights to individuals. A system that would require an API that allows 3rd parties – and therefore more competition and innovation – to exist.
I left the shitposts and it’s been much more fun. I’m there with you, I deal with anxiety. I’m an informed voter, I keep up with things, but when I’m scrolling and wasting time I don’t want to be bombarded with how terrible the world is. I just want to see cats and chuckle a bit.
You can tweak a lot of what you see. You can even make accounts for politics, and accounts for hobbies! That’s actually what I’m planning on doing soon.
