The Lemmy experience

Lemmy before i installed connect:

us politics us politics us politics

Lemmy after i filtered politics using connect:

Comments bitching about there being politics....

Cant win

Lemmy June 2023: China good, Ukraine bad, US dog poop

Welcome to the internet

I'm fine with USA politics, because they got their hands up in everyone's asses so it affects everyone.

What bothers me more is American football. Nobody except them even plays this game but it's all over the news every time there's a major event. Same for baseball.

I can't wait for Lemmy to get big enough that I can unsub from all the big Lemmies. On Reddit I had a bunch of niche communities that were pretty nice and not political. Now all those spammers I avoided have come here too and the Lemmies aren't big enough to avoid them yet.

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Americans are really annoying. They ruin the internet with their ability to turn ANYTHING and EVERYTHING into American politics. Even if it's about a cat on the opposite side of the world.

My favourite is posting a comment and having someone say "you voted for Biden, didn't you?". Nah, bro, I stepped foot in your country once and was mugged at gun point. I will never be back, let alone a fucking citizen of that shit hole.

You want to hear something spooky?

This isn't even an American election year yet.

My brother in christ you're the one who chooses their own content

This is interesting because, while I make a point of making and engaging with apolitical content, I am a lesbian.

I avoid news communities on every site I use and feel better for it.

Not true! I am currently having an argument over light bulbs!

photo of all Lemmy Users May 2023

Image 1 should just have a full frame impact font reading 'linux'. Neither are ideal.

You prefer bean stuff?

Ugh.. Wake Me Up, When September Ends.

Yep. I've blocked like 20 communities at this point

On my feed directly above and below this post are two posts from world news and they are both articles about russia.

FTFY

July 2023:
US polítics, US polítics, US polítics

September 2023:
US polítics, US polítics, US polítics

subscribed feed

Just wait til March and next September

ENJOY YOUR DEATH TRAP LEMMIES!

American tv show

This applies to mastodon as well.

And there is still no fire escape.

are you saying this is bad or good?

Still got October and November too

I don't sub to the politics or us news do when browsing only subbed I get much better results for content I care about

There's no fire exit on this site?

What's her problem?

I don't know why this is such a problem for people. You KNOW "politics" are the most ridiculous and absurd aspect of our society today. And people are fed up with them.

It filled with political trolls so gradually we didn't even notice

There are too many users on the right side though

That's weird. The thing that affects all our lives (in the US): What impacts wages, rent, education, social justice, the economy, cost for higher education, student loans, retirement, gas prices, inflation, cost of housing, policing, relations with other countries...

People are talking about that! Eww...

Don't like it? Don't click it. Or better yet get a Chrome extension that blocks out unwanted stuff.

I wish lemmy.ml would also ban politics so we could be finally free of hexbear and lemmygrad!

This is what happens when you don't have moderation tools on par with Mastodon or something moderated.

This is also what happens when mods don't moderate; when they write unclear, vague rules and don't have the power to enforce the rules anyways.

Seriously; a mod on lemmy can't do much. You don't like it? Go back to reddit; I hear they just introduced a really communist CQS system to allow the mods to really chill speech.

Boo fucking hoo.

Stop your whining.