It does feel like that.

Oh no!
Well anyway, I use Arch btw

I'm loving science memes right now
- !science_memes@mander.xyz
- Science memes are like programming memes in that they teach me something because I have to look them up to get the joke.

That’s not true! There’s lots of politics! sobs
- And it's sometimes really local-interest stuff. My block list of commilunities is in the hundreds, because people create comms for their county/city/neighbourhood then that hits my frontpage
- And a lot of those politics are some of the worst takes imaginable
  Sighs and shakes head
  
  I agree, it'd be much easier if everyone just agreed with my ideas
  
  The best thing about this comment is that both the people you disagree with and the people you agree with will feel identified with it.
- Just block the communities that you don’t want to see content from. You always have the option to browse things while logged out to get a sense of what’s going on overall
  
  I do. And then sometimes it feels like there’s nothing left except politics (which doesn’t confine itself to communities focused on it)

What you are seeing is the internet in its true form. Trekkies and computer nerds are the only native fauna of the internet, everyone else is an invasive species.
- @DumbAceDragon you merely adopted the internet. I was born in it. Molded by it. When I saw broadband I was already a woman.
  I was chatting on local BBS with a 9600baud Hayes external that was a huge metal box which would get hot to the touch.

And DnD
Hey wait is this a nerd website
- Roll for perception....
  
  Natural 20
- There's not nearly enough D&D here
  
  I'd take other ttrpgs if possible
- Not quite! There's also a load of.... science memes... Fuck, it really is!
  
  Also... Programmer humor! Well, shit. Political discussion! No, let's be honest, that's a different breed of nerd stuff, but still nerd stuff.

You forgot about leftist infighting.
- Name a more iconic duo, leftists and infighting.
  
  JPF vs the PFJ?
  https://youtu.be/WboggjN_G-4?si=78-liE_B4zjkfppO
  
  Peanut butter and bananas.
- That don't trend very often when sorting by "All top 6hr".
  For me it's nice that you don't have to set any filters just Linux and Star Trek memes all the way down!
  
  Yeah exactly
  Also I almost understand the DND memes so it's great to have a break every 200 posts
- Mostly the liberals and the tankies. So, left infighting, maybe, leftist, not so much.
  
  I feel like the fact that you can name all of those as different groups means that you’ve already fallen for the feldspar trap.
  https://xkcd.com/2501/

What distro do you think they run on the Enterprise?
- It's definitely a Windows descendent, they have terrible security. Random people come on board and just take over the computer and/or engineering and/or the bridge with almost no effort and without alerting anyone.
  
  To be somewhat fair to the computer, it's often from Starfleet officers "showing people around" and by around I mean "look at our cool computer here's how to access the life support"
- ✅ Every ship is different ✅ Updates take forever to recompile ✅ Massive security vulnerabilities
  Oh no! They're running the Gentoo derivative I made as a teenager! Everybody run!
- Not sure, but the Borg definitely run Qubes OS
- (RedHat) Enterprise Linux, with LCARS desktop.
  https://lcarsde.github.io/
- @TheGiantKorean you'll pay for what you've done here this day.
  
  😂😈

- Everybody moved to !tenforward@lemmy.world because of some drama/bad mods at startrek.website.
  
  If there's one thing you can trust on the Internet, it's people to be honest about what happened in nerd drama
  
  That's not been my experience (the opposite actually), but the cool thing about the Fediverse is that it has room for all. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations!
  
  So what happened exactly?

Needs more battlestar galactica
- SO SAY WE ALL!
  
  SO SAY WE ALL!
- Beats, Bears, Battlestar Galactica
  
  Fact: bears eat beets.

- I see more complaining about communism than communism itself. Do you reply to users from Lemmygrad or something?
  Edit: Self-fullfulling prophecy in action. No wonder why I never saw it before. 😂
  
  I had to block all of lemmygrad and hexbear(?) to make it stop
  
  And further on from that the number of real tankies I've actually seen on here is miniscule compared to the howling mass of McCarthyites that crawl out of the woodwork.
- Propaganda is propaganda regardless of whether it's good, bad or understandable
  
  False dichotomy
  
  The mental cancer predates capitalism, and has also brutally manifested itself in parallel in socialist nations.
  Stalin, Mao, the Gang Of Four, Honecker, Hoxha, Kim Il-Sung, Ceauçescu, Pol Pot... the list is dismayingly long; so many tyrants as fucked up as anything one could come up with in capitalist nations, and even more. They tapped into the bloodlust of the oppressed, to build a new apparatus of oppression, their generals covered in a hundred solemn yet worthless medals, those bastards sure loved the status and pomp, displays and parades.
  These nations build walls not so much to keep a potential enemy out, but to keep their own people in. That should tell you enough you need to know about how life was in those places.

No, you'll still have all the memes about how it's only Linux and Star Trek content left.

It does work tho. In the past six months, I've became a proud Linux champion and really enjoy it. It's a nice change from Reddit celebrating women getting punched in the face.
- Eh, I'm quite a big fan of linux, but having Linux mentioned under almost literally every post here feels tiring 😅. Yes I use linux but no I don't want to constantly talk and think about my choice of operating system.
  Feels like switching to Linux solves all your life problems according to people here.
  My gf doesn't like me anymore. Have you tried switching to Linux?
  My bathroom door squeaks when opened. Have you tried switching to Linux?
  I have bad diarrhea. Have you tried switching to Linux?
  
  If you are having problems with all of the Linux posts then it's up to you to fix the problem. I'd suggest you buy an old Lenovo laptop and install Arch Linux and compile everything from source. That should solve this and a multitude of other problems in your life right now. 🙂
  
  Feels like switching to Linux solves all your life problems according to people here.
  That's because it does./s
- Can I run Linux on my chromebook?
  
  Isn't your Chrome book already running Linux?
  
  My mom's chromebook runs Debian.

Also by disabling anime, porn, news, star trek, star wars, lord of the rings and for some fucking reasons bluey and you can go through top day in an hour or somethin lol
- aaaaaaaand whyshouldIcare?
  
  Bluey's sucks
- So much anime. I finally understand what some users must feel about the Linux posts when I decided I was tired of seeing fang moe, cyber moe, cozy moe, coffee moe, sword moe, and other seemingly endless permutations on the *moe theme. Blocking one community seems to result in two taking its place, like some kind of hydra moe.
  
  Also all of em seems to be run by a user called mentaledge gotta say that's hella of an edge.
  
  How are you getting so much moe? Asking for a friend.

Don’t forget the porn, there’s a LOT of it.
- I almost never see any porn, despite having NSFW enabled
  I do occasionally see comments like yours saying you're drowning in porn. What exactly is going on here?
  
  Same for me. Depends on your instance and federation. I'm on ML and never seen porn a single time.
- That's a one check box in your settings and it's all gone. I see 0 of it
  
  I still see lewd ones and weird celeb ones even tho i disabled nsfw. Wish those /c/'s would mark themselves nsfw as i really don't wanna block instance level. Also ani social is notorious for posting lewd ones without tag .
- Sometimes I forget how much of that I filtered

You forgot our queer mates, there's surprisingly a lot more communities about this than I expected

I see lots of posts about cops being bad and religion being bad. And shitposting. Avalanches of it (for which I'm here).
- I'm on board for all three of those. Probably why I like it here

That's why I don't get the arguments about "x and y will kill the fediverse". Bruh there's nothing to kill in the first place.
- Fediverse is bigger than lemmy
  
  @headroom Watch this! Mastodon.

I am on a mission to flood lemmy with Deus Ex, Valve and Hopeposting memes.

OwO if you hide the Linux and Startreck then it's just porn.
- Nah that’s filtered by the NSFW option. All that’s left is comics and the most depressing politics
  
  These days we're getting depressing comics and depressing politics comics, too.
- If it was just regular porn it wouldn't be that bad. But the amount of furry porn I've seen here.
  
  yellow curry, green curry, red curry, Japanese curry , Jamaican curry , and Indian curry
  Yum
  Also, um if y'all posted more normal porn then that's what you would see rising in all it's not our fault that you guys are prudes
- And those people obsessed with flashlights for since reason...

If you like trains then there are a few slightly active communities you can help contribute to. Just an example of a niche on Lemmy I'm trying to grow.
!cranetrainexcavators@lemmy.world
!trains@lemmy.ml
!melbournetrains@aussie.zone
!rail@feddit.uk
Maybe I will also try to revive !trainsimworld@lemmy.zip bc that's the game I'm currently enamoured with.
- @Rentlar while I think railheads are awesome people I'm not interested in trains, myself. I do like watching railheads light up when they get to see a train on YouTube. It's incredibly wholesome content.

Sort by new, it helps.
I'm not denying the preponderance of those two subjects, but there's plenty of other things too, even if you filter/block most nsfw stuff like I do. Mind you, there are days and times where new posts get scarce, but I think that's a good thing that indicates lemmy users aren't as addicted as other forums can be.

And news irrelevant to you and politics

you would have to filter out communism too ☭
- That's be the rest of Lemmy.

Those are the whole reasons most of us are here.
- Linux and Star Trek are the reason most people use Lemmy? Guess I didn't get that memo.

That's what Local is for, it gives you a feed with different things based off the fun little niche you signed up for!
- @match I'm only on Mastodon at the moment. One account to rule them all.
  
  you still have a local instance feed!

So, is politics in the Linux category or memes category?
- Modern politics is the prequel of star trek
  
  If we win.

Sir, our sensors are showing this to be the absence of everything. It is a void without matter or energy of any kind.

I filter out everything else

What about the obsessive hatred of automobiles?
- cities were built around them, they just get really inefficient as a city gets bigger. People are mad since most cities are just too far gone now.
  
  The fuckcars people are not bad because of traffic.
- dude that is the most toxic and blame-throwing community I have ever seen online, honestly edit: thanks for supporting my claim
  
  It cost an extra $3,000 a month to live in public transit/walking distance of my office. Fuck me for owning a car, right?

I'm doing my part with weed memes

I see plenty of Linux content as well, but I've barely seen anything about Star Trek.

I wouldn't call @The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website/@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world star trek only. He's here to provide us with all the memes.

I actually don't come here too often in part because I'm not interested in the topics that are popular here.
- If you block the communities that you aren't interested in it gets way better

I wouldn't mind the star trek stuff if star trek fans could meme. So much painfully shit spam from those boards.

!science_memes@mander.xyz

I see almost only lefust content. And its not always connected to startrek or Linux.
- I wish, too many neoliberals stinking up the place and trying to tip their landlords these days.
  
  I have only seen memes about these people which made fun of it.

What do you mean nothing? What about high-quality political expertise?

How do I disable that?

You forgot all the communities for each American football club

Filtered the that entire startrek instance but still quite a bit of content

I've never seen Star Trek content. I do see a lot of leftus stuff and I don't mean to be pejorative, just sharing what mostly appears to me.