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original post in: https://lemmy.world/post/23364294

You know, i do actually very often concur with these kinds of content, like the ones saying billionaires are leaches on society and governments are often used as a weapon to protect the ruling classes.

But man... when i come to lemmy i kinda want to only see memes, and funny stuff... even communities that are not niches to political content get political way too often. Like gotdammit, when i get to c/comics i just want to see funny drawings, i'm way too tired to want to see your lame class war comic...

Is that a feeling i'm the only one feeling?

edit: i think what makes it worse is that very often they're not even funny, just literal propaganda, "good guy propaganda", maybe, but still propaganda

edit n2: edited title and body slightly to be "open ended" on mod's request

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes I want it, sometimes I don't.

It'd be nice if I could collect channels into custom feeds, so I could have a separate feed for my political channels. And if those feeds could be shareable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'm more tired of dozens of reposts of the same porn that I can't filter out because NSFW is a catch-all for anything 18+. I also have an issue with the quality of the said porn :-P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Start making your own

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OP, please reword to be an open-ended question.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

People who complain about content on lemmy should probably just look for different communities. Or maybe not be psychotic right-wingers looking for 8chan edgelord content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Anarchist? No.

Communist? Yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That stuff is still a bit of a problem on reddit.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey you tried posting content instead of just bitching about what you "don't like to see"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

But don't you see, this is technically content

[–] [email protected] -2 points 18 hours ago

Ah a fellow enjoyer of sarcasm. Man you know what I miss those posts about people bitching about people bitching about reddit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The amount of hate I get every time when I call out political opinions posted as "memes" is incredible. Every time it's either some mental gymnastics about how it actually counts as meme or alternatively ad-hominem accusations about my underlaying motives of only calling out left-wing political memes and never right-wing ones (I wonder why).

The truth is that my feed is almost exclusively politics despite me blocking every single political instance other than the ones for general news. I bet there's even a community dedicated to political memes but no. Some people absolutely have to inject their political views everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

The amount of hate I get every time when I call out political opinions posted as "memes" is incredible.

Just gonna leave out the detail that you go to communities that are about the content you're seeing to complain about said content?

mental gymnastics about how it actually counts as meme

Still too stubborn to just admit you don't know what a meme is I see

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

I just had a look, because I remembered there was a "non-political memes" community. Turns out it's on lemmy.ml ([email protected]). Not the biggest fan of lemmy.ml due to the instance-wide bans: https://feddit.nl/post/16246531

I guess I might open a discussion on [email protected] to discuss a potential new community. Probably next year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, sometimes.

But, like Lemmy is (almost) entirely populated by people who so strongly disagreed with the political drama (either uspol or redditpol) of reddit that they took specific action about it.

It's a wonder Lemmy isn't all radical politics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I'm tired of seing the same superficial content everywhere in general. I just accept it and try to quickly scroll past them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My opinion:

I just wish someone would stop with all those leftist memes like ‘future of humanity under socialism vs. capitalism’ because it’s just, in a crude manner, cringe. They’re not very unique, and fail to underline even the basic differences between the two ideologies.

Capitalism is not understood by everyone here, and I feel like those making this stuff are extremely young, have yet to understand what the world offers.

It’s clear that socialism does have its merits but making memes simply mocking capitalism without showing crude memes… not worth it.

I just downvote those kind of posts, they’re awfully low quality and low effort.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

What annoys me is the assumption that socialism or communism would fix all of our problems and noone would ever do or feel something bad again.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

It does get very predictable and repetitive. I feel like the conversation goes the same way under each political meme.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't mind edgy leftist memes, I just get annoyed at how overconfident MLs in particular are about their broader grasp of political philosophy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love it when they try to give me reading assignments. I was there when the deep magic was written, freshman!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In 99% of the cases they haven't even read beyond the Wikipedia summary anyway, in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

You’re lucky if they get that far. I’ve had people argue over facts that were easily verifiable by multiple sources. I’m too old to do their research for them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I saw a post about someone who made sliders (mini hamburgers) and everyone they'd served them to so far liked them. I wish we had more posts like that one. The problem with Lemmy is there is not enough active niche communities for peoples interests. This is one thing Reddit does much better due to the scale of the user base.

It feels like a brief respite every time I stumble on a post like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

[email protected] to discover active communities

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You are not the only one. I am starting to unsubscribe from communities that I feel like it is simply too much of. I get that people want it, and that's their choice, but it's feeling a bit overwhelming lately. I thought it might decrease after the USA election but... nope.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

OP be careful, you've inadvertently spoken the sacred incantation and summoned the dreaded political content right into this very thread!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

No, but I don't see them much.

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