My politics don't conform to most parties or ideologies so I will almost always piss someone off. I look at most issues on their own and decide what makes the most sense to me. So I'm left on this and right on that but not part of any party.
I avoid it as much as I can. I’m not a fan of the outrage addiction, and I’m highly suspicious of gaining any reliable information about events from an echo-chamber, even if it’s on “my side” of the political spectrum.
That and even if I agree with a lot of the posts you’ll notice that they’re posted by the same people at a very alarming rate. I’ve ran through and blocked anyone who posts the same topic every 6 minutes. Since then my feed has been less monotonous and slightly more authentic.
I asked in a similar thread a while ago and the answer is no, you have to type them each out and as for importing you need to go into each user to block.
I blocked one heavy news poster and am probably about to block another. How do people reasonably find time to do this, precluding unfathomable resources and hired help to do everything but eat, sleep and excrete? Even then, why would you want to? I am a month into classes (they are depressing when you realize how business - centric and human adverse they are, but necessary for reasons), and not doing daily short walks and I already miss them. Even if reading and parsing that much news and politics is humanly possible, why would one want to do that?
I wasn't intending rudeness, and did perceive rudeness in the form of bigotry, in yours. I can see how my comment could be perceived that way, and when I feel some weird way about others, I go outside, if only for a few moments (heavy schedule for a few months). Connecting with sunshine, fresh air, green space, watching squirrels, birds, hugging my favorite tree does wonders to preserve my sanity. I hope you'll give it a try. I'm sorry I came off as rude, I was just taking a quick break between assignments, and I tend to be naturally terse, anyway, with exceptions. Like now.
Fair enough, I appreciate the explanation. I wasn’t being rude either, I’m warning people about how the Kremlin and CCP use shills on social media.
They’re authoritarian governments that regularly oppress, kill, lie, suppress information, and worse. They’re using the age old tactic of divide and conquer on social media because they can’t compete militarily. They’re here on Lemmy, especially on Hexbear, lemmygrad.ml, and Lemmy.ml.
Maybe, maybe not. Some people really do hold those opinions, for reasons not at all related to see see pee and Russia. Maybe they just noticed Big Business and billionaires get privatized profit and socialized loss while everyone else loses homes, then get criminalized for homelessness.
I'll say it again: we need to push hard to effectively address and correct conditions of despair, instead of criminalizing symptoms of despair.
No, not maybe. Definitely. But yes, they often highlight legitimate issues, including corporate influence on politics, obscene wealth inequality, and mistreatment of some classes of people.
oh 100% i avoid it completely. i advocate for things in my own space and my own community. I’m not wasting my time talking about this shit online with any of you. i already know what im doing in november and i know what i gotta do in my local community and i dont give a flying fuck what anyone on here has to say about any of it. aint trying to change a bunch of random stranger’s minds (especially when i know we already pretty much agree on all the shit im already going to be doing)
and instead of policing my communities to attempt to help create a politically tasteful environment for myself, id rather just … fucking avoid completely any political environment. problem solved, life easy
No. Being politically active is of the upmost importance to me right now. I’m exhausted, but this election year is a matter of survival for queer people.
Look if somebody is spewing propaganda and nobody is there to report the person to the mods and/or provide an opposing comment then the propaganda is going to run wild
I think you overstate how significantly social media impacts your local community and livelihood. like, it does, but not nearly as much as what you could do out in the world
I try to (except from here I guess). I feel like a lot of political discussions here lack any nuance, and are often very US-centric. I’m moderately left wing myself, but I still often feel like I have little in common with the sometimes extremely left viewpoints here. They are usually also seem to be defended in a very black and white way. If you don’t agree you’re quickly deemed a fascist or nazi.
Honestly, I feel like online discussions often don’t really achieve anything. Differing opinions are downvoted and often met with name-calling or accusations. I’d rather discuss in-person with friends and colleagues across the political spectrum, that tends to actually lead to a friendly sharing of thoughts rather than the unsatisfactory hate spewing you get online.
I only avoid discussions with the hardcore leftist anarchist/communist groups because there is a big overlap between those communities and absolutely brain dead moderation policies.
Comments that have been removed/gotten me temp banned from Lemmygrad and .Ml include:
“millions of people died under Stalins rule”(banned, “misinfo”)
Someone commented “nuke Texas” I said something to the effect of “yes blow up the 49% of Democratic voters” -comment removed, comment calling to nuke Texas left up
Having comments edited by bots and mods so you don’t hurt anyone’s fee fees
There are other examples if I go through the mod log. Lemmy.Ml in particular takes an absolutely wild amount of mod/admin actions compared to any instance.
Tl;Dr: yes but not because of politics, because Lemmy leftists are the fucking worst
Not necessarily, but I do engage less with it because there seems to be a lot of group think here (seems the majority are leftists and alternative viewpoints get downvoted).
If it was more distributed across the political spectrum, I might be more interested.
if a dozen people independently decide that your ideas are indefensible, to you that looks like a group, but really it’s just a bunch of people reading something shitty. to dismiss that as “group think” sort of highlights something about you more than the platform, doesn’t it?
You seem to be assuming the platform is a random, representative sample of the general population, which I don’t think holds up. I think it’s much more likely that there’s a reason the platform skews left, and my guess is that it’s a mix of:
the devs are pretty hardcore socialists, so the people who could put up with that in the early days were left-leaning - this is backed up by lemmy.ml generally being more leftist than most other instances
people too far right for other platforms probably already left for places like Truth Social, Voat (is that still a thing?), and similar platforms
people too far left for other platforms didn’t have a clear place to go AFAICT
people annoyed by Reddit’s corporatism probably lean more left on average; Reddit already leans left, so this would attract the more extreme of that population
That’s my take. I honestly don’t read too much into it, so I generally don’t bother with the political posts because the discussion seems a bit too group think-y to really be constructive.
If you have statistics from a broad, random sample that demonstrate that lemmy opinions are well distributed, I’m happy to change my mind. But “eat the rich” as a meme here really isn’t a thing I’ve experienced in real life, so I really don’t think lemmy is all that politically diverse.
Block certain communities, block certain people that sometimes go outside them with political posts. I’m guilty of that now and then so you should block me to.
My bad, I am posting while on my breaks at my part time jobs so sometimes I screw up. But lemmy is for everyone, you should make it how you want. Start utilizing the tools here to shape it your way.
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