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Lemmy Babies of the Rexodus - it's been 9 months, how has Lemmy changed you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I feel ya. I tire of the politics here, and it can get extremely left leaning, like pro-communism/pro-socialism/~~pro-fascism~~ and very anti-American to the point where it's a little sus. I get it, there's always been anti-America sentiment surrounding conversations and in media all my life, but it's a bit extreme here.

I go onto social media to turn my brain off, not do elaborate research on the past 500 years of colonialism so that I can make sure I'm accurately arguing my point cohesively on this one comment. At the very least, I'll engage with conversations about tech when I'm not turning my brain off, but I hate politics/debate. I want a DDR/Stepmania/Etterna community where we can discuss new themes released, new songs on various cabinets, etc.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Fascism is not even close to left lol. But I agree there's too much politics sometimes. I don't mind arguing about it but it could be good to talk about other stuff. I suggest subscribing to communities that advertise other communities so we can help them.

Also browsing by scaled sort has helped me discover some new communities that my instance is connected.

And of course: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

I know just finding a new community doesn't guarantee it will have people in it, but we have to start posting in those empty communities and filling them with content. It's something I need to do a lot better with, too. I lurk too much.

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not seeing my reply show up, so doing it again in case the previous one got lost in the abyss: Subscribed to all 3 just now and I'm looking forward to enjoying some new communities! Thank you!

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Glad to help! I wish us both luck finding and reviving our favorite niche communities! I don't want to have to go back to Reddit lol. I want this whole fediverse thing to work out.

[–] RIP_Apollo@feddit.ch 1 points 5 months ago

Well said, I agree with you. The politics/debates can be so intense that it can prevent Lemmy from being a place where people go to just relax and switch off. Even the meme communities have so much political content.

And I suppose it’s only going to intensify during the U.S. election later this year.