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I have no idea what point you’re trying to make here.
I’m equally inclined to think OP is actually arguing people shouldn’t have fun because things are collapsing all around us… Or making fun of those who post about such topics
I believe its more that OP is posting a meme communicating that they are not happy with Lemmy’s recent flooding of users that post mostly politically charged content. They see themselves among the people.having fun just posting and laughing at silly memes. The person behind yelling is the Lemmy users that post politically charged content, through comments, posts, and perhaps voting. They may not be referring directly to American politics, but other types of politics such as Social Politics.
It’s weird, I see a lot of people saying they dont see this content, but they must have a lot of filters turned on that filter out that content. Because I see a lot of content posted that is politically charged and I don’t typically want to engage in that content here. Lemmy wasn’t like it is now until sometime around the end of August. Not sure where this particular spike came from exactly but its tiring being constantly hounded by it. It doesn’t have to be in everything, you know?
I don’t see heaps of memes that are this politically charged but I do see this type of content. However- most politically charged content in my feed comes from international news or environmental communities so it makes sense to be there.
What has always been around since I’ve joined is communist shitposting, and it’s the only type of politically charged content I see frequently enough to just go “ugh, again” whenever I see it.
I agree with you in that it doesn’t have to be everywhere, though. I don’t think I have many filters on, to what communities are you subscribed that this is taking over your feed?
I don’t know exactly the correlation, since it seems to be all over. News, entertainment, and other even niche communities have a lot of politically motivated content that gets posted that is not just silly memes or factual reporting, or on-topic discussion.
Yeah, I saw the communist stuff too. But I set filters early on that hide content by keyword in Connect for Lemmy, which is what I typically use for browsing. I filter all content mentioning pretty much anything political and a few other subjects, but a lot of content still gets through because it doesnt trigger the keyword detection. The filters really helped to hide all that stuff early on, so it hasnt been as bad as when I first joined, but things still get through pretty often. So now I just block users that post that stuff, since users will typically post more similar content.
Bonus round for those of you still playing:
As you can see I’ve depicted your argument as originating from an unappealing neck beard soyjack. How does it feel to have your position be refuted so soundly and thoroughly? My raw wit knows no bounds.
