I get that. But I just don’t browse lemmy much anymore cause all I see is politics. I specifically went out of my way to not subscribe to political communities. But look at the top posts of !technology@lemmy.world, a community I subscribed to for posts about technology, not politics.
3 of the top 4 are about Trump. They are obviously political, there’s no ambiguity there.
This is especially annoying as someone not from the US.
That’s the same problem as people recommending Linux when Windows acts up. Just let people use whatever OS they want.
Oh I agree. Maybe not toxic per se, but extremely out of touch. I think what happened is it just became a bigger echo chamber, because from the already echo chamber reddit, all the people who are the type to switch to the fediverse (privacy focused, foss lovers) are on lemmy, with their opinions being spouted back at them, so it feels like everyone agrees, when really they’re a minority.
The biggest differing opinion between reddit and lemmy that I see is lemmy’s insistence that absolutely everyone should switch to linux. Of course I saw that on reddit a bit too, but it always had some pushback.
And of course there’s also the ignorance of the fediverse’s problems. Like people just can’t comprehend why someone wouldn’t switch to Mastodon or Lemmy.
This doesn’t apply to all topics though. There is still some good discussion here. Sometimes it can be better than reddit.
What’s weird is I don’t experience this on hacker news. People seem to be a lot less out of touch, and have a wider variety of opinions. Not entirely sure why, maybe because it’s had time to mature?
This is what drives people away from the fediverse. I don’t have this problem with any other social media I use (at least not to this degree). Twitter was the closest when I still used it, but even then that was somewhat fixed by just using your following feed and ignoring the algorithm. It’s especially annoying because it’s usually US-centric politics.
If your answer to complaints about Lemmy is “stop using it”, don’t be surprised that it doesn’t gain traction.