Just as the title suggest. Is there anyway we can prevent Lemmy from being such a giant sphere of political annoyance just like Reddit? No matter where you go on reddit before the API changes and even now, someone has to bring politics into it. Even in post or subreddits where it’s not needed.
So once again, is there anyway we can stop that from happening and just allow the communities in Lemmy to be genuine?
why does avoiding political discussion have to be the metric for “genuine conversation”? seems a bit biased and smallminded.
Pay no attention to the elephant in the room
Post, comment, upvote non-political stuff. It signals “I want to see more of this”.
Downvote political off-topic. Talking about Mao Zedong in a thread about cat pictures is no-good, just like talking about cats in a thread about Maoism*.
Note that I’m being fairly specific on the suggestion to downvote political off-topic. Politics can - and should - be discussed; but there’s a time and a place for everything.
*Unless you’re talking about 貓泽东, then both are on-topic. [/shitty joke]
Realistically, I think no.
While it would be nice, all it takes is one person making a comment that someone else declares is “political” to devolve a place into tit-for-tat political vitriol. And this extends into social politics as well. Unfortunately, so many people now have made their personal politics their identity, and look for opportunities to fight, argue, and moral grandstand. Pick literally any conversation about anything, and there are people that will determine the “red choice” or the “blue choice,” and will scream and yell the choice they think identifies with their color politics without forming an actual opinion themselves.
Maybe 20 years ago this would have been possible. But its not possible anymore.
I would say we’ve been able to prevent that here, so far. Would you disagree?
I certainly hope so. Shoving politics in everything is cancer.
