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I mean.... he ain't exactly wrong. Lemmy IS primarily far left users at the moment. Some of them extremely left.
Like I understand that this particular user didn't really give it a fair shake, but lets not pretend those comments are wrong about that specific aspect of Lemmy. I have observed that you generally cannot have nuanced discussions on a myriad of topics on lemmy as there is a "right" and "wrong" stance in the eyes of the majority here.
Some of y'all are so far left that anyone even a millimeter to the right of you is seen as the second coming of Adolf himself.
Now obviously I understand that Lemmy isn't homogeneous, but it definitely has a majority user base that leans so far left it's pretty much laying on the ground at this point.
Thats just my 2¢ as left leaning moderate.
I avoid news and political communities so I don't really know that the crowd is about over there. People on !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works and !gardening@lemmy.world are usually nice
Yeah if you avoid political subs and political topics in general Lemmy is great. But if you sort by Lemmy's version of "r/all" it's almost all political stuff and the comments are all primally unidirectional.
I browse All, but blocked all the news and politics on my main account. I check every few days on an alt.
That's probably the most sane way to approach politics these days. Check in once in awhile. Seeing it all day every day would drive anyone insane. And clearly it has for many people.
We should start a news service that gives you a summa of the week or something. So people can stay somewhat informed but not have it ruin every waking moment of their days...
That could be a cool community
There's probably a YouTuber that already does that, but lord knows they are probably biased in one direction or another. I miss purely factual reporting.
Trying to sanitize /all through the means of blocking half of Lemmy is way too much effort, and still won't produce a good experience I think. I personally prune and maintain an extensive subscribed list instead and almost exclusively browse /subscribed. That still lets me access /all (or /local) whenever I feel like it without having half the content blocked, but can still avoid news and politics in my day to day browsing.
If I used it more than just during downtime at work I would probably bother but really I just kinda mindlessly scroll between tasks at work. The nature of my work means it's a lot of hurry up and wait. So Lemmy fills the waiting portion. Once I'm home I have my full computer and all that I have no reason to be on Lemmy anymore lol
Yeah it's unfortunate it takes this much work to filter out the majority of the extremism, but I'm thinking it might be worth it. It took about 6 months to block the worst users on nextdoor but it made my feed infinitely more useful and pleasant, I am guessing the same thing here, time will tell.
It's so hard to find a user so aware and rational like you…