Stop hanging out in spaces defined by political affiliation then. It’s your responsibility to chose spaces that meet your needs. Don’t hang out in the wrong place then sulk because it’s not what you want it to be.
Microsoft lied to consumers about Windows 10 being the last version ever, they do not allow you to opt out of data collection, and they are now forcing edge on the user despite being sued previously for forcing internet explorer on their users.
Closed source solution have a long history of exploiting the consumer. I chose lemmy because I want an open solution that prevents the monopolization users, and has a much better track record for not exploiting their users.
I didn’t come here to listen to political crap. Do I agree with a lot that is said? For the most part, yes. I think a lot of the same minded people are on lemmy for a reason.
However, this does not mean I want to be flooded with politics 24/7. I would like to be able to get away from politics at times.
You’re not on “Lemmy”. Your a pawb.social user on a Lemmy.ml community. Lemmy.ml is not Lemmy. Lemmy.ml is an Lemmy instance (just like pawb.social.) The purpose of the Lemmy.ml instance is for communists to come together to talk communist shit. The memes community within Lemmy.ml therefore is an absolutely perfect place for them to post left-wing memes. If you want to see memes by and for a general purpose audience then hang out at at Lemmy.world memes community. It’s notLemmy.ml user’s fault you think they are a general purpose Lemmy instance like Lemmy.world is. That’s your fault and the solution is for you to make an effort to find the spaces that serve your needs not to pick random spaces and tell them they are doing it wrong for not alligning to your incorrect expectations.
Depends whether or not you think most instances should take a stance against the far left. Personally I think the fact people treat Lemmy.ml as a generic all purpose sub rather than focusing that effort onto places like lemmy.world or lemm.ee is pretty messy and will only continue to create more and more issues. As for creating your own instance and defederating, why do that rather than just block their communities as a user if you want to avoid communist groups? Presumably there is a reason you wanted to be part of Beehaw?
Sorry for the late reply. I think most of the confusion comes down to the design of lemmy. Because of the federation aspects that allows content to be easily shared between instances, it seems to me (and seemingly most other people newer to lemmy) that lemmy is designed as a primarry single network of multiple maintainers. which may have separate networks that are de-federeated from the rest (mostly private communities or free speech absolutists instances)
Additionally, lemmy.ml does not explicitly say anywhere on their front page that they are intended as a political instance. Neither does [email protected] make any mention that it is intended for political use. If you want to avoid people complaining about this, than some way to distinguish them is absolutely necessary, as I did not know about [email protected] because everyone on my instance just defaulted to [email protected].
If we want to avoid this, there needs to be a clearer indication that [email protected] is intended for political use and individuals should use [email protected] for non political use.
Stop hanging out in spaces defined by political affiliation then. It’s your responsibility to chose spaces that meet your needs. Don’t hang out in the wrong place then sulk because it’s not what you want it to be.
I’m on lemmy because closed source solutions such as reddit, microsoft, apple, tesla, etc, have a record of exploiting their consumers.
Apple sells over priced products, designs them to fail, and then claims to protect your data while they secretly steal it (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/apple-sued-for-collecting-user-data-despite-opt-outs/ar-AA146IUj).
Microsoft lied to consumers about Windows 10 being the last version ever, they do not allow you to opt out of data collection, and they are now forcing edge on the user despite being sued previously for forcing internet explorer on their users.
Closed source solution have a long history of exploiting the consumer. I chose lemmy because I want an open solution that prevents the monopolization users, and has a much better track record for not exploiting their users.
I didn’t come here to listen to political crap. Do I agree with a lot that is said? For the most part, yes. I think a lot of the same minded people are on lemmy for a reason.
However, this does not mean I want to be flooded with politics 24/7. I would like to be able to get away from politics at times.
You’re not on “Lemmy”. Your a pawb.social user on a Lemmy.ml community. Lemmy.ml is not Lemmy. Lemmy.ml is an Lemmy instance (just like pawb.social.) The purpose of the Lemmy.ml instance is for communists to come together to talk communist shit. The memes community within Lemmy.ml therefore is an absolutely perfect place for them to post left-wing memes. If you want to see memes by and for a general purpose audience then hang out at at Lemmy.world memes community. It’s not Lemmy.ml user’s fault you think they are a general purpose Lemmy instance like Lemmy.world is. That’s your fault and the solution is for you to make an effort to find the spaces that serve your needs not to pick random spaces and tell them they are doing it wrong for not alligning to your incorrect expectations.
Sounds like most instances need to defederate from lemmy.ml then. Or I need to make my own instance and defederate.
Depends whether or not you think most instances should take a stance against the far left. Personally I think the fact people treat Lemmy.ml as a generic all purpose sub rather than focusing that effort onto places like lemmy.world or lemm.ee is pretty messy and will only continue to create more and more issues. As for creating your own instance and defederating, why do that rather than just block their communities as a user if you want to avoid communist groups? Presumably there is a reason you wanted to be part of Beehaw?
Sorry for the late reply. I think most of the confusion comes down to the design of lemmy. Because of the federation aspects that allows content to be easily shared between instances, it seems to me (and seemingly most other people newer to lemmy) that lemmy is designed as a primarry single network of multiple maintainers. which may have separate networks that are de-federeated from the rest (mostly private communities or free speech absolutists instances)
Additionally, lemmy.ml does not explicitly say anywhere on their front page that they are intended as a political instance. Neither does [email protected] make any mention that it is intended for political use. If you want to avoid people complaining about this, than some way to distinguish them is absolutely necessary, as I did not know about [email protected] because everyone on my instance just defaulted to [email protected].
If we want to avoid this, there needs to be a clearer indication that [email protected] is intended for political use and individuals should use [email protected] for non political use.
Thanks for putting it so eloquently.
For example, memes on lemmy.world instead of lemmy.ml