YellowGas

Pretty much. I really struggle here to limit how much I have to read about politics, “tankies,” fascists/communists, nazis, defederation, etc. It’s everywhere. For fuck’s sake at least I felt insulated from political shit on Reddit for the most part. Yes, I know everyone thinks the USA sucks, landlords are bad, the rich should be shaken down, etc. Maybe that’s true! But I can’t listen to this shit anymore and it’s pushing me away from this site.

I love Lemmy, but I really struggle with the content here. Of course things are a little bare, but I have been able to find some really good stuff. My engagement is a lot higher here than on Reddit. However I find the litany of anti-work and political/left/right posts insufferable. They’re everywhere here. At least on Reddit I felt like I could insulate myself reasonably well from political stuff. c/mildlyinfuriating is an example of this. At least half of the posts I come across are blatantly political or are anti-work. I get it, work sucks and you don’t want to work and rich people/landlords bad. R/mildlyinfurating is a much better sub than ours is a community, imo. But I can’t surround myself with this kind of Lemmy content every day because it just angers me and I didn’t go to reddit to be angry every day. I have found myself drifting back to reddit for 60% of my usage. I hope this changes. I’ve tried to sub to different communities as well to limit how much I have to read about the latest communists and nazis and racists/fascists and tankies and all that Lemmy bullshit. Clearly I need to do a better job.

It’s definitely worth talking about and it makes me more than mildly infuriated because this affects me directly (as someone who administers anesthesia). But I think I’m just getting heavy political agenda vibes verses something that’s ACTUALLY mildly infuriating that other people can relate to. I’m being overly critical I’m sure. But for example - go to this community’s equivalent subreddit. There’s a post where someone bought diving goggles and the retailer placed price tag stickers on the LENSES of the goggles, leaving a gooey residue. That’s definitely mildly infuriating and fitting for the sub. I just feel this post is low effort political outrage.

Does this really belong in this community? Is this REALLY mildlyinfuriating?

Magic Runes, laddie.

Dad loved this photo. It’s his favorite plane. He always has something like this as his PC desktop background.

Am I the only one on mobile that tapped the comment button in the screenshot at least once? Sync had me HOOKED.

Jeez I read shower SHITTERS and came to laugh at all of the weirdos. Thankfully I don’t have to write off humanity as early as usual this morning.

“No one can predict the future…the least of all, Economists.” -Economics Explained

wow - I can’t thank you enough for the redirection to that post. I don’t know how I missed that post so far this morning. Thanks again.

How does this apply to the defederation of BeeHaw towards lemmy.world? I am on lemmy.world and can still view BeeHaw content. So I’m confused. If I go to !technology@beehaw.org, I can still post and comment.

edit: so clearly my confusion stems from my inability to understand the difference between !technology@beehaw.org and !technology on beehaw.org. They have the same posts and comments but !technology does not allow me to comment or post.