Similar to Stephen crowders bit. Post about something you believe in and want other people who believe you opposite to change your mind.
It's a wild time for the world, and the US in particular.
While we all like to get away from it from time to time, ignoring doesn’t make it go away. Social media is a way for people to connect, organize, and act together.
Politics wears me out but I do need to know what’s going on. So, I have multiple accounts with tailored feeds depending on my most common moods.
Looking at all/scaled right now for me. Only 1 out of 9 posts is political, plus this post which I'm going to call meta and not explicitly politics. The posts that get popular with high engagement are primarily political but I think other stuff is out there if you're willing to comment and vote on new posts.
What kind of communities do you enjoy ?
Yes, I've been browsing communities lately and looking and joining some cool ones.
Been posting non political stuff too besides this one post
I'm working on a directory (community list specifically, someone else is taking care of programming) [email protected] to make it easier to discover communities to follow and block communities you're not interested in because I also dislike the political stuff. I'm currently busy with other parts but soon I will be looking into ways to allow users to subscribe/block communities in bulk. Sharing this because I just happened to find this post while looking for communities for the directory.
E: here's the GH page for it: https://github.com/fnic-lemmy/lemmy-directory
How does it work ?
I will start working on a post describing what this directory is and how it works tomorrow. But it boils down to:
I work on markdown and organise communities in obsidian and then copy/pase it into github files which get synced into directory posts through script. It's to prevent a situation where posts are relying on one person and allow more people to work on the directory.
Weekly (soon every 2 weeks) posts made for each category where best posts from each community in the category are ranked for people to discover more communities they might like. Each category is posted by a separate bot so people who don't like a specific category can yeet out the bot and only see what they want.
I discover communities through my alt (this LW account). I do that by blocking communities that are already in the directory and communities that I don't want to add (at least short term) and subscribing to communities that I want to add. I sort by new.
You can follow the github page for the discussions and plans regarding the directory. Today I set up some milestones so you can take a look at them too: https://github.com/fnic-lemmy/lemmy-directory/milestones
I plan to finish the first milestone and announce the directory next week.
Almost forgot, the person working on the code is the other person you see on this github project. We also had small help with code from someone else that isn't as deep into the project as both of us are.
Bookmarking and sharing this thank you Dam ! You're gunna make a lot of people happy that's cool of you appreciate and admire the effort here
100% agree, Alice.
And the participation for the most part is heavily on the politics. I try to make our instance fun. I love and appreciate all of your comments to so thank you 😊 it just sucks man. Like wtf
And that makes sense to me as the various exoduses from Reddit were led by very political disputes.
I am actually also in the Fediverse due to politics, so I can't criticize them.
But I understand the frustration.
We live in political times, do we not?
It has a lot of star trek and porn too.
It seems like with most social media, people just jack themselves off to any opportunity to put their political opinion online as if they're someone influential or something.
It's fucking annoying. A bunch of dipshits with a megaphone
This is true of social media, whether it's about politics or not. People are just trying to get an audience