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I browse Lemmy occasionally and it’s nice having real engagement on my comments and posts. But, many of my favorite hobbies have zero traction here. The board game communities are basically Ghost towns, and god forbid if I mention on here that I own an AVP and enjoy it. Much less expecting a whole community about it. So mainly Lemmy is just memes and bullshit scrolling. That and the absurd confirmation bias here, as well as the outright violence towards other political parties is nuts. I regularly see highly upvoted comments about “let’s just kill them, etc”. It’s fucking insane. Every time I mention this there’s a string of comments saying “they deserve to die” etc
Lemmy has a fair number of loud, toxic instances, communities, and users. On the other hand, it's easy to block all of them, and it's practically a requirement to enjoy lemmy.
So block with zero hesitation -- the only people that will give you crap about it are the people that are the problem in the first place.
I just don’t have the energy to continually filter through all the bullshit
The only sub I would regularly discuss politics in was a sub that had a "Be civil" rule.
You could argue and say shit about politicians, but name-calling directed at another user would get the comment deleted.
Of course, even that wouldn't be enough for some people even here...I remember someone who was creating multiple posts about how bad Lemmy is because someone said they were "butthurt" about downvotes, lol