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Wait until reddit shoots itself in the foot some more.
The Valve strategy.
The problem is that the average user on Reddit doesn't give a fuck about the ways the platform is shooting itself in the foot, because it's still functional, has a critical mass of users, and is still the de facto online global discussion forum.
Lemmy doesn't serve the function well enough because there are not enough of a variety of users driving niche topics. It's the same dozen topics I see every day. Star Trek memes, Linux discourse, data breach reports, stupid bullshit about Musk, incredibly biased political content and straight up propaganda; it gets extremely tiring to see the same stuff over and over knowing that's just what the current userbase enjoys discussing. It also doesn't help that the development team tacitly endorses the extremist propaganda spreading behavior on their server. You can go check mod and vote logs and see the development team actively encouraging all of this destructive behavior across the fediverse.
Agreed, it's tiring, that's why I recommend blocking all of these.
Then stuff like [email protected] or [email protected] starts to show up
Okay but the thing is, I like most of the Star Trek memes, Linux discourse, and data breach reports, as well as tech and environmental news.
Unfortunately, all of that stuff is literally inherently political, so you end up with massive biases depending on who is posting. We can't just divorce the concept of data breaches being carried out by state actors. We can't divorce Musk from the tech world (or the world in general) no matter how much we want to. We can't divorce the intersect between the trade and manufacturing conditions of China with the impact it has on the transition to renewable resources and electric vehicles.
If I start blocking everybody with a political bias I will have blocked literally all the major contributors on the platform. Everybody posting en masse has some kind of agenda, and that's usually fine. I enjoy seeing most of schizoidman's posts, but I know his bias is clearly towards the Chinese, as the majority of his posts clearly frame them in a positive light, with some of the content literally just being propaganda. If I block him, I block a considerable amount of EV news coming into the site, biased or not.
It's just not feasible to avoid politics here, unless you basically don't want to use the platform.
Thank you for your comment.
That's interesting, because I'm not blocking people, I'm blocking communities. A few examples:
You get the idea. So then, even if someone has a very strong political opinion, I don't miss their posts on [email protected]