"Is there a reason why Lemmy is so fixated on Israel/Palestine?"
I figure that people who take the time to swap to federated social media are generally going to be people that are a little more political...
and Israel is currently actively committing genocide. So political people are posting anti-israel posts. It's really not more complicated than that.
I know, I am completely not surprised by them, I am talking specifically about communities with zero relation to politics, to Israel or to Palestine. I apologize if I haven't made it clear enough in my original post
Can we switch accounts please?/s
Actually in one of the replies a person mentioned that it might be because of the mod actions not federating properly to kbin/mbin, and it's actually sounds as a logical reason, especially if you say that you haven't seen what I'm describing.
Are you asking why Lemmy has a lean towards political activism? Why the political activism is so heavily focused on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? Or why they’ve chosen the side that they have within that conflict?
All three are completely different questions, and all of them are complicated and also pretty much impossible to answer with any real confidence. But they’re interesting.
Anyways, which is the biggest thrust of your question?
I am talking about apolitical communities, or those that are supposed to be apolitical at least, i apologize if I haven't made it clear enough in my original thread.
I mean the moderators don’t usually take down political things from what I’ve seen. Memes on .ml for example is specifically okay with propaganda posters.
Apolitical communities formed of people that are otherwise more politically active sorts may see a little more politics than normal, during particularly emotional times.
I completely understand it and your point is valid.
However, I was talking about communities unrelated to it, I am not even apolitical myself, I say so because I usually have 2 separate accounts for interacting with political content and non political one, but when I tried to do it on Threadiverse - I failed.
Right. I was just saying that communities that are completely, 100% unrelated to politics, may begin to see more politics, during particularly emotional times.
So, in a community completely unrelated to politics, people can still talk about politics unless it is against the rules. So, during times when people are sad, angry or otherwise upset, it kinda just creeps in?
Make sure that if you really want to stay away from it, you look for communities where political discussion is specifically a ban-able offense. Those will usually have a lot less fighting and arguments.
As for why there is so much of this on Lemmy specifically, it’s because we are probably more politically active than most of the rest of the internet.
That's what I thought too, I mentioned in this reply that it was like that everywhere when the war have just started and when the Israel started to respond https://fedia.io/m/asklemmy@lemmy.world/t/433028/-/comment/2729986
However, it has been 59 days since the war start already and I don't see any less talking about this issues, unlike in other social media where it is limited to the political communities.
And thanks for the thoughtful and full response, it might be one of the best explanations I got in those replies, pretty well written.
No problem. That would start to bleed into the second of the questions I proposed earlier, and frankly, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is just special. Like, unique in many ways. So it dominates when it’s around, that’s the same every time it fires back up. There’s a lot of storied history, rooted in things everyone has studied and at least vaguely understands.
And this particular flare-up is particularly huge. Lots of big explosions, lots of footage, lots of carnage.
Zionists can’t help but cry regardless of what community they’re in. Add lemmy’s general stance against apartheid and oppressive government and you have a community primed to “pick on israel” when they’re actually just expressing their opinions. The zionists love to make themselves the victim regardless of actual circumstances
It’s the same as anywhere. FWIW obviously inflammatory stuff gets removed from !android under rule 9. Disagreements are okay, but folks are expected to keep things civil. Also an issue for kbin/mbin is that moderator removals aren’t federated probably to/from Lemmy.
If you use the spammers from the last two days as evidence for mod actions federation, those actions were not really federated (I know for sure that admin ones are not between Lemmy instances, let’s not even ask K/mbin), it was more than everyone was blocking the accounts on every instance.
I said in the reply that I tried, I have a separate non political account and I tried to do it on it, and it haven't worked, I still seen a lot of discuss relating to it on completely apolitical communities
This is a logical fallacy. For example just because the Uighur issue receives less present attention (because it's not NEW) doesn't make the latest attempt at genocide more acceptable.
Lemmy wasn't as popular back and even tho it had it's share of users, I wasn't on it, so I can't really say how it was on Lemmy
I have seen discussions about Russia-Ukrainian but I haven't seen them at all outside of the political communities on Lemmy, and they seem limited to certain communities.
People in the US are concerned about this genocide because we’re paying for it. The US sends Israel billions of dollars every year. This is our tax dollars at work.
What’s different about Lemmy compared to other sites? The Palestine/Israel conflict is the main topic point today. Everyone is talking about it everywhere, whether it be Reddit or Twitter. Are you up to date on the news?
I know it is the main political discourse, and yes I know how many attention it gets
But I don't see much attention to it outside of the political circles neither on Twitter or on Reddit outside of a few specific exceptions
Maybe you’re not subscribed to many places, I see it everywhere in my feeds. For what it’s worth I rarely see it on Lemmy outside of meme and politics communities.
On social media I usually have 2 accounts
1 political and 1 apolitical one, with different following and interactions in general.
On my apolitical accounts even if I got such content in first week or two when everyone were talking about it I stopped getting it on my feeds since then.
One of commenters pointed that it might be a problem with mod actions federating then, even tho I'm not sure if that's the reason.
Not a specific website, but digital gardens are super cool. They are like people’s personal wkis full of their thoughts and interests. It’s not like a chronological blog, but instead it’s a web of hyperlinks connecting thoughts and ideas together!
asklemmy
Hot
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.