Why is *all* of Lemmy filled with Anti Israel content?

I hope I will not get downvoted because I'm genuinely wondering

Lemmy almost has no users from neither Israel or Palestine, however most of communities filled with Anti Israel content, I even tried muting all news related communities, but now I see anti Israel content in completely unrelated communities, like https://lemmy.world/c/android and https://sopuli.xyz/c/memes

Is there a reason why Lemmy is so fixated on Israel/Palestine? Neither of other world conflicts get even close in terms of attention. It's neither a case on my microblogging Fediverse account or my most "algoritmic" social media, even kbin part of the Threadiverse seems not as obsessed with it, what's so different about Lemmy?

(Sorry for a bit clickbait-y title)

Edit: I actually might take down this post because half of people in replies completely misunderstood it

ijeff, (edited )
@ijeff@lemdro.id avatar

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.

Fitik,
@Fitik@fedia.io avatar

Hmm, actually now that you say it, it may be the actual reason, sounds pretty logical to me, even tho I do think (most?) Mod actions do get federated.

Blaze,
@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

To be investigated.

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.

Actually, I just checked, they are not.

Example:

LemmyKnowsBest,

maybe you should unsubscribe to anything that keeps filling up your front page with such things.

That’s what I do. I don’t see anything that I don’t want to see.

Fitik,
@Fitik@fedia.io avatar

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

ElcaineVolta,
@ElcaineVolta@kbin.social avatar

you wish fewer people were horrified and outraged over active genocide?

Fitik,
@Fitik@fedia.io avatar

Even if genocide happens as you say, I don't see any attention to other genocides in the world on there, only to this specific war

Seraph,
@Seraph@kbin.social avatar

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.

Maeve,

We’re not sure how much is real and how much is Western propaganda. It’s not like our own nations don’t lie to us.

Fitik,
@Fitik@fedia.io avatar

Western propoganda? I'm surprised you're on kbin and not on lemmygrad

Maeve,

You’re so aware! /s because it’s needed. WMD and Iraq. Gulf of Tonkin. Plenty more.

simple,

Because it’s the most recent world event. Were you not seeing constant discussions about Russia/Ukraine when that first started?

Fitik,
@Fitik@fedia.io avatar

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.

And is it the most recent world event?

Cylusthevirus,
@Cylusthevirus@kbin.social avatar

Nobody ever mentions Africa is what's weird to me.

PrinceWith999Enemies,

There’s a very dark joke in the international community.

How do you move an article about 50k people being killed in a natural disaster from the front page to page 15?

Start the article with “Yesterday in Africa…”

voidMainVoid,

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.

simple,

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?

Fitik,
@Fitik@fedia.io avatar

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

simple,

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.

Fitik,
@Fitik@fedia.io avatar

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.

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