I joined Lemmy a few days ago and have been reading around. 90%+ of the content I see, even on non-politics related communities, is political in some way. I have no interest in that, so it’s tiring, especially when it’s inserted in the comments of completely unrelated posts.
Because generally speaking, politics is at the end of the day the single most unfiying thing on earth.
Everyone and everything at every level is directly influenced by politics.
So when you get a bunch of people together on a topic and those people otherwise don’t know each other. They are only really able to communicate in passing with one or two things.
Politics and its relation to the topic. Or a narrow opinion on the topic. Maybe a joke or some other passing comment if you push it.
It’s what small talk is. And Lemmy like reddit and any other major general community is mostly goanna be small talk.
The more frequent commenters may learn each other or have more meaningful communication but that’s goanna be rare. And realistically any meaningful conversation is goanna be sparked either via a disagreement or agreement from the aforementioned poltical view or opinion shared.
Functionally if you don’t want to engage with politics at any level for any reason no matter what. Then you basically need to just stop using anonymous or impersonal forms of communication. Which basically means stop using public forums as a whole.
Cause it’s politics or the weather basically, and since no one is goanna talk about the weather your left with politics for small talk.
That or stick very strictly to forums that deal in a extremely EXTREMELY narrow topic. Like cat pictures with out captions.