I just want to post a reminder that this is the general memes community, and we’d prefer for political memes to be directed to c/political_memes.

I don’t want to remove posts that already have conversations going (unless they’re getting out of hand) because I know there’s a lot to talk about, but Rule 2 will be enforced more strictly moving forward.

Thanks, TPM

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
    452·
    1 month ago

    It’s amazing how many people are raging about the rules of a couple communities about no politics when I can count dozens of active communities who are political based.

    Everything’s over. I’m mentally drained. I just want to zone out and look at memes.

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
    241·
    1 month ago

    Thank you for this. I know some people won’t appreciate it but not every community needs to be a full time political outlet.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPM
      111·
      1 month ago

      Sometimes people want a breather, myself included. If there weren’t so many other places to browse that kind of content, we wouldn’t have the rule.

      The population on Lemmy is very politically aware and has strong opinions, which is good, however that also means that it’s very easy for any community to become overwhelmed by it and suddenly have little else.

    • Lvxferre
      51·
      1 month ago

      In this context “politics” clearly conveys “things directly related to governments, such as wars, elections, or socio-economical ideologies”. It is only a subset of the definition of politics that you’re probably using, something like “things direct or indirectly related to human groups and their conflicts of interest”.

      We got a whole Lemmy to talk about Israel vs. Hamas, late stage capitalism, elections etc. We could - and should - have at least one community to chill and talk about other stuff, and without that rule we won’t have it. For example without that rule 99.99999% of the content as of late 2024 would be about Trump, as if Americans didn’t have multiple communities to talk about it already.

    • nl4real@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      It’s a good rule of thumb for media, but I don’t care for it’s use as a justification for constantly spamming low effort political memes like on r/adviceanimals. Winding yourself up about things you can’t control doesn’t make the world better, it just fucks up your mental health. There are no shortage of political communities to use on this site.