They look drunk because they’re blurry from camera probably weaving around a bit, and some shit’s on the lens. Cute kitties though.

Edit: yes, I know about the original Luddites, you’d be at least the fourth person to point it out. I get it, thanks 😄

It all depends. One one hand, “Luddite” can have almost lazy vibes, people who “blanket distrust” anything newer than fire because they can’t be fucked learning how the 'puter/rotary telephone/wheel works. Then there’s “this whole thing is a stupid grift which sucks at everything and can fuck right off, and here are several dozen good reasons why”

100%, it’s almost like a cheat code or something.

This is the (only) way, but it’s also like infinite whack-a-mole except slightly more irritating.

Listen I have left leaning politics but does every other post have to be about some political shit on the all tab,

Just every other? You must’ve spent quite some time filtering shit already, then.

You see, if you don’t like all the ragebait you are No True Leftist. Disagree with anyone at any time? Gotta hand that card in, bro, 'cause you’ve got to be some fascist or something. Or “shitlib” or whatever cringe terminology the tankies use. This may come as a shock to you but at least Random Angry Dipshit was kind enough to inform you about your entire political stance that you thought was something radically different. Neat trick, right? Aren’t you grateful? I know I am.

I feel like I’m forced into this box that is my subscribed feed or I have to actively search out new communities because all is just a political circle jerk that I don’t care about.

Correct! It’s also an unappealing and rather significant workload trying to find real activity on real communities on here to subscribe to, so /all is kinda it. Discoverability is garbage, one of many upshots of the way the federation gimmick was implemented.

Not to mention the moment I came back I saw a fucking flow chart on the instances drama of the week. If I wasn’t so dedicated to dropping Reddit I think the average Joe would have left by now seeing all of this.

I’m sure they mostly do, if they ever even learn of this place at all. That’s why it keeps being like this. Parts of the fedv are indistinguishable from satire or outright trolling - that’s not counting explicitly blatant troll instances like ml, gr*d and hb. I’d seriously thought some of the leftist infighting meme was… y’know, a meme… Or that “here, I disagree with this one thing you said and now you’re banned from X communities”, from people who spent the last sentence whining about Reddit moderators. (They are right in isolation, just big blubbering hypocrites.)

I’m not saying there ISNT other type of content on lemmy or piefed it just feels like the stuff that floats to the top is political

Engagementbait on a platform that isn’t even pushing “the algorithm” that way. Nifty, right?

It’s not going to change, or even get any less of a pain to try to curate unless tooling gets better. It won’t, because the Lemmy devs at least are tankie idiots who have no interest in making anything easy to curate (because then, the very first thing to go is their main shitholes for being blatant assholes to everyone except dictators)

Edit: on that note, instance blocks on ml, gr*d and hb are an absolute must

Anything can be a bannable offense when someone is enough of a little internet fascist. Probably won’t kill the fedv off entirely but is damn sure not a selling point for anyone not already here.

“Hey, you know the people who get all officious and pissy about the tiniest atom of your every utterance? No, not the altright, the ot- yeah. How would you like to go discuss shit on a forum where half the major instances act like that? No, not Reddit, you wouldn’t have heard of it as it’s pretty niche for some reason. No? Yeah, didn’t think so.”

If you want to blend in, getting a standout unusual and kinda “wrong” drink order would be counterproductive. In an “eccentric” enough crowd it might just pass, but the wiser choice if you’re a spy would’ve been… do more cocktail research, don’t end up going to a foofy place and ask for ice cubes in your wine etc.