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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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Okay, I understand what you're saying, and the funny thing is that I totally agree with you on your opinion about no politics rules. I think no politics rules are silly and too broad, too.
So, knowing that we agree on that, let's try to be precise here, because I think you still have some misguided views. Particularly :
"From this, I conclude that the statement “no politics in all major comms is a good thing” is a popular opinion around these parts."
From what I can tell, you're drawing that conclusion based on one post you saw with about 300 upvotes. This is a really flawed line of reasoning. Have you ever studied statistics or cognitive biases? I would really recommend it, because both of these areas show how easily the human mind can look at one recent or mentally prominent data point and fallaciously extrapolate a too-general conclusion from it. Lemmy has many users with many contradicting views, because we are all different people. Yes, there is a group of Lemmy users that wants to see less politics. But for you to conclude from the existence of that group that it is a dominant, or even popular opinion, is a really serious logical error. In fact, it is an issue with abstraction, exactly like you said. You need to be able to conceive of the community in the abstract, not from one single concrete post before your eyes.
Let's look at an actual sample of meaningful, multiple data points: the top posts of the last year.
https://discuss.tchncs.de/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=TopYear
Of the 22 posts on this page, 13 (more than half) of them are political, and many of them deal with unpleasant realities. The other posts are largely about the growth of the Fediverse, which is itself a politically charged topic to most users. From this, it seems clear to me that Lemmy is generally a highly political environment that actually enjoys talking about unpleasant realities.
I know that you had a few direct personal experiences that say otherwise, but this is why the capacity for abstraction aided by statistical thinking is so important.
I don't think we really have anything to discuss. But it's remarkable how hard you're trying to stick to your point of view. Still, this is getting us nowhere.
I'm just trying to help you out, you have a misunderstanding that is causing you frustration, and in fact that frustration is not based in reality. It's sad to see someone be upset about Lemmy being against being political, when Lemmy is extremely in favor of being political. You do inhabit the kind of community you seek, but your cognitive bias is preventing you from seeing that, and so you are upset for no reason.
I'll just try one more thing. If you look at the top 10 communities, https://discuss.tchncs.de/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMonth&page=1, you'll see that only 3 of them have rules against politics. This means that of those user activity counts, 67.7% of all activity has been in communities with zero rules against politics.
I know you want to be upset about this, and I know it's tempting to wallow in righteous indignation. You need to decide if you'd rather do that or open your eyes to the fact that you're already in a community which agrees with your stance on no politics rules. I am presenting solid reasoning with multiple data points comprising a hundred thousand users worth of activity, all you do is trot out the same post with 300 upvotes. Take a step back from your righteous indignation for a moment and consider that you may be wrong, and if you really want what you say you do, you should actually be happy at the prospect of that.