Don’t people have any hobbies, passions, or anything better to talk about? Politics and news are such boring conversations, full of intentional outrage and strife. I sure wish that we as an online community could break away from the divisive machinations of the disreputable media.
As someone else mentioned, a lot of this is related to bots basically pulling & posting from RSS feeds, but even aside from that, it’s the next easiest type of post to make outside of shitposts tbh. There’s always something happening that’s being reported in the news to share a link to, and there’s always something going on with politics.
Other subjects also have a lot going on, e.g. there’s also arguably a disproportionate amount of tech news being posted, but some other subjects take longer for anything of note to be shared/posted about, whether that’s scientific research or entertainment. Books, movies/shows, music, games, they all take longer to make and there’s not a ton many of them are allowed to discuss or share during the production process, so not as much to share or post about until the run-up to release, & after they’re released.
Besides all of that, I think a lot of people are still figuring out what they even want to post & discuss here outside of news/tech/politics/shitposts and meta-conversations like this.
Those are all great points and I appreciate the perspective. I guess I’m kind of in the same boat, not knowing what to post since the communities aren’t fully formed yet. Like I wanted to discuss a movie a few nights ago, but I checked the movie communities and there were only a few members, so I posted it to a private sub on Reddit which is the only one I still visit. I’d like to see more conversation here outside of news, politics, and tech, but I suppose I should be part of the solution and post some stuff myself. I’ve never been a big poster, mostly a commenter, but since Lemmy is young and growing, I’m sure other people like me would appreciate the interest related posts. Yes, I just decided, I will be more active about posting the type of content I’d like to discuss and help build the communities. Cool.