I'll also point out that the statistic, if true, is not at all a universal metric because my All feed and your All feed are not the same if we're on different instances. Over here, I might see 5% political content if I squint just right, otherwise it's pretty much negligible.

[–] PlzGivHugs 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Its a rough estimate, yes, but I don't think its an unreasonable one. I mean, one of the biggest Lemmy instances (.ml) is named for a political ideology. Unless you're defederating from all of the biggest instances, politics will make up a majority of the active content available.

Regardless, thats besides the point. The point is the lack of non-politics content. I can't find content for Counter-Strike, or War Thunder, or Dota. Even Minecraft gets almost nothing, and its likely the most played game in the world. I know there is some other niches out there, but I'm using those as examples because they're all massive, multiplayer focused games, with content that lends itself to discussion or sharing, that I regularly have to go back to Reddit for to follow. Lemmy is lucky to get a post a week from all of them combined. If users can't find discussion on things they're interested in, at best they'll end up looking at broad-appeal communities from top or active (like politics) and at worst, they'll just leave.

Edit: I just did a quick check on my instance's active feed. Of the top 20 results, 10 were undeniably political, and two more were debatably so. So for a more tame instance, around 55% of content being politics is a realistic estimate. I also checked Lemmy.ml, since its one of the main instances new users are directed to, and it was 14 political to 6 not, so 70% there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Counter-Strike, or War Thunder, or Dota

Are those three still that popular? I'm a League of Legends player, and the game is much less active than let's say 5 years ago.

[email protected] or [email protected] on the other hand are quite active here

[–] PlzGivHugs 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

At time of writing this comment, CS2 is most active on Steam, Dota is second, and War Thunder is 16th. Even if you write CS2 off for having too many bots, (which is fair,) the other two are still very active and very popular.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I guess the overlap between those games populations and Lemmy is quite small.

When you think about it, [email protected] isn't that active for the most popular sport on the planet

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