To play devil's advocate - it's horrible when gaming, programming, business or even porn forums get overrun by politics.
It's not that the political topics are unimportant but all my feeds just end up looking the same as each other and the same as a newspaper app. I hate election nights because of this.
I miss that, too, but the way we get there is by re-establishing democratic norms and boundaries. The United States is flirting with fascism, and globally we are seeing the fallout from that and the cascading effects of climate change, not to mention the impacts of AI on employment, surveillance and censorship, social media, etc. Keeping politics out of forums like the ones you mentioned is like keeping oxygen out of a space station.
Porn forums are a thing. For example, this politician lost what should have been an easy election because someone found his old comments on a porn forum - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_North_Carolina_gubernator.... Among other things he commented on the forum that he'd like to bring slavery back.
Honestly did not believe that people commented on porn forums before this incident.
Politics are also never discussed with any level of depth. At best, it each side throwing in their opening arguments and nothing more. More often you don't even get that and instead have attacking people directly, stereotyping, straw manning, and all sorts of logical fallacies. Discussion in such a situation does not happens, so either it is an ongoing war or some side wins and pushes out the rest. None of these outcomes would seem beneficial for here, and while I do think there would be some slightly longer form discussions here compared to most places, I don't think it would be enough to avoid the eventual decay.
But look at it this way: I see the us political spectrum melting down into authoritarianism and you’re complaining you don’t need to be reminded of it.
A similar analogy would be if we are at your house, and it catches fire, and you complain that it is interfering with watching Netflix while I’m trying to call 911 for help.
From my perspective you are ignoring your own demise and from your perspective I’m just being annoying.
I think it's a stretch to suggest _all_ are, I'm not sure I could believe that a game like Super Hexagon is political. Would it be political to paint the tree in your backyard, or to draw a picture of your cat?
While I have absolutely no idea what the politics of Super Hexagon could be framed as, with regards to the paintings, yes. Having a tree, having a backyard, having a pet (or a cat specifically), these aren't universal across cultures and ideologies and can carry slight, subtle, political messages. Politics don't have to be intentional.
You could say that this is having political implications rather than carrying a political message, but the politics are still lurking in there all the same.
It's not that the political topics are unimportant but all my feeds just end up looking the same as each other and the same as a newspaper app. I hate election nights because of this.