• zLurn@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Yes please. It’s getting increasingly difficult to block US Politics from Lemmy. Unitedstatesians are so obsessed with it. I don’t want to be force to see it ALL OF THE TIME EVERYWHERE!

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      1 year ago

      If you have Sync or Connect you can block posts with political keywords:

      I don’t have anything against you American homies, it’s just the constant news coverage I’m trying to block

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      As a Unitedstatesian myself, while I like to keep informed of important events, even I like to get a break from the constant stream of the same news or meme or whatever being shared a dozen times, or in the case of today’s mugshot, 70+ times.

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      I think you’ll probably have to start blocking users. Not ideal, though.

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        Sometimes, it’s all you can do. The political talk is so heated people are starting to harass each other over it. It’s what the block feature is supposed to be for.

        Honestly, all of Lemmy needs to sit down and decide whether this is the direction they truly want to allow their platform to go in, because so far, I am not impressed.

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          I disagree that all of Lemmy needs to pick a direction. That’s the nice thing about instances. You can spin up your own and do what you want on there.

          I think a lot of this would be resolved by more features. Instance blocking on user side should be a thing, for example. I think some app does it, but it’s not a feature of the whole platform. Also, if there was a way to automatically link multiple communities of the same topic from different instances, I think it would cut down on a lot of the repetitive content we see on All. But that would have to be a feature you can toggle, otherwise I can imagine it breaking horribly.

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      1 year ago

      Unitedstatesians

      The word you want is “Americans”.

      I also would like political stuff kept out of non-political communities.

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      Political campaign funded bots/PR firms are the reason you see it saturate social media so badly. It’s not entirely because we’re obsessed with it, most people I know try to just live our lives and go vote when it’s actually election day and that’s about it.

      That is to say, it is very annoying to most of us, too, and I support the motion to ban political images/shitposts on the pics community.