Let’s say Sunday is NoPo day, for example. I think we’d all be in a better mood that day.
Edit. Yikes. Way too many people taking this too seriously and missing the point.
No, I’m not trying to suppress your free speech.
No, this post is not oppressive of your political views in anyway.
No, this doesn’t have any baring whatsoever on what country you’re from.
If your response to this shower thought is a four paragraph rage you are already lost. Why are you in showerthoughts?
No, this does not have anything to do with subscriptions or blocking communities.
If you’re incapable of light jokes then no, you should not comment.
And finally, no, this is not a serious request post. I can’t believe that needs to be explained for half the people here…
Good luck getting a tankie to shut the fuck up, sadly politics (or a tenuous grasp of) is all they know.
Poor little cretins.
“Tankie” ?? What’s that?
Tankies, also known as red fascists, are pretend leftists who uncritically support the USSR, Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Their only ideological basis is “USA bad”.
Count your lucky stars you’ve managed to stay ignorant to these folks.
You’ll know a tankie when one is with you.
That’s all I’m gonna say on it.
Someone you shouldn’t interact with
Ok… if I know who it is i might be able to avoid them better.
It’s a type of person, not any one person. You won’t really be able to avoid them completely here. They’re the type of person who won’t shut the fuck up about how the U.S. is actually an authoritarian state and glazes the fuck out of places like China/Soviet Russia.
You will likely see for yourself what I mean.
Oh man, that sounds like deep state Russian/China operatives trying to push an agenda. Something like that?
I can never really tell, truth be told. I just write them off as either being brainwashed or a bad actor. Same treatment either way.
I just wish people weren’t so aggressive with politics.
I’ve noticed a severe lack of perspective and empathy in these communities which has greatly deterred me from engaging.
Reddit was bad as well, but it seemed to attract a more rounded and informed community at least in the early days. Probably a function of fragmentation more than anything.
Maybe you should start a No Politics campaign. Have some debates over the issue. Raise it with your leaders. Find out the impacts of the new policy. Get all of Lemmy to have a vote on it.
Listen here you little shit!
Or you can just block/ignore the stuff you don’t like. No need to force your preferences on everyone else.
You cannot block and filter enough to escape from politics or anime on Lemmy.
I have to specifically follow anime stuff to see anime stuff on Lemmy, what are you on?
Just on the Everything feed with a bunch of filters & blocks, and a specific block for the word “anime”. I still end up blocking individual anime communities on a regular basis. That has been happening for over a year now, so there are a lot of them. I’m surprised you never see it. What are you on?
Subscribing to communities and browsing Subscribed by default, so that would explain something.
Ah, my subscribed communities get like one new post per month. So, I’d just not be on Lemmy if I was limited to my subscriptions.
On lemmy? Cmon fam. There’s barely any anime down here
Could we perhaps swap accounts? On my feed there’s NEVER anime related stuff, and as a fan of them this kinda sucks
Yes please!
I never see anime stuff, and i don’t mind anime so it’s not like I’ve blocked a bunch of places that have it
Except that people find a way to insert politics into almost every thread. You’d have to block three quarters of the site and about half the users lol
You know, it’s almost like politics affects everything. Strange thing that.
I don’t want to debate politics everytime myself, but the fact stays that at the end of the day, everything is political
Wait, it’s all politics?
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Always has been
Exactly. That’s the whole point of link sharing sites, you can curate it to just show the things you’re interested in. Simply blocking like 5 politics-related communities will almost entirely wipe political content from your view.
Not forcing your beliefs on everyone else? Well that’s certainly unAmerican of you! I’m not voting for the person YOU clearly support!
Fair enough. While you’re at it, add a no anime day and a no Linux day as well. Or are we only removing things you don’t like?
Could it be 3 different days ? Because I don’t want to spend one day per week staring at my walls
Not op but I’d be down for all three of those actually!
At that point it might be better to just have a designated anime, Linux, and politics day (or two).
OR! Categories that you can block, with mandatory category tags on each community and lying about the category results in perma-ban.
And no memes
Okay Buddy, this is where I draw the lines.
You can take my gun, but you can never take my memes!
And a no snark day!
Wouldn’t you like that
It’s hard not to find this kind of logic and desire to be naive and somewhat childish. I really do think it comes from a desire to go back to a time when you’re a child and you don’t have to worry about things.
I’d love to see more users / activity in the non-political niche and hobby communities. That’s my holiday wish.
The 3d printing community is awesome and very active. Thanks ro them I fix my shitty printer. They help me so much every time I do something dumb and fuck my printer up.
Yes, I have noticed a lot of activity in that community! I do some resin printing myself. Most folks in there appear to be using filament, but I’m grateful they are so active.
It’s not too surprising that some dedicated DIY 3d printing “maker” type people gravitate towards the fediverse.
I use both. Love the resin one, Hate the fdm with all my heart
Holiday wish??? Dude. It’s October! This is spooky season, then it’s turkey season THEN holiday season!
My rule of thumb is that anyone who puts up christmas decorations before Black Friday is a massive asshole, who sucks dick…but not very well. They use a lot of teeth in their blowjobs, because they have no sense of how things are supposed to be. They do things nobody wants.
That’s why you gotta wait until black friday. For now, it’s all about black cats, and murder. Blood is a decoration! Also, pumpkin spice…for some reason…
LOOK! I DON’T MAKE THE RULES!
You should definitely tell Costco, who had Christmas decorations out in fucking JULY!
Ok…I know Everette True is just a comic, but I’m REALLY channeling his spirit hearing that…
Spooky holiday is still a holiday
Are we making wishes for Halloween now?
Feel free to have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world and its hobby threads
Except they always become political as this is Lemmy
Sure, or you could go outside and play on some days.
my struggle with stuff like this is that, because i am lgbt, my existence is considered “political”.
my existence is considered “political”.
I wish this would give you (and others) a pause to reflect on held opinions.
i mean, what pause can i do? i would like to exist.
Are you saying my preference to exist in society and not be discriminated against is just an opinion to be debated? because i am very tired of debating that topic.
You aren’t going to stop existing because a held belief stops existing.
what held belief?
Whatever belief you’re holding. You’re not going to stop existing.
Politics is dirty. The propaganda is real and everywhere. Good propaganda pulls at “feeling” and “emotions.” If they can get you mad about something, the propaganda worked.
If your self identity is “political,” they have won. Thats exactly what they want. They got you. They will use you to help push their agenda. Im sorry this is rough, but it is what it is. I’m gonna say it… you’re going to be used as a pawn of the left.
Ah yes, sexual orientation isn’t political, that’s why every LGBT+ person has never had any issues with adoption, finding bathrooms that align with how they present (without committing a crime), have never been sent to a legal reeducation camp, and aren’t considered to be illegal in existence (man what was the Russian Government, a political entity’s take on LGBT+ folks and their relationships, I can’t remember).
What…
Maybe unfortunately, but the sexual orientation of folks (homosexuality) is definitely used as a tool by politicians to push certain agendas. Politicians will pander to these groups like they do to many other groups.
OOP said, “My existence is political.” And wasn’t wrong.
Reflection on held opinions is… political.
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“Missing the point”
From my POV, you’re the one who’s missing the point.
Thank you Anakin.
This is already possible, on any day of the week you desire, without affecting anybody else’s preferences. I assume you’ve subscribed to certain communities that you enjoy. If so, you simply switch your view to the Subscribed feeds. You can switch back anytime you want to All. As a bonus, you could even limit yourself to viewing only the communities on your instance by using Local.
I know that comes off a little snarky, but I don’t know what you do or don’t know, so I’m going with the assumption you don’t know. Otherwise, as others have suggested, you can block communities and instances, and also add keywords to filter out specific topics.
Edit: looks like it’s a feature request for the webui. I know Mlem has a keyword filter.
The issue is not politics posting. It’s politics posting in non-political subs. Like people posting about trump on this community and calling it a shower thought
I’d say the real issue then is that the mods should consider amending the rules to explicitly disallow political posts.
I concur
First we will form a committee that monitors and tracks posts for subject matter that may be political. There will be extensive lists of what is acceptable and what isn’t, topics that will be debated at length every week.
Then, roughly two months into NoPo days, a tampon v pad debate between a childfree estate lawyer and a closeted scentsy sales rep with a breeder fetish will spill over into other instances, inflaming users to pick sides. Both women will become icons on their respective feminine hygiene products until they are both viciously doxed and swatted by opposing communities.
One week after, NoPo days will ban any words related to period protection and thus incite a backlash from lemmy feminists and allied persons.
The committee will be fediversally disbanded only ten weeks into NoPo days and it’s members will be forced to make alt accounts in dishonor.
See, you get it. Just a simple day like you described.
Edit. Yikes. Way too many people taking this too seriously
People should take it seriously when anyone suggests curtailing their political speech. In this case it’s to create a little feel-good bubble for yourself, which is hardly a worthy justification. So yeah.
when anyone suggests curtailing their political speech
“We should have a day where nobody talks about politics” is less a comment on censorship and more a comment on the speaker likely feeling enervated by the Say Everything Do Nothing cycles of political discourse.
It’s naive, self-serving, and myopic, to be sure. But it does illustrate an overall problem of these social forums. People rehashing the same arguments over and over again. People screaming at one another blindly, making all sorts of trollish comments and paranoid accusations, and generally harshing the vibe of the overall community, pleading and begging for annoymous randos to support this or that political candidate or policy… its not fun.
A day without political speech might be healthier for everyone’s mental state, broadly speaking. But only for the moment, in the same way a man yanking himself up to the surface of a pool and gasping for air feels relief, before sinking below the surface again.
it’s to create a little feel-good bubble for yourself, which is hardly a worthy justification
When you feel helpless and impotent, its all you know how to ask for. A very sad state of affairs overall. Every day going online, expressing anger, doing nothing about it, logging off, encountering horrors in real world, feeling anxiety, and going back online to vent again.
Touch grass
Unfollow all the political communities and your issue will be solved.
Wasn’t looking for a solution, kid.
You were literally suggesting that the entire population of Lemmy change because you don’t want to read politics.
Yes, let’s take a shower thoughts post very serious. Smart choice.
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The problems is what constitutes as politics is very different to different people. Is a gay man posting about his relationship with his husband political?
Based on OPs willingness to admit that other people fighting for their very basic human rights as annoying, I’ll answer for them and say yes.
This. So many people’s lives are inherently political and opting out is a privilege.
Drag doesn’t think opting out is a privilege. Drag thinks being apolitical is a marginalised identity. Aroace people don’t participate in the political systems of romance and sex. ASPD people don’t respect political laws or norms. Drag thinks being political is the normal thing to do, and society punishes those who are less enmeshed in the dominant politics.
Drag gets blocked by a lot of people every time Drag comments like Drag is nine years old.
Why would it be?
Well that’s the fucking question now ain’t it.
Nobody was asking that question prior
Just him mentioning his husband would be political to some people, which is the point.
And in the context of having a politics-free day on Lemmy, why do you care about what those people think?
Because the decision of which politics is disallowed is a political discussion, and those people will bring their politics of bigotry to the table and argue that “no politics day” means minorities should be silenced.
Uh oh, you got politics in your no politics.
You’re on Lemmy, where the vast majority of people are left-leaning. Anyone who says this is going to be downvoted to hell.
Anybody who finds a man and a man in a relationship to be political needs to spend less time online
Yeah that’s nice, the rest of us have to deal with reality however. So while you’ve created a fantasy world in your head where things are just and perfect the rest of us don’t have that luxury. So let’s not pretend that things are all that simple eh?
Drag thinks gay people are political. Politics is when a group of people use a process for decision making. A gay couple is a group of people who have decided to date each other. That’s politics. Straight people are also political. Everything is political.
Aroace people are slightly less political than straight, gay, and bi people, but not by much, because they still have jobs and friendships and relatives.
People who complain about “politics” on this platform really show their whole ass by revealing they’re actually just right-wing nutjobs or Russian trolls. So which are you?
Have you considered that some people actually get tired of the constant vitriol and negativity that accompany internet politics, even if you generally align with the prevailing opinions? Also god forbid you are actually centrist or conservative and want to be able to look at memes and tech news in peace without being reminded about The Illegitimate Colonizer State of Israel for the ten millionth time
Inconceivable
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