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…
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.
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!
On lemmy? Cmon fam. There’s barely any anime down here
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
Hmmm everything is political?
No. Everything is anime.
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?
👩🚀🔫🐧
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!
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
Are we making wishes for Halloween now?
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…
Feel free to have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world and its hobby threads
Except they always become political as this is Lemmy
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.
It’s privilege.
When people don’t want to talk politics it’s because they have the luxury of not being affected every moment of their lives about said politics.
I.e. easy to switch off the ‘trans people should die’ rhetoric when you’re a cis gendered middle aged white man in a western country.
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
“Missing the point”
From my POV, you’re the one who’s missing the point.
Thank you Anakin.
Block Lemmy world politics and news subs and it will clear your feed.
It is way easier thing to do over expecting a bunch of people doing something together lol
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?
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.
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.
That’s what filters are for.
Keyword filters, then you can keep the rest of the news.
Where are the filters on the webUI?
Cuz I’ll fcking use them. Don’t think I won’t.not great, but you can use ublock origin eg
lemm.ee##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/keyword/i"))
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?
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?
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?
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.
Yes! We should elect officials from each community. Then have them get votes from their community and then we can get all the community heads together and decide what day it is. As long as it’s not at the start or end of the week. I think people who want that have bad genes and should get deported back to Reddit, and make Reddit pay for it.
If there is a community that has a mix of content you like, and content you don’t like, you can make a post / reach out to the mods to set up something like that.
It would be harder to do on the instance level, and impossible across instances.
For your request specifically: It’s very hard to define “politics” and so I would be against such a community rule. It would make a lot of unnecessary work for the mods and be annoying for users trying to post in a community they aren’t familiar with.
Personally, if I was still seeing the content I don’t like 85% of the time, I wouldn’t be that much happier. I’d rather just block it and be done with it.
Politics is anything involving US elections at this point
You can have January 23rd. 2026. Unless that’s within 3 years of infrastructure week. We need to do branding on that then.
This is outrageous! I demand February 2nd.
Okay I talked it over with the lizard people council and they agreed to February 31st.
Damn you lizard people! Damn you to hell!
Might as well shut down the whole damn site like nickelodeon day of play
On sunday, rfkill/airplane mode, and your internet will be politics free.
