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[Meta] Can we ban political posts? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/pics@lemmy.world
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This community is for photography and interesting images. This isn't the place for shitposts about trump overshadowing quality posts. There's already 10 other communities people can go to for that.

!politicalhumor@lemmy.ml

!politicalmemes@lemmy.world

!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

!memes@lemmy.ml

And more. Can we ban these low effort political posts and go back to having a decent community? Thanks.

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[–] zLurn@lemmy.ml 63 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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!

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[–] TheObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago

USA guy here. I don't give two fucks about politics at all. I block everyone that posts about it.

[–] WaltJRimmer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 3 points 2 years ago

You know what I do when social media gets repetitive? I get off social media and do something else.

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] endofheatwave@lemmy.cafe 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago

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.