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Do whatever, ruleslawyering is not helpful. Is the community enjoying it? It stays. Is it detrimental? It gets removed. The "rules" should be more like guidelines to suggest to posters what type of content the intent of the community is, not what type of content is permissible.

Is someone posting vaguely in the direction of the intent of the community? That would be good enough for me.

Anyone trying to separate posts into increasingly niche communities (like the asinine dontdeadopeninside and nosafetysmokingfirst split on reddit) is not helping the community of posters and lurkers.

We need to keep the cycle going. Remove the post, so that OP can make their own fuck this I'm done post.

I don’t tend to think of wpt as specifically twitter posts. Maybe that’s how it started, but over time it has become a more generalized “screenshots of short text posts” type of thing in my mind. The “or similar” in the rules leaves a lot of ambiguity, but in my mind Twitter was always about short text posts, so any short text posts would fall under that “similar” umbrella. I wouldn’t object to seeing something from Facebook, Instagram, or Reddit being posted here as long as it was a text post and not super long, so it feels disingenuous to complain about a Lemmy post being here.

I havent read the rules of the comm. but ive always perceived whitepeopletwitter as a place to post text based social media screenshots.

People like this need to accept and understand that we don't want to talk about US politics everywhere, all the time.

"It's so unfair!" ... as if the identical thing is not being done to literally everyone else all the time. Toddler logic.

A nuance that people often miss about lemmy.ml's authoritarian policies - whereby they ban people from communities they've never even seen before - is not that it is done, but that when it is it cites a hidden set of rules that are nowhere ever written down. Little kid logic, where the rules mean whatever they feel like in that moment, and if you don't like it then feel free to try to stop them.

Some people here are pushing for fascist Reddit 2.0, others for free-speech Voat, but most of us just want to get along somewhere in the middle without too much bother:-P.

And a respectful and considerate encounter at that

Which is to say that some of us would just like to have a space to NOT talk or think about politics, including US politics.

Inb4: "You're just privileged enough not to have to think about it."

No, I just want a brief goddamn respite every once in a while, everybody deserves that. Just because I want to be able to escape into a fantasy world sometimes doesn't mean that I never talk about politics either, it's like cheating on your diet, just let me have a fucking cookie every now and again ffs!

There was a while there where I was really into wholesome memes. People really don’t get what wholesome is. I started getting legitimately upset at what people thought was appropriate there so I had to block the communities.

Yeah, so when I go to shitpost and people start taking the posts seriously, I try to say hey folks, look where you are, this isn't a serious community, let's keep the shit light.

And so yeah, when folks shoehorn political agendas into literally any community they can, I'll point out how it's got nothing to do with the community, and how it's frustrating, because it does not further the community, it just furthers that person's (or bot's) agenda.