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This got reported as being not twitter or equal. I'm kind of on the fence about this. I see their point, but the original was twitter. Please tell me what you think in the comments, not just downvote or upvote. This will guide me in the future if we have any more posts like this.

Ignores the don't X here sign then gets mad when they aren't allowed to X

I already block so many keywords and communities here. It's hard to keep up.

Thank you mods for helping keep some places free of US politics.

I won't say all rules are valid or right, but this one just makes sense (in contrast to rules of some other communities, which outright ban certain opinions). Sometimes you don't want to hear about all the doom and gloom, and for many people, it's not good for their mental health to hear about it all the time. They know what's happening, they need some time off.

Daft_ish has got a real problem if they're that outraged by the mod's response. I've seen plenty of powertriping arseholes to be mad at in my time, but this isn't it.

US politics, including about the ICE murders, is spoken about more than enough across the English speaking internet.

I know as much about current US politics as I do my own country's politics, because you can't get away from it without blocking most posts on here.

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.

has a very mild run-in with one singular community's admin "That's it, I'm done with the entire platform !"

Lemmyshitposts doesn't have a rule against political posts and I fucking hate it. Shitposts are sacred. A shitpost is just silly, irreverent humor. That's it. The moment you bring an agenda into that space it changes into something else.

Not saying mod was wrong but… It’s weird how we define politics.

Like, if portals started randomly appearing all over the Earth, spawning little goblins that like to turn human bodies inside-out, that would pretty clearly not be politics — but only for like 2 months.

After a while, the political parties would settle on their positions (probably with one of them calling it a hoax), and from that point forward saying “I can’t believe people are okay with the inside-out goblins” will be labeled “political”.

Which I guess is basically how fascism wins so easily. As long as it’s impolite to acknowledge the horrors of the world, it’s okay for them to continue.

Time, place, audience. Daft_ish thinks Lemmy needs a reminder that Alex Pretti was murdered in broad daylight? Imagining them walking up to Greta Thunberg while she's eating a vegan soup for dinner and reminding her about how awful commercial fishing is

As somebody who just came here from Reddit, I find all of these communities refreshingly free of American politics.

The problem with cute animals now isn’t politics, it’s AI. I don’t want to watch ANY AI animals. Just the thought of being tricked into watching even 1/4 of a vid that ends up being AI, or giving it $$$ via views, has destroyed /awww and all the rest.

I hate this timeline.

I don't understand why have comms literally about politics and world news if you're just going to post the same stuff to any other comm that really doesn't need that kind of content. If people keep ignoring what belongs where, why have comms at all? Idk, maybe it's my OCD talking...

I have an ever growing list of blocked words on here, all in a futile attempt to limit how much US shit finds its insidious way into my feed. I really, really shouldn't fucking have to mute half the dictionary, just to be able to access the internet without getting pissed off.

I feel bad for those Americans who are suffering, and stand in solidarity with them. But man, it's relentless. I know far too much about US politics.

Also keyword blocking does fuck-all for screenshots of microblog posts to tangentially related communities... Every day I come across several US politics posts even with me deliberately not subscribing to any political or US-specific communities, and only looking at my subscriptions. (Admittedly reddit is much worse at this, with generic subs like r/AskReddit and r/LeopardsAteMyFace being inundated with Trump crap.)

I'm glad that those interested or in many cases, obsessed with politics have a place to discuss it but I have no interest in seeing it so In conjunction with instance and community blocking, I use the filters to block any new "hot" political word or phrase that I find my feed inundated with. Once the core block list is built, adding something new is only required every other week or so to keep the feed politics-free.

The instance and community blocks do the majority of the heavy lifting but a filter list is an absolute necessity to get rid of the users that insist on injecting politics into every community they find.

That being said. Is there a community to post thoughts that may be political in nature? Pretty much all of the communities I’ve seen (politics, etc) only allow links to articles in their rules.

Cute animal pictures inevitably leads to conversations like:

1. Pitbulls should be banned!
2. Cats are an invasive species that are terrible for the environment and you shouldn't let them outside
3. Vegan arguments against pets
4. Vegan arguments against feeding pets meat

Politics is just turning life into a legal model, the way physics turns the universe into a mathematical model. To ban politics is to ban life itself. It is incredibly naive to think you can do so.

Maybe you could ban US-cdntric discussion, but even that seems like a fool's errand. We live in a globally connected world and the US is one of the most dominant forces in that world. Like it or not, US politics impacts the entire planet.

My filters in Thunder:

• Trump
• Epstein
• ICE agent
• micropenis

Suggestions are welcome.

I can't listen to the radio or watch any broadcast media any longer because Trump politics will not shut the fuck up.

It has invaded every bit of american discourse and separating the two will be nigh impossible until the source of the disturbance is remedied. it is literally impossible as an american right now not to be about this crisis.

so yeah i get it. but the elephant in the room is conducting the score, and we are literally drowning with only social media as a place to expunge.

block me at

https://reddthat.com/c/7735_41st_ave_se_lacey_wa

and a large portion of my conflagrations towards media will be less visible.

otherwise i apologize for it when i contribute. and i hope that moderation like this helps.

When it comes to activism, I've often said that, 'most people know the difference between a good vegan and a bad vegan'. Being insufferable, overbearing, or pushing discussions where they aren't needed or wanted does nothing to help your cause, it usually does the opposite. When you talk to most people who ascribe to a certain political, lifestyle, or activist way of life, you'll usually find that most of them are pretty normal and non-pervasive people; IE you may never even know those details without asking them. This goes for most things. Fitness enthusiast vs gym bro. Music/Media enjoyers vs gatekeepers. Activist who promote and provide good accurate information in a hands off way, vs those who push political messaging where it's not wanted. Be a good vegan.