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[Meta] Can we ban political posts?
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this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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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!
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
USA guy here. I don't give two fucks about politics at all. I block everyone that posts about it.
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.
You know what I do when social media gets repetitive? I get off social media and do something else.
I think you'll probably have to start blocking users. Not ideal, though.
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.
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.
The word you want is "Americans".
I also would like political stuff kept out of non-political communities.
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if U.S. is America, than why is it U.S. of America?
Canadians too are americans, like Mexicans are americans
imagine if Germans thought that European meant German 🤷
The U.S. are far from the only people that colloquially call us "Americans." This is a non issue.
And if you really want to be pedantic, all South Americans are Americans too.
what do you think about Usonian?
it sounds nice.
Make U.$. great again 🤮
It comes across more as a resident of a USO show to me.
yes, of course they are
It doesn't matter what makes sense to you. "American" is the correct term.
Do you also say "Unitedkingdomers" since the "British Isles" includes the Republic of Ireland?
no, you just say Irish, they're lucky like that.
when precision is needed, we also have English, Scottish, Welsh &c.
Mexicans and Canadians too are Americans. So i will just call you Bob from now on.
Hello Bob, how's your day?
American is the correct term. Nothing you say will change that.
i say abracadabra!
now you're just bob
Canadians and Mexicans are "North Americans". Brazilians are "South Americans". People who live in the US call themselves Americans. That's just how language works, buddy. If it irritates your pedantic bone so much, the only solution is to build a time machine to go back a few centuries and change it.
Nah man. Why give the whole continent a bad name just because the people in the middle of it are arseholes?
They didn't - they called it France.
Political campaign funded bots/PR firms are the reason you see it saturate social media so badly. It's not entirely because we're obsessed with it, most people I know try to just live our lives and go vote when it's actually election day and that's about it.
That is to say, it is very annoying to most of us, too, and I support the motion to ban political images/shitposts on the pics community.