It'd be cool, and fun, if all of Lemmy had a certain no-politics day.
It'd be cool, and fun, if all of Lemmy had a certain no-politics day.
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.
Or you can just block/ignore the stuff you don't like. No need to force your preferences on everyone else.
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?
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Always has been
Not forcing your beliefs on everyone else? Well that's certainly unAmerican of you! I'm not voting for the person YOU clearly support!
Fair enough. While you’re at it, add a no anime day and a no Linux day as well. Or are we only removing things you don’t like?
Not op but I’d be down for all three of those actually!
At that point it might be better to just have a designated anime, Linux, and politics day (or two).
And no memes
Okay Buddy, this is where I draw the lines.
You can take my gun, but you can never take my memes!
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.
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!
Spooky holiday is still a holiday
Except they always become political as this is Lemmy
Feel free to have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world and its hobby threads
Sure, or you could go outside and play on some days.
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.
Usually this just means "no politics I disagree with."
"Missing the point"
From my POV, you're the one who's missing the point.
Thank you Anakin.
my struggle with stuff like this is that, because i am lgbt, my existence is considered "political".
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 problems is what constitutes as politics is very different to different people. Is a gay man posting about his relationship with his husband political?
Edit. Yikes. Way too many people taking this too seriously
People should take it seriously when anyone suggests curtailing their political speech. In this case it’s to create a little feel-good bubble for yourself, which is hardly a worthy justification. So yeah.
when anyone suggests curtailing their political speech
"We should have a day where nobody talks about politics" is less a comment on censorship and more a comment on the speaker likely feeling enervated by the Say Everything Do Nothing cycles of political discourse.
It's naive, self-serving, and myopic, to be sure. But it does illustrate an overall problem of these social forums. People rehashing the same arguments over and over again. People screaming at one another blindly, making all sorts of trollish comments and paranoid accusations, and generally harshing the vibe of the overall community, pleading and begging for annoymous randos to support this or that political candidate or policy... its not fun.
A day without political speech might be healthier for everyone's mental state, broadly speaking. But only for the moment, in the same way a man yanking himself up to the surface of a pool and gasping for air feels relief, before sinking below the surface again.
it’s to create a little feel-good bubble for yourself, which is hardly a worthy justification
When you feel helpless and impotent, its all you know how to ask for. A very sad state of affairs overall. Every day going online, expressing anger, doing nothing about it, logging off, encountering horrors in real world, feeling anxiety, and going back online to vent again.
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.
People who complain about “politics” on this platform really show their whole ass by revealing they’re actually just right-wing nutjobs or Russian trolls. So which are you?
Have you considered that some people actually get tired of the constant vitriol and negativity that accompany internet politics, even if you generally align with the prevailing opinions? Also god forbid you are actually centrist or conservative and want to be able to look at memes and tech news in peace without being reminded about The Illegitimate Colonizer State of Israel for the ten millionth time
Inconceivable
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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
That's what filters are for.
Good luck getting a tankie to shut the fuck up, sadly politics (or a tenuous grasp of) is all they know.
Poor little cretins.
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.
I like how everyone here is missing the point entirely. I don't want yet another heated comments section. Why is it to complicated to not have everyone dying on some random hill.
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
I feel like the entire comment section just proves the op's point ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Just wait a month, you'll be good.
I’m assuming you mean the US elections on November 5th. If you are, it’s not over just because the election is over. Mark my words, no matter who wins, it’ll be a category 5 shitstorm of more political posts that will ensue.
The irony is that this post itself is political.
I love the idea
You can have January 23rd. 2026. Unless that's within 3 years of infrastructure week. We need to do branding on that then.
In your edit where you say that many people take this too seriously, that's you taking it too seriously. Stop being so sensitive. Don't have a hissy fit. We're all just playing around, right?
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.
Love the idea, but good luck. Federation has some downsides, one of them being it will be literally impossible to get consensus on this from all servers.
Turns out there are numerous communities with no political content. One could choose to only read those, on any given day.
Do you have some suggestions?
I went thru my subscriptions, and perhaps these would be useful:
paramoror@lemm.world energy@slrpnk.net ancientinternet@lemmy.world sciencememes@mander.xyz technology@lemmy.ml hardware@lemmy.ml fediverse@lemmy.world auscovid19@a.gup.pe longcovid@a.gup.pe covid@hexbear.net stick@sh.itjust.workds archaeology@mander.xyz health@lemmy.world potatoism@lemmu.world funny@lemmy.ml humor@behaw.ort inhabitedbeauty@lemmy.world the_pack@lemmy.world permaculture@lemmy.world tea@lemmy.zip tea@a.gup.pe nature@rss.ponder.cat food@slrpunk.net gardening@lemmy.world pocketknife@lemmy.world humanitities@beehaw.org surrealmemes@sh.itjust.works
If you have any to add, lmk! Thanks!
Just block em. By blocking a half dozen politics subs and a dozen or so chronically online leftist agendaposters I've really cleared the air. Makes the experience a lot more enjoyable. :)
"Everything is political."
Missing the point.
What is the point?
On an individual community this could work, sure, but on the whole website you would effectively be closing certain communities entirely.
Upvoted because this comments section is nuts
I think we should also have an only politics day so we hate it even more. Something like clockwork orange maybe.
This is a joke but it could be interesting.
this is why i like to create lists (on social) or bookmark certain communities instead of subscribing or following so it can easily be put aside when i need a mental health day (which, being trans, is more often than not these days :|)
Yes!
If you don’t like politics, just move to a country where you don’t get to vote. Problem solved.
I use filters on voyager to block whatever annoys me.
No politics means to not speak to anyone. Anything can be construed as political speech.
