People would use "Hide all political posts and comments" more often than any other filter

Good point. Many of us didn't get to choose whether we "are political"

Have to agree the amount of shitposts and memes on here is staggering.

I think filtering out everything that doesn't make sense outside the USA would be sufficient for me.

My ideal feature would scan American news for whatever ragebait they're pushing for the week, and just block that.

I genuinely appreciate how you put scare quotes on "becomes" in "becomes political", because it's legitimately baffling how some people think that Rage Against the Machine "wasn't political" before. Like, they literally donated their profits to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and interviewed Subcomandante Marcos for one of their video releases! You can hardly get more political!

I'm gay, and people who so much as allude to the fact I exist get accused of "being political"

I always find it's a certain type of person who complains about too much politics

But did you know that Trump is bad?

The feature request is in the repo: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/317

Apps can fill that gap to some degree now, but we need widespread adoption of tagging before it's very useful for this. I'm not sure lemmy itself will ever support that tbh. Reddit never had it, and there's a laundry list of issues already on the official tracker.

Maybe everyone that moderates a community that sees this could strongly consider the important tags being implemented at that level, if the C/ contains things that are difficult to filter via blocking.

As an example, there's no need for a C/ that's dedicated to knitting to mandate a political of nsfanything tag when that's not going to be part of the C/ to begin with. Not worth their time. Something a bit more generalized, like a meme C/ would be nice if they added politics tag for posts of that nature, maybe one for sexual (but not porn) subject matter, but wouldn't need an nsfl because that's not going to be allowed to begin with.

The app I use most, Connect, has filter function, but it's only as good as other users make their titles.

There's no such thing as a perfect filter though. Doesn't matter how it's implemented, there's always gaps.

We should still implement tags anyway but one of the issues is that people just won't tag their stuff properly. Happens on imgur all the time. Maybe people are lazy about it or maybe they know less people will see their post but it's frustrating.

I didn't spend much time there but r/politics always seemed more centrist liberal than leftist to me.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias

There is no unbiased news, all news is biased by the views of the author, the culture of the news institution and wider society and the dominant ideologies within the society.

Now, I’m not saying this is what you meant, but often I hear people requesting unbiased news when really what they’re asking for is news that reflects their internalized ideological perspective.

It’s also used to suggest that all perspectives have the same inherent value out to suggest that all media must offer the “opposing perspective” alongside the perspective of the authors.

Not all perspectives do have equal value though, nor do they deserve equal coverage. We don’t call out flat earth whack jobs “to get their perspective” every time NASA announces a new orbital satellite launch, because we recognize that their perspective won’t provide anything of value to the discussion.

Sync for Lemmy has keyword filters, I think. Or at the very least it's on the roadmap. I haven't tried them myself yet, only back on Sync for Reddit.