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Suggestion: Just like a NSFW tag, it would help to have a Political tag. (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I would love to sometimes filter out any and all political posts, I think having this enabled as default on some instances would also be preferred by some users.

I'm a software dev, if it doesn't require a lot of work I'm happy to make a Pull Request for this feature, but do people want this? Is there anyone I should maybe talk to before starting, or anything I should know?

Edit: I realise it won't filter out ALL political posts, but even if it only catches half of the stuff, it could make the difference between being flooded with Trump/Musk news and not.

Some new users might turn away before knowing the can set filters etc. (which also aren't perfect)

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[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I’m going to pile on too.

No. Bad idea.

Crying ‘pOLiTics’ is the weak persons way of trying to steer the conversation away from topics they don’t want to talk about.

In the fediverse, if you don’t like a topic, one already has the feature they need. That is the ability to keep scrolling to find a topic one is seeking.

Quit whining about politics and avoid those groups at the party. Or do the personal work and figure out how to be a useful part of the conversation.

Don’t build your big tech bullshit into our fediverse. Curate your own communities and user blocklists.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (7 children)

What an odd take. We can filter out NSFW work so why shouldn’t we be able to filter other things we are not interested in or are contributing to our poor mental health.

I for one have filtered out Elon Musk and Trump because it is nauseating. If I’m in a headspace where I want to see them then I can remove the filters but generally I want to stop doom scrolling.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

We can filter out NSFW work

[citation needed]

I have that turned on, and I heavily lean on blocking communities and users, and I still get NSFW shit fairly regularly.

[–] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

I've been on Lemmy for years and have yet to see a single nsfw post.

I didn't realize they even existed.

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