Same. Though can we also add a button to hide all content pertaining to US state politics? “The governor of Arkansas-” I live in The Netherlands, that shit has no bearing on me
Same ! I live in india , but seems like i am wayyy to updated with us political news !ugh
To be fair, I am Lithuanian and a lot of stuff online goes like અને પછી તેઓ કેટલીક અસ્પષ્ટ ભાષા બોલવાનું શરૂ કરે છે
Well, since we’re here, what are the big news where you live these days?
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I kinda like it as a soap opera. I hate actual soaps, but this is a better version to watch.
I can go through so much popcorn.
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Her facial expressions and those in all that type of commercial piss me off so much
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As an american, yes please lol
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I got used to it, you just need to look at the US as a union of states like Europe, in which case Arkansas is about equivalent to Lithuania in population (although if you correct for the more states and less pop of the US you get Bulgaria or Finland if you use a ranked method) . The same could be done for China, India and Brazil.
Sir, how dare you insult Lithuania like that.
Alright, polandball time: I’ll ask around the EU++ who wants to play Arkansas in the school play…if nobody takes it, I’m giving it to Hungary :D because they’re being a dick lately. So, which state do you want? I hear Idaho’s nice :) Germany already took California, France took New York, Italy took Texas, Spain took Florida, the Netherlands took Pennsylvania, Poland took Illinois, Romania got Georgia, Sweden asked for Michigan and Austria asked for Massachusets, Finland got offered Indiana, but picked Arizona, lol etc etc…do you want Wisconsin? Also: UK guest starring as Canada lol
Idaho, the mountainous parts, are nice. Some of the people are nice. But in general, Idaho has some of the most batshit insane stuff happening in it in regards to cults and crazy people. It’s been getting crazier in recent years. They were an absolute mess during the pandemic and needed tons of help from other states who then couldn’t look after locals in need.
Didn’t realize Lithuania was under 3 million. For some reason I had it in my head that they were closer to 4-5. Insane.
It will when we stop being the Republic and get this Empire phase rolling.
A huge part of that is american-centric attitudes though. There is the politics sub on Lemmy.world and it’s only for US politics. But it’s not called “usonlypolitics” it’s called “politics”. Somehow they don’t see the problem with that.
Also the mods are been absolutely bellends about it and are refusing to even acknowledge that that is a problem.
But why would the world champions of egg handball see a problem with this?
Easy to be the world champion in egg handball if you’re the only country that plays that version of egg handball.
Give us an option to block memes as well then, my biggest issue with Lemmy is the tsunami of terrible and practically unavoidable memes. I don’t ever see sports content, rarely see NSFW content, there is a fair amount of Elon spam, but really the worst are the memes. Even doing my best to hide the meme communities they are unavoidable.
The main problem being that people have dug up the last 10 years of reddit memes to repost then on Lemmy.
If you’re not here for memes or porn then why?!
/s
If we hid meme communities, I’m not sure there would be any posts left.
I don’t mind memes but holy shit most of them are so bad and the volume is just too much.
The only two communities I blocked were just a barrage of memes straight to the frontpage.
More like hide all the furry boards
Shh… you can block communities. (You habe to see them at least once though :/)
Apparently you can block from within a comments section now. That’s slightly safer than going to a community front page…
There’s like 800 different furry communities, all for extremely specific fetishes.
Still, hiding all of them automatically would be nice
If they’re all on the same instance, there app that can block entire instances.
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I literally never seen anything Furry on Lemmy, but it took me 2 minutes on Bkuesky to find not one but two prolific Bara artists.
I’ve seen community names on a list that were furry stuff, but so far have not come across any.
That shit is so fucked. At least the sexual stuff. But even the look of more innocent kinds puts me off, personally. I’m ok with that kind existing, but I don’t wanna see it.
This with the power of a thousand suns
“Did you see that ludicrous display last night?”
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
The thing about Arsenal is that they always try and walk it in.
This is the only sports-related comment thread that is acceptable.
With Sync you can just pre-emptively filter based on keywords.
Nah, give me all them SuperbOwls.
Hentai is my favourite sport
I love Sync!
You little
Thanks, I never knew this is a thing.
I love not having to see any posts about Elon or Shitter. Sync is great.
Please tell me those are your whitelist keywords
Yeah everyone should enjoy the same things!
No. This is a perfect start of a blacklist.
Horrible. Next thing you know he is gonna block furry porn and wincest
It would be nice if every community had to pick a tag associated with it so that you can automatically filter out communities you have no interest in. E.g. Politics, news, memes, sports, tech, celebrities, TV/Movies, etc…
That’s a great idea. I’d prefer this instead of instances that are mainly focused on specific topics
I’d filter out Mr [Trump] and similar ilk immediately.
I wouldn’t. Seeming him go down in his current trail is just pure entertainment gold
“Hide all American news” would basically fix 50% of the issues.
I’d love a fediverse-wide tagging system for various kinds of NSFW (porn, gore, death…), Sports (ideally also by discipline), Anime, Music (again, with genres), Gaming etc. to hand-pick what I absolutely don’t want to see.
On some Mastodon clients you can block hashtags, and on Lemmy you can block communities, so we’re already pretty close. To do more would require a lot of self-tagging of posts and not everyone will do that. Or it would require analytics and automatic tagging that may not be accurate and would theoretically be a privacy nightmare.
I can never rely on people to self-tag posts. But tagging communities would be much more manageable and helpful.
And with apps we can filter text.
Maybe communities should come with default tags. That would make it a lot easier.
Do it like AO3 and enforce only about a dozen mandatory tags, and allow ‘choose not to tag’ tag if you don’t want to tag, and you can choose to filter out the choose not to tag content…
I really wish there could be tags and sub-tags.
Tag examples:
- Politics
- Sport
- Anime
- News
- AI
Sub-tag examples:
- US
- Europe
- Africa
- Basketball
- Volleyball
- F1
Some sort of curated list by Lemmy developers that might change over time depending on user demand.
Then client apps can fetch such list from any server and allow you to apply such filter.
Imagine being able to block whole category of sports? Anime? News? Whatever people want/don’t want.
I would like the platform itself to support this, as I often use the website.
That’s why he said Lemmy developers, not instance developers.
Yup, developers.
Instance admins adding such tags would make it inconsistent and basically impossible to use. It should be unified = implemented by Lemmy developers.
P.S. Developers who develop Lemmy software. Admins who own and manage instance (website/server).
I think this is the only good thing Tildes has with tags, tags can work as sub-comunities inside a sublemmy.
This would be freaking awesome. Doesn’t seem like it would be too difficult to add, but then again, I’m not a developer.
Honestly, I say we ditch NSFW as a on/off switch and go with a mandatory tagging system. We can clarify NSFW into content warning tags, e.g.
CW - Gore,CW - Death,CW - Breast,CW - Genitalia.Users could then set their own preferences on which tags would cause a post to be masked or simply hidden.
But why stop there? Tags could be very useful in our federated environment to help communities mesh better with each other.
Communities could be able to specify a list of mandatory tags, i.e. the Swallow community could require posts specify
African SwalloworEuropean Swallow(or both or neither). Communities could also make some tags implied, so the AfricanSwallow community might just imply that posts areAfrician Swallowunless user changes it.Underneath the hood, all tags are just treated as part of the post text, so the backend performance impact will be minimal. However moderation tools would be able to consider tags when deciding how to handle a post.
Of course, the server/instance owner can then simply make a policy of what kinds of content warnings they require, and communities can then build other tags on that to meet their community needs.
Yes but what is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
I don’t think I’ve seen a single post about sports in Lemmy. Ever. Same with mastodon.
I don’t think the group of people interested in sports and the group of tech savvy that use the fediverse overlap that much!
So why the shower though(t)? 😕
Well I’d still like to be clean.
This is actually my biggest complaint about fedi services. I really love the baseball communities on Reddit (not on Twitter, though, that shit is toxic and often very homophobic), and there’s just not a substitute elsewhere. I would love for baseball Lemmy to take off.
Where is the “hide all americans” button?
Especially US politics. I couldn’t care less.
Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
For any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
It’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.
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Since you’ve apparently seen so many, I would love for you to link me to a sports community that is actually active. Everything out there is completely dead, usually with one person reposting content from reddit or Twitter.
Haha that is true… I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sports community while browsing ‘All’.
Be the change you want to see in the world…
Here I am trying to find sports content.
I have yet to see active sports talk or news. But I’m also still figuring out this whole place.
Not going to happen anytime soon. Lemmy seems to have mostly drawn in early tech adopters, communists, Europeans who hate cars, and not-quite-pedophiles-but-close-enough-that-it-makes-me-concerned types.
I have yet to find any decent sports discussion here or anywhere in the fediverse.
Yeh I’d love a “hide all elon/twitter/x” toggle.
