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)
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.
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.
[citation needed]
I have that turned on, and I heavily lean on blocking communities and users, and I still get NSFW shit fairly regularly.
Maybe it’s not a Lemmy thing and it’s an app thing, but Voyager has a setting to hide NSFW content.
I’ve been on Lemmy for years and have yet to see a single nsfw post.
I didn’t realize they even existed.
Then stop doomscrolling! The software is already baked into your noodle. Play with your cat instead or whatever.
I am sorry if you cannot process the current reality unfiltered but you have already identified the mechanisms to use to protect yourself.
The reason it is a dumb and abusable feature is that the word ‘politics’ is MEANINGLESS in this context.
Don’t like gay people? POLITICS! Do you like gay people? POLITICS!
A ‘politics’ tag is a tool for automating bulk censorship that YOU can and should be doing for yourself, manually. The entire point of the fediverse is that it bypasses that centralized mindset.
You decide what sort of politics give you heartburn and adjust your consumption accordingly. Outsourcing that decision making to others is morally lazy.
This is what drives people away from the fediverse. I don’t have this problem with any other social media I use (at least not to this degree). Twitter was the closest when I still used it, but even then that was somewhat fixed by just using your following feed and ignoring the algorithm. It’s especially annoying because it’s usually US-centric politics.
If your answer to complaints about Lemmy is “stop using it”, don’t be surprised that it doesn’t gain traction.
Nowhere in any terms of service did I vow to ‘grow the fediverse’. I do not want it to grow for growths sake. I have no obligation to spend my time online with anyone and I choose to spend it here. When this turns to shit, I will find another community that attracts the people I choose to associate with. Life is too damn short.
I never suggested anyone stop using lemmy. You projected that. I suggested they use the existing features to create the experience they desire and leave me out of it.
This is a bad suggestion for a feature that can only be misused. The meaning of ‘politics’ as a content tag is completely subjective and can only be abused.
So get off your high horse and don’t put words in my mouth. Make your own.
Said to someone with ADHD isn’t really something I was able to do without putting things in place to aid me to do that. The same way I couldn’t stop using Reddit all day until I got an app that locked me out of things after a certain duration.
You may do well to try and understand that not all peoples brains work the same and some people need more assistance than others to do things that seem easy.
You would do well to stop blaming ADHD and assuming you are the only one who leans that way. It is an excuse for nothing, nothing at all.
Stop doomscrolling!
If you need training wheels, then get a set. You are basically advocating that all bicycles include them by default. That’s not a mindset that I can be quiet about.
saying it bluntly is helping… doomscrolling is the problem, and it might not be easy to fix but it is the actual fix