And yes, I know people will say block keywords and communities, but people don’t understand some communities have rules and people must follow them.
This got reported as being not twitter or equal. I’m kind of on the fence about this. I see their point, but the original was twitter. Please tell me what you think in the comments, not just downvote or upvote. This will guide me in the future if we have any more posts like this.
People like this need to accept and understand that we don’t want to talk about US politics everywhere, all the time.
It probably shouldn’t be allowed in the future, but given that it has > 300 up-votes and is only now spurring a finer definition of the rule, I think it warrants an exception. If OP reads this, they now know to post this kinda thing in a different community in the future. But removing this particular post seems a little harsh.
Edit: This is an awesome approach to moderation btw. People like you make lemmy great, thank you!
It should be in YPTB, but they’ll just use that as more proof of their “outrage”.
I don’t see the original. All I see are Lemmy related images and that, to me, doesn’t belong here.
the original was twitter
As in, the post was originally on Twitter? I’m not sure what this means
I am not sure how this changes the “the post was against the states rules which are there for a reason and the mod was the absolute most gentle about it” facts.
Did I get the facts wrong?
Yes, that’s what I mean. It was on a twitter like site.
Sounds fine to me, if this is a picture of a Twitter-like site then I don’t really see an issue
I disagree, fascism is everyone’s problem, and ignoring it only gives it power.
Yes but having spaces where we do not talk about the scum of the earth is a totally different thing from ignoring the problem.
Yeah I’m not convinced it is. We know a big part of the issue is voter apathy, and if you aren’t furious then you aren’t paying attention. For you a politics free space might not enable apathy, but it very clearly does for many, many other people.
If people are being force-fed horrors at every turn, even in their happy little hobby place then that will feed apathy. People can only care for so much for so long before they get burnt out and don’t have the energy to care for others or themselves anymore. In which case, many people will stop caring for others simply so they have the mental and emotional resources to care for themselves
1930s: dae get tired of hearing about this hitler guy?
It’s OK to want to take a break from politics.
Agreed, I subscribe to a bunch of political stuff…but it is nice to take a mental health moment and laugh at somehting.
There’s also plenty of spaces on lemmy to discuss US politics. Not every space needs to accept posts like that.
As somebody who just came here from Reddit, I find all of these communities refreshingly free of American politics.
On a side note, welcome.
If you haven’t figured this out already and your front page feels stale, then switch around to “Hot,” “Top 6 Hours” or “Active.” Active is the default and feels stale on topics.
I like “scaled”
has a very mild run-in with one singular community’s admin “That’s it, I’m done with the entire platform !”
And a respectful and considerate encounter at that
Are they both the same person?
seems like a lot of people want strict rules and enforcement. bots can do some things like word substitutions and other obvious code-able things. human intervention takes longer. most people can scroll on to posts more to their liking. if there is no community that meets your standards, it’s a sign you need to start your own community and mod the way you want. i tend to not post in strictly modded groups. i’m not that pedantic and like groups where down-votes and comments do most of the moderation. spammers get removed soon enough.
Also keyword blocking does fuck-all for screenshots of microblog posts to tangentially related communities… Every day I come across several US politics posts even with me deliberately not subscribing to any political or US-specific communities, and only looking at my subscriptions. (Admittedly reddit is much worse at this, with generic subs like r/AskReddit and r/LeopardsAteMyFace being inundated with Trump crap.)
FYI, c/leoopardsatemyface is an OG political community.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/leopards-eating-peoples-faces-party
thanks, that was a bad example then :D
then instead: r/nottheonion and r/clevercomebacks
My filters in Thunder:
- Trump
- Epstein
- ICE agent
- micropenis
Suggestions are welcome.
DHS
Musk
Mass shooting Peace Nobel prise Israël Greenland
Time, place, audience. Daft_ish thinks Lemmy needs a reminder that Alex Pretti was murdered in broad daylight? Imagining them walking up to Greta Thunberg while she’s eating a vegan soup for dinner and reminding her about how awful commercial fishing is
Am I going mad or are the 2 stitched together images not from the same person? The comments are acting like they are though.
Top part = a mod deleting a post about American politics
Bottom part = a comment from a Lemmy person saying he has had enough with American politics on Lemmy.
They both agree? Right?
It was taken with voyager, that’s how voyager app takes photo of comment + post l.
So the bottom image is showing a comment on a post titled “Fuck Lemmy, i’m done” which I believe contained the top image. im assuming it was posted by the person that received the mod removal message in top image. the second image is mostly focusing on a comment from that post thread from another Lemmy user that disagrees with the OP’s take.
I struggle with words sometimes - idk if I made that more confusing lol.
I can’t listen to the radio or watch any broadcast media any longer because Trump politics will not shut the fuck up.
It has invaded every bit of american discourse and separating the two will be nigh impossible until the source of the disturbance is remedied. it is literally impossible as an american right now not to be about this crisis.
so yeah i get it. but the elephant in the room is conducting the score, and we are literally drowning with only social media as a place to expunge.
block me at
https://reddthat.com/c/7735_41st_ave_se_lacey_wa
and a large portion of my conflagrations towards media will be less visible.
otherwise i apologize for it when i contribute. and i hope that moderation like this helps.
Daft_ish has got a real problem if they’re that outraged by the mod’s response. I’ve seen plenty of powertriping arseholes to be mad at in my time, but this isn’t it.
US politics, including about the ICE murders, is spoken about more than enough across the English speaking internet.
I know as much about current US politics as I do my own country’s politics, because you can’t get away from it without blocking most posts on here.
Which is to say that some of us would just like to have a space to NOT talk or think about politics, including US politics.
Which is to say that some of us would just like to have a space to NOT talk or think about politics, including US politics.
Inb4: “You’re just privileged enough not to have to think about it.”
No, I just want a brief goddamn respite every once in a while, everybody deserves that. Just because I want to be able to escape into a fantasy world sometimes doesn’t mean that I never talk about politics either, it’s like cheating on your diet, just let me have a fucking cookie every now and again ffs!
This 100%. I care about politics. I deeply care about what’s happening with our country.
But I’ve had to pare down the places where I see it. I’ve stopped watching Last Week Tonight because it makes me feel so powerless on what I have control over. I absolutely love the show but I just…can’t anymore.
I’m acting locally, participating in whatever protests I can, calling and emailing my reps as often as I can.
But man…the right’s “flood the zone” works effectively and I can’t just keep burning out.
I have an ever growing list of blocked words on here, all in a futile attempt to limit how much US shit finds its insidious way into my feed. I really, really shouldn’t fucking have to mute half the dictionary, just to be able to access the internet without getting pissed off.
I feel bad for those Americans who are suffering, and stand in solidarity with them. But man, it’s relentless. I know far too much about US politics.
I’m in the same position and I agree.
Lemmyshitposts doesn’t have a rule against political posts and I fucking hate it. Shitposts are sacred. A shitpost is just silly, irreverent humor. That’s it. The moment you bring an agenda into that space it changes into something else.
There was a while there where I was really into wholesome memes. People really don’t get what wholesome is. I started getting legitimately upset at what people thought was appropriate there so I had to block the communities.
A few years ago on reddit I tried to put together a little multireddit of wholesome and positive-news subs, but so many of the posts were Orphan Crushing Machine material that I gave up :/
I remember that. It’s seems to have toned down a little but, like, no Lemmy, a murder revenge fantasy isn’t a wholesome meme. Jfc
I think that’s been dealt with since in case you want to check again.
Ignores the don’t X here sign then gets mad when they aren’t allowed to X
The issue with a “no politics” rule though is that everything is political. It ends up just being the mods removing what they want to remove and letting what they want to see stay.
“It’s so unfair!” … as if the identical thing is not being done to literally everyone else all the time. Toddler logic.
A nuance that people often miss about lemmy.ml’s authoritarian policies - whereby they ban people from communities they’ve never even seen before - is not that it is done, but that when it is it cites a hidden set of rules that are nowhere ever written down. Little kid logic, where the rules mean whatever they feel like in that moment, and if you don’t like it then feel free to try to stop them.
Some people here are pushing for fascist Reddit 2.0, others for free-speech Voat, but most of us just want to get along somewhere in the middle without too much bother:-P.
You mean these hidden rules at the top of the front page?
Those hidden rules, shown openly and have working links. So hidden. I heard McDonald’s hides the Big Mac from the public too.
The rules only matter if the admins adhere to them and enforces them consistently.
My recollection is that Voat took a turn into being fascist Reddit 2.0 pretty quickly itself.
Took about two seconds.
