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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What is extremely political to one person is just someone simply existing to another.

The term "no politics" in internet communities often actually means "only things that align with my politics". I've seen it over and over again for as long as I can remember

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I get that. But I just don't browse lemmy much anymore cause all I see is politics. I specifically went out of my way to not subscribe to political communities. But look at the top posts of [email protected], a community I subscribed to for posts about technology, not politics.

3 of the top 4 are about Trump. They are obviously political, there's no ambiguity there.

This is especially annoying as someone not from the US.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The devs should make it so the political tag is enabled by default. If you turn it off, your post isn't visible to other users. Because communicating with other people is politics.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's just a tool each instance can use as they see fit. It gives more options to people

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

It gives more options to mods, some of whom are people thag suck very much. Curate your own list of communities, instances and users.