Let’s say Sunday is NoPo day, for example. I think we’d all be in a better mood that day.

Edit. Yikes. Way too many people taking this too seriously and missing the point.

No, I’m not trying to suppress your free speech.

No, this post is not oppressive of your political views in anyway.

No, this doesn’t have any baring whatsoever on what country you’re from.

If your response to this shower thought is a four paragraph rage you are already lost. Why are you in showerthoughts?

No, this does not have anything to do with subscriptions or blocking communities.

If you’re incapable of light jokes then no, you should not comment.

And finally, no, this is not a serious request post. I can’t believe that needs to be explained for half the people here…

153 points

Maybe you should start a No Politics campaign. Have some debates over the issue. Raise it with your leaders. Find out the impacts of the new policy. Get all of Lemmy to have a vote on it.

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35 points

Listen here you little shit!

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Or you can just block/ignore the stuff you don’t like. No need to force your preferences on everyone else.

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You cannot block and filter enough to escape from politics or anime on Lemmy.

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26 points

I have to specifically follow anime stuff to see anime stuff on Lemmy, what are you on?

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6 points

Just on the Everything feed with a bunch of filters & blocks, and a specific block for the word “anime”. I still end up blocking individual anime communities on a regular basis. That has been happening for over a year now, so there are a lot of them. I’m surprised you never see it. What are you on?

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7 points

I never see anime stuff, and i don’t mind anime so it’s not like I’ve blocked a bunch of places that have it

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0 points

Hmmm everything is political?

No. Everything is anime.

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8 points

Except that people find a way to insert politics into almost every thread. You’d have to block three quarters of the site and about half the users lol

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You know, it’s almost like politics affects everything. Strange thing that.

I don’t want to debate politics everytime myself, but the fact stays that at the end of the day, everything is political

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7 points

Wait, it’s all politics?

👩‍🚀🔫🐧

Always has been

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2 points

Exactly. That’s the whole point of link sharing sites, you can curate it to just show the things you’re interested in. Simply blocking like 5 politics-related communities will almost entirely wipe political content from your view.

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Not forcing your beliefs on everyone else? Well that’s certainly unAmerican of you! I’m not voting for the person YOU clearly support!

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55 points

Fair enough. While you’re at it, add a no anime day and a no Linux day as well. Or are we only removing things you don’t like?

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Not op but I’d be down for all three of those actually!

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5 points

At that point it might be better to just have a designated anime, Linux, and politics day (or two).

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16 points

OR! Categories that you can block, with mandatory category tags on each community and lying about the category results in perma-ban.

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8 points

And no memes

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Okay Buddy, this is where I draw the lines.

You can take my gun, but you can never take my memes!

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6 points

And a no snark day!

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8 points

Wouldn’t you like that

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43 points

I’d love to see more users / activity in the non-political niche and hobby communities. That’s my holiday wish.

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11 points

The 3d printing community is awesome and very active. Thanks ro them I fix my shitty printer. They help me so much every time I do something dumb and fuck my printer up.

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Yes, I have noticed a lot of activity in that community! I do some resin printing myself. Most folks in there appear to be using filament, but I’m grateful they are so active.

It’s not too surprising that some dedicated DIY 3d printing “maker” type people gravitate towards the fediverse.

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I use both. Love the resin one, Hate the fdm with all my heart

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6 points

Are we making wishes for Halloween now?

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Holiday wish??? Dude. It’s October! This is spooky season, then it’s turkey season THEN holiday season!

My rule of thumb is that anyone who puts up christmas decorations before Black Friday is a massive asshole, who sucks dick…but not very well. They use a lot of teeth in their blowjobs, because they have no sense of how things are supposed to be. They do things nobody wants.

That’s why you gotta wait until black friday. For now, it’s all about black cats, and murder. Blood is a decoration! Also, pumpkin spice…for some reason…

LOOK! I DON’T MAKE THE RULES!

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4 points

You should definitely tell Costco, who had Christmas decorations out in fucking JULY!

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4 points

Ok…I know Everette True is just a comic, but I’m REALLY channeling his spirit hearing that…

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Spooky holiday is still a holiday

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2 points

Feel free to have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world and its hobby threads

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0 points

Except they always become political as this is Lemmy

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38 points

Sure, or you could go outside and play on some days.

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