• @zLurn@lemmy.ml
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    6711 months ago

    Yes please. It’s getting increasingly difficult to block US Politics from Lemmy. Unitedstatesians are so obsessed with it. I don’t want to be force to see it ALL OF THE TIME EVERYWHERE!

    • @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      If you have Sync or Connect you can block posts with political keywords:

      I don’t have anything against you American homies, it’s just the constant news coverage I’m trying to block

    • Walt J. Rimmer
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      1211 months ago

      As a Unitedstatesian myself, while I like to keep informed of important events, even I like to get a break from the constant stream of the same news or meme or whatever being shared a dozen times, or in the case of today’s mugshot, 70+ times.

    • vlad
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      I think you’ll probably have to start blocking users. Not ideal, though.

      • @endofheatwave@lemmy.cafe
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        011 months ago

        Sometimes, it’s all you can do. The political talk is so heated people are starting to harass each other over it. It’s what the block feature is supposed to be for.

        Honestly, all of Lemmy needs to sit down and decide whether this is the direction they truly want to allow their platform to go in, because so far, I am not impressed.

        • vlad
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          511 months ago

          I disagree that all of Lemmy needs to pick a direction. That’s the nice thing about instances. You can spin up your own and do what you want on there.

          I think a lot of this would be resolved by more features. Instance blocking on user side should be a thing, for example. I think some app does it, but it’s not a feature of the whole platform. Also, if there was a way to automatically link multiple communities of the same topic from different instances, I think it would cut down on a lot of the repetitive content we see on All. But that would have to be a feature you can toggle, otherwise I can imagine it breaking horribly.

    • @atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      -911 months ago

      Unitedstatesians

      The word you want is “Americans”.

      I also would like political stuff kept out of non-political communities.

      • merde alors
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        311 months ago

        if U.S. is America, than why is it U.S. of America?

        Canadians too are americans, like Mexicans are americans

        imagine if Germans thought that European meant German 🤷

        • @atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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          511 months ago

          It doesn’t matter what makes sense to you. “American” is the correct term.

          Do you also say “Unitedkingdomers” since the “British Isles” includes the Republic of Ireland?

          • merde alors
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            -111 months ago

            no, you just say Irish, they’re lucky like that.

            when precision is needed, we also have English, Scottish, Welsh &c.

            Mexicans and Canadians too are Americans. So i will just call you Bob from now on.

            Hello Bob, how’s your day?

        • @Default_Defect@midwest.social
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          The U.S. are far from the only people that colloquially call us “Americans.” This is a non issue.

          And if you really want to be pedantic, all South Americans are Americans too.

        • @CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world
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          011 months ago

          Canadians and Mexicans are “North Americans”. Brazilians are “South Americans”. People who live in the US call themselves Americans. That’s just how language works, buddy. If it irritates your pedantic bone so much, the only solution is to build a time machine to go back a few centuries and change it.

      • @Baku@aussie.zone
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        -611 months ago

        Nah man. Why give the whole continent a bad name just because the people in the middle of it are arseholes?

    • @bassomitron@lemmy.world
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      -911 months ago

      Political campaign funded bots/PR firms are the reason you see it saturate social media so badly. It’s not entirely because we’re obsessed with it, most people I know try to just live our lives and go vote when it’s actually election day and that’s about it.

      That is to say, it is very annoying to most of us, too, and I support the motion to ban political images/shitposts on the pics community.