This community is for photography and interesting images. This isn’t the place for shitposts about trump overshadowing quality posts. There’s already 10 other communities people can go to for that.
And more. Can we ban these low effort political posts and go back to having a decent community? Thanks.
Now that I am back available, all the duplicates have been removed, the first posting of the photo is locked. I will see if I can make a poll when I am off mobile to get a community consensus on if we want to ban all political pictures. I don’t have a preference one way or the other, but this is about what the community wants to do. We don’t generally get a lot of political posts anyways outside of this special event.
If you are curious as to what gets done behind the scenes, go to the sidebar, scroll to the bottom near the mod list and select “mod log”. This shows every action a mod as taken,
who has taken it(mods can only see which mod did which action it seems), and who or what it was against.Thanks!
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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!
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.
You know what I do when social media gets repetitive? I get off social media and do something else.
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.
I think you’ll probably have to start blocking users. Not ideal, though.
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.
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.
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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 🤷
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.
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.
It comes across more as a resident of a USO show to me.
yes, of course they are
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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?
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i say abracadabra!
now you’re just bob
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USA guy here. I don’t give two fucks about politics at all. I block everyone that posts about it.
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
Yes please. It’s even more annoying on fediverse social networks because for some reason people can’t use proper tags and instead use allegories or inside jokes to refer to trump or musk so I can’t even filter it out properly.
Surprised they’re not banned already. I would have no problem with this type of content being banned. Political content belongs on political subs.
Any Lemmy app where I can filter out content on keywords like Trump and Musk will be my new daily.
If you are on ios, Memmy can.
I totally support this. Political images or images with a political message should have their own forum.
There is already a rule for this:
3… No spam posting/trolling.
I don’t object to it being shown once, but the repetition should not be allowed. As someone has already said Politics pervades everything, it would be a difficult one to enforce. So instead of trying to reinvent the wheel just stop the trolling.
Everything is political
I’d also like to ban Woke photos!
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What’s a woke photo? I don’t even know what woke means but I hear it all the time. Is it interchangeable with tolerant? Seems to be my understanding, just another word for tolerance, what does that even look like in photo form?
I don’t even mind the one post. But why is the same picture up several times? And the South Park meme isn’t even a photo, it’s a screenshot. The Zoolander one is a photo and a screenshot spliced together.
I agree with OP. There are better places to post those. And the duplicate posts should have been removed immediately.
They have been removed, the first posted is locked. I was unavailable to check in on c/pics due to family reasons the last 14 hours.
Thanks for all your hard work. You’re amazing.
Thank you :)
Yeah I can live with one post, but it’s all reposts and memes
Aye!
Instead of forcing a fediverse to ban certain posts, why don’t you just block them from your side? Just blacklist certain words.
Unlike previous social media sites that drive on engagement, here we have that option.
If you don’t enforce rules on what content is allowed in a community, they all start blending together. That’s one part of why the big Reddit subs are shit.
Another way to look at this: I’d rather allow some junk posts than be strict and without much content. Let Lemmy grow before the communities become very specific and strict.
