Working on my politics-free lemmy experience, what words should I add next?
Edit: some of you need to step outside and smell some fresh air, I promise it wont bite
Edit to the edit: this goes doubly for the people private messaging me their manifesto
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I'm surprised there are any posts left with those filters.
There's actually a good bunch of people posting wholesome entertaining posts if you filter out the noise
Also a lot of porn which ranges from legit ametuer to professional and possibly illegal. Like half of all posts when you sort by new is porn.
.........there's only one porn I can think of which would be illegal, and if thats what you're seeing, report EVERY SINGLE BIT OF IT!!!
Spam the report button.
I've seen a couple of sketchy tinytitties posts that I made an anonymous tip for authorities to look into. I downvote them all but I don't report them because I'm 100% certain the mods would be aware if there is any illegal materials in the mix.
If it looks remotely like CSAM, report it. Mods don't always know whats posted, unless we get a report. I don't mod any porn communities, but I'm sure there's bickering in the communities I do mod that I never see.
Can confirm, there's plenty
You misspelled "Israel", fyi
Isfake
Worth it to add both spellings IMO
Ooh you right
Isn'treal
OP made a post trying to figure out how to make his town less lame but also wants to avoid all "politics"... 😮💨
What if I told you that everything is "politics", be it buying groceries, entertainment, wearing clothes, healthcare, getting around town, having sex, owning a home or getting paid?
I sympathize with OP tbh. While babies being murdered is bad, I want SOME TIME in my life where I don't have to think about that for the sake of my own survival.
Politics affects more or less everything, but that doesn't mean it is those things. If you're not able to examine the list OP posted and see what proper subset of "everything" they're trying to filter out, you need to think harder.
I can get behind virtually everything in that list, but pls explain the political influence in having sex
promoting either CIS or non-CIS agenda.
Oh no,caught red handed!!
You're trying to avoid politics by filtering keywords, yet your own thread title contains the word "politics". Curious.
That just means they won't be able to view their own post. Maybe it's not a bad idea.
Oh no I've created a paradox
"slams" "melts down"
I don't condone it but I might as well help as a mental exercise.
maga
elon
bibi
ccp
libertarian
marines
soldier
war
tax
congress
legislate
legislation
vote
genocide
rights
wage
protest
riot
IRGC
IDF
theocracy
kleptocracy
oligarchy
monarchy
indoctrination
democracy
freedom
anarchy
communism
socialism
dictatorship
parliament
SCOTUS
senate
I wonder if @[email protected] knows any I might have missed?
Why don't you condone it? And good list thank you
Ignorance causes many of the problems on this list in the first place, imo.
Fair. I get my news from different sources though, that's just not what I signed up to lemmy for
Curating one's feeds does not inherently lead to ignorance.
I've been aggressively filtering my newsfeed for years now and I didn't suddenly forget about all the corruption and injustice. I just have no need for those headlines to overwhelmingly dominate my day-to-day ingestion of news. "Corrupt Oligarch Continues Campaign Against Human Rights" isn't news to me; it's the status quo. I don't need a dozen headlines to remind me the sky is blue every day.
Well said.
Everything is political. What you don't want to see is either controversy, or bad news. A lot of people call controversy and bad news political, and they're wrong. We all experience politics all the time, and it's quite tolerable, even fun, when the controversy and bad news is taken out.
I gave some suggestions on the top-level for political things you can remove that aren't controversial or bad news; Linux and Star Trek. If you don't want to remove those, then you should consider being more specific about what you don't like.
food
healthcare
city
planning
transport
people
personal
company
price
AI
race
rich
judge
police
news
economy
GDP
stock
border
freedom
nation
american
slave
king
gold
'tater
corruption
air
water
species
extinction
oil
electricity
Sun
Moon
poor
street
money
have
. . .
Add "linux" and enjoy the empty feed
You forgot Star Trek
I can use regexes, so it makes it a bit shorter list:
Ooh is that an app or desktop?
Webapp. It's the development branch of Tesseract.
Economics
Law
Protest
Rights
Freedom
Shift
Terror
Slam
Slap
Athlete
Competition
Criminal
Minority
Equality
Civil
Activist
Sports
Global
Country
Government
War
Russia
Prime
Minister
Scandal
Epstein
Files
Pedophile
Rapist
Rape
Child
Climate
Scientist
Study
New
Citizen
Despite
Claim
Attention
Draw
Conclusion
Steal
Truth
Behind
Fight
Post
Social
Community
Political
Politics
Group
Edit: Fuck, you got me I didn't notice where we are so I shitposted right back
Tbh it can be a shitpost but I'm actually making the blocklist, good additions!
D:
ukraine iran court oil
Good list, and I think I can just replace iranian with iran since the way boost works that counts for both
Add "Trek", Star Trek is very political.
And "Linux" and "Open Source", free software is communist.
Germans, beekeepers and people observing reality in shambles
I can probably think of more later..
If you need time away from these topics for mental health, then this is can be a good idea. I wish you all the best.
If you have other, quality news sources that's fine too.
If it's just because it's "annoying" and you do not want to engage, then bear in mind that you are simply burying your head in the sand. Politics are not simply words, and will affect you and your loved one's lives and rights.
The leopards come for everyone's faces eventually.
Meh, you're overthinking it
No, they are not. You are underthinking it, and if your replies here are any indication, you enjoy underthinking.
Oh no, trickdacy's mad I don't want politics on lemmy specifically, I better take a long, hard look at my life and think about what I've done 🥺
We both know you won't start doing that
Take a chill pill, yeesh
Sorry to disturb you with the idea of "politics" not being something one should hide from. It must mean something is wrong with me that I think that.
Yeah I actually would argue it does OP had said they get their politics elsewhere, not on lemmy, and here you are doubling down that they're blocking out all politics in their life.
And even if that weren't the case, who cares? Mind your own business and let them do what they want, it's really not that hard
😉
Do you browse All frequently? When I browse my subscribed comms I don't see that much politics stuff. (I have a separate account for that, when I'm feeling more resilient than usual.)
Communities likes memes and lemmyshitpost have become thinly veiled American politics channels disguised as memes. It’s not just All.
Democratic
GOP
Congress
Vance
Senate
EU
European
ICE
Gaza
Strike
Israel
Palestine
Zelensky
Ukraine
MAGA
U.S.
United states American AI
President
Combine that with blocking communities and you're set
This is a good idea, y'all acting like OP literally doesn't listen to news, they said they just don't want to get their news on lemmy.
And I agree, you guys are being dramatic AF
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If you don't want politics involved, just add the name of every country.
Also "migrant," (gets rid of immigrant too) "refuge," (gets rid of refugee) "asylum," "vaccine," "climate change," and "global warming."
Also with "Israel" and "Zionism" in your list, add "bomb," "missile," "dea" (for dead and death).
Good additions
Palestine, ukraine, oil…. Idk. I think like the other person suggested, a different space. Politics…..is everywhere.
Netanyahu
War
Iran
Elon Musk
MAGA
must be nice being able to afford to not care about these things
It's so nice
"the"
You don't want to read about genocide? You must love genocide then!?
Dem's fightin' words
GOP
Don’t forget a lot of media is “political”.
Mute “Star Wars”, “X-Men”, “Mark Ruffalo”, “Miles Morales”, Wolfenstein, Star Trek, Warhammer, Helldivers…
No wildcards I'm pretty sure
"Tankie"
Delivery driver
Dvda
Gape
Fist
Why is this search not working?
You can add plenty more, if you want no politics you need to evenly cover both political aisles because stuff will creep in that you didn't want anyway.
Democrats Dems GOP DNC Newsom AOC Iran Russia Trump Ivanka Melania FBI Kash Patel Don Donald Donnie Mar-a-lago DOJ Supreme Court Election Congress Senate Vote DoD Hegseth ICE immigrant Musk Elon Republican Epstein China Israel Gaza Palestine Palestinian Refugee BiBi Jew Aipac anti-Semitic Protest
No matter how much you add, some things will still slip through because people give their posts stupid titles
Definitely, I just give those ones a quick user block
Here's something I do. I block specific communities, and some people for the extreme amount of rage baiting political bullshit.
My list was getting pretty long tell I started doing that.
Also I block specific websites so they don't show up like CNN. Keywords are a good start but on Voyager I have actively just blocked (or is it muted?) people/instances/communities that are rage baiting political shit.
Always remember though, it's a privilege to not be able to interact with politics. I do on my own terms for my own mental health. But avoiding it not good as politics is literally anything that humans do. I just refuse to let the toxic 24/7 news bullshit get to me. As I'm one of people they actively target for "existing".
Also I blocked YouTube website because its constantly just people uploading there videos to get more views.
Beans
kumquat
Why drone?
Oh.. oh right of course...
Ignore the words. Use your time to go outside and grab a bunch of strangers to play softball or frisbee or something. That is the biggest thing that'll fuck up all the young fascist "tech bros".
I got a basketball game with my buds later!
how'd it go?
Dunno, still at work
how'd it go?
I also have elon, musk and ICE.
Why would you filter out the ICE? They are amazing german trains, super fast and reliable. No Person has ever complained about them because they are amazing. Did i already mention how reliable and amazing they are?
And there is never a discussion about if they need more or less funding. So it's a completly unpolitical topic, because they are not only reliable but also amazing
sad Siberian Musk Deer noises
Won't be able to see posts aboot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopalpa_donaldtrumpi either 😔
That explains a lot.
This is gold.
Lmao, what did you expect would happen? Obvious troll is obvious.
But look how sick my front page is
42 USA citizens down voted you.
I'm having sooo little political content without any setup on my end, probably thanks to how my instance is configured
But now you'll miss all the news about Feline Panleukopenia Virus! What if it's cured?
No such thing as anything "politics free". Also trying to make any consumption "politics free" is damming to what kind of person you are and not in a good way.
This is objectively correct. We are social mammals and everything we do is steeped in politics. We live in a social world and we navigate power, privilege, wealth and ideologies in everything we do - politics.
Believing you can go politics free just marks you as either naive or callous.
At least this is in a shitposting forum, the correct venue for such an idea.
Kay
bipartisan
Try liberal
Netanyahu Iran Russia Putin SCOTUS USA United States
Probably a lot, a lot more
European Union, Deliveries, Economy, Earth, Human, *
pcm
Making the assumption that you are getting your news somewhere else, not just burying your head in the sand, what are some sources that you, or anyone else who takes this approach, using to stay informed?
Places 😉
Doesn't help. You'd need forced tagging on creation to have something reliable.
This should be the default filter list on every app
*realizes what sub hes in...
i'll change my angry downvote to a disgruntled upvote
dei
Tankie
I mean yes but there's not a lot of actual post titles with that I don't think it would do much
Fair
I honestly thing you should just use a different network.
Cozy.talk looks pretty adorable.
Turbo loser behavior 😆😆😆
So this isn't a shitpost? Mods should delete this then.
Delete me plz I been bad
I’d delete you. Hard.
That sounds like a political opinion. OH NO!
For your filter to work, you’d have to add many other words. Politics is the distribution of political goods, including attention and significance. If you pay attention to something or think something is significant, that is politics. So for your filter to work, you’d have to filter out anything and everything that you pay attention to and think is significant.
So lasagna bolognese is politics?
I know it sounds absurd. You’re thinking I’m insane. You’re thinking there’s no way a sane human being believes lasagne bolognese is politics. You’re thinking my definition of politics is useless or absurd.
But let’s look at this closely. Again, politics is the distribution of political goods and our assessments of those distributions.
Being aware that politics is everywhere means we can choose what to pay attention to and what to do. It’s fine to choose lasagna bolognese. It’s fine to choose what kind of life you want. We’re involved in politics even if we don’t know it. We’re already somewhat skilled at it.
I think you're just arguing semantics now, I'm here to see memes, not conflict. You're digging too deep into it for the sake of philosophy. While I can appreciate the angle I think I'm just going to continue receiving the memes, thanks
Conflict and philosophy are two you should probably add to your list.
You seem to really value fun, and that is genuinely okay.
It probably seems as if I'm splitting hairs. It might also seems as if I'm interested in conflict (in the memes-conflict dicotomy you mentioned). Overall, it might seem as if I'm an armchair philosopher yelling at the clouds from my ivory tower.
The way I see it, I'm not making a point in that ivory tower. I'm not in the vacuum of philosophy for philosophy's sake. I actually think I'm doing the total opposite: what happens when we notice what we pay attention to, how the world affects us, and how we affect the world? In other words, what happens when we open our arms to the world instead of closing our eyes to it?
This is incredibly practical.
Every single choice that we make has consequences. It affects people nearby and around the world.
I'm not arguing for us to pretend to be perfect people, whatever that means. I'm arguing for noticing our place in this world and how we are connected to others. I'm arguing for expanding our perspective instead of narrowing it.
Even when we expand our perspective we can still choose memes and fun.
I do it. I'm like you in that sense.
The very small change is noticing that we are making choices and that choices are consequential.
I wonder if memes are collections of signs with meanings in relation to each other and their users. I'm sure that's NOT the case tho.
It is for someone. For example, someone who dislikes the Americanization of Italian cuisine, or dislikes the spread of Italian-American/western culture in their country. Maybe someone from Sicily who feels like Sicilian culture is underrepresented when talking about Italian culture.
But yeah, my point is that just because it's not political for you doesn't mean it's never political. But if you want an online space where you only see ideas and culture you agree with, then you can absolutely do that.
You mean the meat-based dish? A product of an industry that relies on subjecting animals to cruel conditions while also frequently exploiting the labor of poor immigrants (including undocumented ones), while the bosses receive tax subsidies from the government?
But suppose I don't bring any of that up. Suppose you have a community that's just for recipies, and I post a comment under each recipie providing vegan substitutes. Suppose someone else starts replying to my comments suggesting ways to include more meat in recipies and starts cracking jokes about it. Is that political?
Stop you're making my mouth water
Very political thing you just said, isn't it?
Sorry I didn't get past "meat based dish"
Why not?
Mmmmmmm