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one_old_coder@piefed.social 2 days ago
There are tags on Piefed it seems. But it’s always been a mess, and ends up with people putting a lot of tags on their own posts to spam. Moderation is good enough on Lemmy. I don’t think you need to complicate things further.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How absurd is it that /c/unpopularopinion has “no politics” as its first community rule—as do most of the Lemmy communities with the widest reach? This achieves nothing but opening the floodgates to arbitrary censorship. And why was that? For the simple reason that people would rather be entertained…
one_old_coder@piefed.social 2 days ago
Some people don’t want to be bother by politics and/or US-centered stories. On every forum it was allowed, users were flooded with those topics. You can see !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world if you want that.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You can already hide such posts without any problem by excluding the relevant terms. As this post here suggests, it should also not be too difficult technically to let users decide which content they want to hide using tags.
However, hiding posts in the most popular communities for everyone by moderators is nothing less than plain censorship - and you even like that, because you can’t be bothered with reality…
one_old_coder@piefed.social 2 days ago
Terms like US, politics, Trump, Clinton, Army, Militia, Vance, Bondi, Kinder eggs, Oklahoma, etc. It seems painful. As I said, tags are a PITA and create spam.
Go back to reddit please.