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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…

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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.

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- 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…
  
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  - one_old_coder@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    by excluding the relevant terms
    
    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.
    
    you even like that, because you can’t be bothered with reality
    
    Go back to reddit please.
    
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    DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Go back to reddit please.
    
    I’ve been here for more than two and a half years, trying to contribute something because I thought it was important. I’m starting to think more and more that it was a wasted effort. Thank you for pointing that out so clearly once again.
    
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