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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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