Not really.
Sports is the thing that would be blocked the most, since it’s b&w - either you’re into it, or not at all, and there are great many deal of branches of it.
People would use "Hide all political posts and comments" more often than any other filter
Submitted 1 year ago by LambLeeg@lemm.ee to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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jesterraiin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
nocturne213@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yup sports for me is the #1 thing I hide.
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Would love to hide sports and Ami news/politics.
Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
RDJ_pointing_at_self: What counts as politics is a political question in itself, with a subjective answer melded by the hegemon. Absolutely everything can be connected to politics in some way.
poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Good point. Many of us didn’t get to choose whether we “are political”
aleph@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Hide all memes and shitposts would be way more useful for me, personally.
SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Have to agree the amount of shitposts and memes on here is staggering.
icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Aha, looking for a political fighting arent we?/s
Zippy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And cats. Don’t forget cats.
De_Narm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s impossible to filter out politics, because lots of people think everything they disagree with is political. It’s always the fault of the other side.
LinkOpensChest_wav@midwest.social 1 year ago
I’m gay, and people who so much as allude to the fact I exist get accused of “being political”
I always find it’s a certain type of person who complains about too much politics
WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’m just curious how you’d define politics.
Would this filter just remove news/memes about political candidates & elections?
Would this filter remove news/memes about all government officials?
Would this filter remove anything that could considered political, including news about things like climate change? news about worker strikes? news about product boycotts? news about drag show protests? news in general?
Would this filter remove anything that ‘becomes’ political, like Barbie/Oppenheimer, Disney, Rage Against the Machine, Dixie Chicks, Bud Light? Or would it go further and consider all media an expression of a political viewpoint and ban all discussion of entertainment media?
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I think filtering out everything that doesn’t make sense outside the USA would be sufficient for me.
JustZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And things that don’t make sense inside the USA, like F1 racing and soccer.
kakes@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
My ideal feature would scan American news for whatever ragebait they’re pushing for the week, and just block that.
WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This idea does seem more doable
Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I genuinely appreciate how you put scare quotes on “becomes” in “becomes political”, because it’s legitimately baffling how some people think that Rage Against the Machine “wasn’t political” before. Like, they literally donated their profits to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and interviewed Subcomandante Marcos for one of their video releases! You can hardly get more political!
Vcio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hide because i’m not really interested in US politics.
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I just want to stop hearing about US politics. You guys are so fucking obsessed it’s so annoying.
Oh there’s a post of a puppy falling on it’s back? WELL THAT’S JOE BIBENZ FAULT!!!1!!
Like Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
But did you know that Trump is bad?
Squander@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I dont mind reading or learning more about politics, but c/politics is just an leftist circle jerk echocamber. There have been a growing amount of users noticing this as well and eventually someone will make an unbaised community for US politics. C/politics is just a infestation of all the crazies that left r/politics.
explodicle@local106.com 1 year ago
I didn’t spend much time there but r/politics always seemed more centrist liberal than leftist to me.
eleanor@social.hamington.net 1 year ago
Reality has a well-known liberal bias
icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
“unbiased comunity for US politics”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You wish, they always get taken over by bipartsian shills. Wether they know it or not, be it themselves or the actuall political campaigners (undercover of course) be it demos or repubs, the only diference being the insane extremist shit they spew out, but the only common thing is “the other side is always wrong”.
Reborn2966@feddit.it 1 year ago
we should implement tags on lemmy, that filter by tags.
i don’t care about us politics, and sports. i could create a filter with sports and (us & politics).
Bongles@lemm.ee 1 year ago
We should still implement tags anyway but one of the issues is that people just won’t tag their stuff properly. Happens on imgur all the time. Maybe people are lazy about it or maybe they know less people will see their post but it’s frustrating.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Apps can fill that gap to some degree now, but we need widespread adoption of tagging before it’s very useful for this. I’m not sure lemmy itself will ever support that tbh. Reddit never had it, and there’s a laundry list of issues already on the official tracker.
Maybe everyone that moderates a community that sees this could strongly consider the important tags being implemented at that level, if the C/ contains things that are difficult to filter via blocking.
As an example, there’s no need for a C/ that’s dedicated to knitting to mandate a political of nsfanything tag when that’s not going to be part of the C/ to begin with. Not worth their time. Something a bit more generalized, like a meme C/ would be nice if they added politics tag for posts of that nature, maybe one for sexual (but not porn) subject matter, but wouldn’t need an nsfl because that’s not going to be allowed to begin with.
The app I use most, Connect, has filter function, but it’s only as good as other users make their titles.
There’s no such thing as a perfect filter though. Doesn’t matter how it’s implemented, there’s always gaps.
Skyline969@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is there an option to filter by keyword? Not on the app I use, but is that a Lemmy/kbin/etc feature that the app just doesn’t implement? I’d love to filter any mention of:
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Leftist/right-wing/alt-left/alt-right
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Nazis
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Capitalism
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Trump
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Trudeau
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Biden
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LGBT+ (let’s be honest, 99% of content mentioning it is ragebait/political/controversial in some way)
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Gun control
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Abortion
The list goes on. I’d probably end up with like two posts a day on my feed but damn would those posts be peaceful.
qwertzhz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sync for Lemmy has keyword filters, I think. Or at the very least it’s on the roadmap. I haven’t tried them myself yet, only back on Sync for Reddit.
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cedarmesa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can filter words on the connect for lemmy app
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Having some sort of hashtag system tied to “magazines” would allow for better filtering. The ability to filter out politics, or sports, or celebrities from your feed with one click.
PissinSelfNdriveway@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Hell I’ll even pay for that button
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
A-fucking-men
j_roby@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
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