Submitted 2 days ago by DandomRude@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Unfortunately for everyone who thinks like this, everything is political. Media, food, art and design, technology - it’s all done by people who are citizens (polites) of some state or another (polity) and everything they have access to is driven more by politics than nearly any other factor at this point. Even the desire to be free from politics is a political position.
Here’s an example: I posted on /c/unpopularopinion that it can’t be right that a well-known actor like James Van Der Beek is becoming impoverished because he can’t afford the cost of his cancer treatment. I posted there because I know from experience that this would not be allowed in other communities because it is supposedly a political post - even at unpopularopinion, the post was removed by the moderators.
Therefore, I believe that this arbitrary rule is completely absurd.
Fascism and capitalism are eating the globe. It will leak everywhere as it should. No one should be quiet.
I agree. Nevertheless, people here prefer arbitrary decisions based on rules that are so broad that they only encourage arbitrary decisions by the moderators. From this, I can only conclude that even the people here would rather be entertained than face the adversities of reality.
For me, that is unacceptable - so I’m moving on.
Its the spaces you’re in. Everyone knows Cowbee will talk to you about theory all day and night. Good luck in your next life.
If people would use (and admins allow, and devs implement on mobile clients) the language tags we already have I would be happy already.
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.
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…
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.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well. I joined shower thoughts to read some funny short random thoughts. Not absolute garbage takes 50 posts a day.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So get a decent block list…
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Idk, I think you might just be posting in the wrong community. Have you tried !badposting@hexbear.net ?