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most communities should implement an explicit "no US politics" rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 10 months ago by ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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  1. US people have the unique trait of not shutting the fuck up about their politics online
  2. getting rid of US politics will also get rid of most non-US politics due to all political conversation eventually ending up US politics conversations due to the above point
    • it would also be a nice indicator to those who are willing to read the room
  3. singling out US politics instead of a blanket "no politics" rule cleverly avoids the problem of "but what is/everything is political" debates that are just waiting to take over from the politics debates themselves
  4. election year or something idk I'm not from there

obviously this does not apply to communities whose explicit purpose is to talk politics

the internet is losing places for creatures to be silly little meow meows :3 in peace, and we need to do something, literally anything, about it

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[–] amio@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Amen to that. It takes quite a bit of work to try to curate away all the communities that are explicitly political, and then you need to deal with thinly veiled political soapboxing in AskWhatever, NoStupidQuestions, meme communities, etc too - despite there being communities specifically for political content.

Some of us just want to have a silly laugh without being confronted with the lightspeed decline of humanity every five minutes. Fuck us, right?