Let’s say Sunday is NoPo day, for example. I think we’d all be in a better mood that day.
Edit. Yikes. Way too many people taking this too seriously and missing the point.
No, I’m not trying to suppress your free speech.
No, this post is not oppressive of your political views in anyway.
No, this doesn’t have any baring whatsoever on what country you’re from.
If your response to this shower thought is a four paragraph rage you are already lost. Why are you in showerthoughts?
No, this does not have anything to do with subscriptions or blocking communities.
If you’re incapable of light jokes then no, you should not comment.
And finally, no, this is not a serious request post. I can’t believe that needs to be explained for half the people here…
Maybe you should start a No Politics campaign. Have some debates over the issue. Raise it with your leaders. Find out the impacts of the new policy. Get all of Lemmy to have a vote on it.
Listen here you little shit!
Fair enough. While you’re at it, add a no anime day and a no Linux day as well. Or are we only removing things you don’t like?
Not op but I’d be down for all three of those actually!
And no memes
And a no snark day!
Wouldn’t you like that
I’d love to see more users / activity in the non-political niche and hobby communities. That’s my holiday wish.
The 3d printing community is awesome and very active. Thanks ro them I fix my shitty printer. They help me so much every time I do something dumb and fuck my printer up.
Yes, I have noticed a lot of activity in that community! I do some resin printing myself. Most folks in there appear to be using filament, but I’m grateful they are so active.
It’s not too surprising that some dedicated DIY 3d printing “maker” type people gravitate towards the fediverse.
I use both. Love the resin one, Hate the fdm with all my heart
Are we making wishes for Halloween now?
Holiday wish??? Dude. It’s October! This is spooky season, then it’s turkey season THEN holiday season!
My rule of thumb is that anyone who puts up christmas decorations before Black Friday is a massive asshole, who sucks dick…but not very well. They use a lot of teeth in their blowjobs, because they have no sense of how things are supposed to be. They do things nobody wants.
That’s why you gotta wait until black friday. For now, it’s all about black cats, and murder. Blood is a decoration! Also, pumpkin spice…for some reason…
LOOK! I DON’T MAKE THE RULES!
You should definitely tell Costco, who had Christmas decorations out in fucking JULY!
Ok…I know Everette True is just a comic, but I’m REALLY channeling his spirit hearing that…
Except they always become political as this is Lemmy
Feel free to have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world and its hobby threads
It’s hard not to find this kind of logic and desire to be naive and somewhat childish. I really do think it comes from a desire to go back to a time when you’re a child and you don’t have to worry about things.
“Missing the point”
From my POV, you’re the one who’s missing the point.
Thank you Anakin.
This is already possible, on any day of the week you desire, without affecting anybody else’s preferences. I assume you’ve subscribed to certain communities that you enjoy. If so, you simply switch your view to the Subscribed feeds. You can switch back anytime you want to All. As a bonus, you could even limit yourself to viewing only the communities on your instance by using Local.
I know that comes off a little snarky, but I don’t know what you do or don’t know, so I’m going with the assumption you don’t know. Otherwise, as others have suggested, you can block communities and instances, and also add keywords to filter out specific topics.
Edit: looks like it’s a feature request for the webui. I know Mlem has a keyword filter.
The issue is not politics posting. It’s politics posting in non-political subs. Like people posting about trump on this community and calling it a shower thought
I’d say the real issue then is that the mods should consider amending the rules to explicitly disallow political posts.
I concur
That’s what filters are for.
Where are the filters on the webUI?
Cuz I’ll fcking use them. Don’t think I won’t.Keyword filters, then you can keep the rest of the news.
First we will form a committee that monitors and tracks posts for subject matter that may be political. There will be extensive lists of what is acceptable and what isn’t, topics that will be debated at length every week.
Then, roughly two months into NoPo days, a tampon v pad debate between a childfree estate lawyer and a closeted scentsy sales rep with a breeder fetish will spill over into other instances, inflaming users to pick sides. Both women will become icons on their respective feminine hygiene products until they are both viciously doxed and swatted by opposing communities.
One week after, NoPo days will ban any words related to period protection and thus incite a backlash from lemmy feminists and allied persons.
The committee will be fediversally disbanded only ten weeks into NoPo days and it’s members will be forced to make alt accounts in dishonor.
See, you get it. Just a simple day like you described.
Edit. Yikes. Way too many people taking this too seriously
People should take it seriously when anyone suggests curtailing their political speech. In this case it’s to create a little feel-good bubble for yourself, which is hardly a worthy justification. So yeah.
when anyone suggests curtailing their political speech
“We should have a day where nobody talks about politics” is less a comment on censorship and more a comment on the speaker likely feeling enervated by the Say Everything Do Nothing cycles of political discourse.
It’s naive, self-serving, and myopic, to be sure. But it does illustrate an overall problem of these social forums. People rehashing the same arguments over and over again. People screaming at one another blindly, making all sorts of trollish comments and paranoid accusations, and generally harshing the vibe of the overall community, pleading and begging for annoymous randos to support this or that political candidate or policy… its not fun.
A day without political speech might be healthier for everyone’s mental state, broadly speaking. But only for the moment, in the same way a man yanking himself up to the surface of a pool and gasping for air feels relief, before sinking below the surface again.
it’s to create a little feel-good bubble for yourself, which is hardly a worthy justification
When you feel helpless and impotent, its all you know how to ask for. A very sad state of affairs overall. Every day going online, expressing anger, doing nothing about it, logging off, encountering horrors in real world, feeling anxiety, and going back online to vent again.
Touch grass
Unfollow all the political communities and your issue will be solved.
Wasn’t looking for a solution, kid.
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Yes! We should elect officials from each community. Then have them get votes from their community and then we can get all the community heads together and decide what day it is. As long as it’s not at the start or end of the week. I think people who want that have bad genes and should get deported back to Reddit, and make Reddit pay for it.
The problems is what constitutes as politics is very different to different people. Is a gay man posting about his relationship with his husband political?
Why would it be?
Well that’s the fucking question now ain’t it.
Nobody was asking that question prior
Just him mentioning his husband would be political to some people, which is the point.
Anybody who finds a man and a man in a relationship to be political needs to spend less time online
Yeah that’s nice, the rest of us have to deal with reality however. So while you’ve created a fantasy world in your head where things are just and perfect the rest of us don’t have that luxury. So let’s not pretend that things are all that simple eh?
And in the context of having a politics-free day on Lemmy, why do you care about what those people think?
Because the decision of which politics is disallowed is a political discussion, and those people will bring their politics of bigotry to the table and argue that “no politics day” means minorities should be silenced.
Uh oh, you got politics in your no politics.
You’re on Lemmy, where the vast majority of people are left-leaning. Anyone who says this is going to be downvoted to hell.
Based on OPs willingness to admit that other people fighting for their very basic human rights as annoying, I’ll answer for them and say yes.
This. So many people’s lives are inherently political and opting out is a privilege.
People who complain about “politics” on this platform really show their whole ass by revealing they’re actually just right-wing nutjobs or Russian trolls. So which are you?
Have you considered that some people actually get tired of the constant vitriol and negativity that accompany internet politics, even if you generally align with the prevailing opinions? Also god forbid you are actually centrist or conservative and want to be able to look at memes and tech news in peace without being reminded about The Illegitimate Colonizer State of Israel for the ten millionth time
Inconceivable
Good luck getting a tankie to shut the fuck up, sadly politics (or a tenuous grasp of) is all they know.
Poor little cretins.
“Tankie” ?? What’s that?
Count your lucky stars you’ve managed to stay ignorant to these folks.
You’ll know a tankie when one is with you.
That’s all I’m gonna say on it.
I like how everyone here is missing the point entirely. I don’t want yet another heated comments section. Why is it to complicated to not have everyone dying on some random hill.
You can have January 23rd. 2026. Unless that’s within 3 years of infrastructure week. We need to do branding on that then.
This is outrageous! I demand February 2nd.
Okay I talked it over with the lizard people council and they agreed to February 31st.
Damn you lizard people! Damn you to hell!
