I would love to sometimes filter out any and all political posts, I think having this enabled as default on some instances would also be preferred by some users.
I’m a software dev, if it doesn’t require a lot of work I’m happy to make a Pull Request for this feature, but do people want this? Is there anyone I should maybe talk to before starting, or anything I should know?
Edit: I realise it won’t filter out ALL political posts, but even if it only catches half of the stuff, it could make the difference between being flooded with Trump/Musk news and not.
Some new users might turn away before knowing the can set filters etc. (which also aren’t perfect)
I’m going to pile on too.
No. Bad idea.
Crying ‘pOLiTics’ is the weak persons way of trying to steer the conversation away from topics they don’t want to talk about.
In the fediverse, if you don’t like a topic, one already has the feature they need. That is the ability to keep scrolling to find a topic one is seeking.
Quit whining about politics and avoid those groups at the party. Or do the personal work and figure out how to be a useful part of the conversation.
Don’t build your big tech bullshit into our fediverse. Curate your own communities and user blocklists.
What an odd take. We can filter out NSFW work so why shouldn’t we be able to filter other things we are not interested in or are contributing to our poor mental health.
I for one have filtered out Elon Musk and Trump because it is nauseating. If I’m in a headspace where I want to see them then I can remove the filters but generally I want to stop doom scrolling.
Then stop doomscrolling! The software is already baked into your noodle. Play with your cat instead or whatever.
I am sorry if you cannot process the current reality unfiltered but you have already identified the mechanisms to use to protect yourself.
The reason it is a dumb and abusable feature is that the word ‘politics’ is MEANINGLESS in this context.
Don’t like gay people? POLITICS! Do you like gay people? POLITICS!
A ‘politics’ tag is a tool for automating bulk censorship that YOU can and should be doing for yourself, manually. The entire point of the fediverse is that it bypasses that centralized mindset.
You decide what sort of politics give you heartburn and adjust your consumption accordingly. Outsourcing that decision making to others is morally lazy.
Said to someone with ADHD isn’t really something I was able to do without putting things in place to aid me to do that. The same way I couldn’t stop using Reddit all day until I got an app that locked me out of things after a certain duration.
You may do well to try and understand that not all peoples brains work the same and some people need more assistance than others to do things that seem easy.
saying it bluntly is helping… doomscrolling is the problem, and it might not be easy to fix but it is the actual fix
You would do well to stop blaming ADHD and assuming you are the only one who leans that way. It is an excuse for nothing, nothing at all.
Stop doomscrolling!
If you need training wheels, then get a set. You are basically advocating that all bicycles include them by default. That’s not a mindset that I can be quiet about.
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I have that turned on, and I heavily lean on blocking communities and users, and I still get NSFW shit fairly regularly.
I’ve been on Lemmy for years and have yet to see a single nsfw post.
I didn’t realize they even existed.
Maybe it’s not a Lemmy thing and it’s an app thing, but Voyager has a setting to hide NSFW content.