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You're getting the response you expected, and that's just how it is, but I am here in solidarity with being so FUCKING BORED of having to hear about these motherfuckers all the time.

No, it's not, and it'd be an example of the decentralization working as intended.

The benefits of being able to have many communities for the same thing can really shine here. As an 'experiment', make a lemmy instance of your own, ban all discussion of these topics, and create communities for the things you like there while enforcing the new rules. If the benefits of not discussing those topics are worthwhile to people, they'll start interacting with your instance and you'll have made a nice thing for yourself. Otherwise I guess you can keep to yourself in the bubble that you were seeking to create.

You can ban them for yourself by monitoring your own internet use, deleting mobile apps (and/or disabling notifications) and reducing news consumption in general. All of which are pretty solid protocols for most people to follow 365 days / year, actually.

I'd check out Leechblock NG (for Firefox and Chrome) if you need a short vacation from Lemmy or any other websites.

I’ll decide what I see and don’t see, thank you very much.

What kind of chump would support a paternalistic idea like this?

Go back to being a Reddit admin and stay there if you want to force restrictions on other users for their own good.

Edit: Another idea is for you to start your own Lemmy instance. IMO, PaternalisticChumps.world has a great ring to it.

If you're pushing for restricting certain views for a few days, that's still censorship. You can argue whether it's justified or not, but it's still censorship.

Regarding whether it's possible or not; technically it is. There are certainly instances or groups of instances that have imposed strict federation requirements and closed themselves off in little bubbles, for better or worse. You'd probably not get the entire fediverse on board though, especially if it's "just an experiment".

Also, these people are political figureheads; blocking discussions about them won't actually solve anything. People will still talk about their policies and opinions. If you block that, people will argue about what should and shouldn't be blocked (hint: it isn't self-evident).

I think the system we have works fine. Explicit political things are usually behind comment warnings (on Masto). Many communities have "no politics" rules (although imo moderators should be better about that...).

Also, there is so much bad news on the fediverse that doesn't traditionally count as politics. Imo it's a bit naïve to assume that banning discussions about certain people will magically make people happier.

You want to make the world a better place :)

1. Find a community with content that you like aside from some annoying topics.

2. Create a new community with mod rules restricting some content (e.g. "news no politics"). /r/CasualUK did this, explicitly banned politics.

3. Attract new users who have the same preference.

Nope, people will not be going along with that. I guarantee it.

Blocking even a decent fraction of all the shrilly political ragebait here takes real work, it's no wonder it's going to hell.

As you mentioned yourself: Filter it out + block users and communities you don't like. It's usually the same users posting anyway.

People will still want to talk about stuff that you don't care to know or see, and as long as it's within the rules of the instance there's nothing really wrong with it IMO

Forcing all users to share your view of the fediverse for 168 hours would likely be a major cause of annoyance, and stretch our volunteer moderators out pretty thin...

No, it's impossible to do that on the feediverse, that's the whole idea of a decentralized network.

That being said I never read stuff about either of them, so the best idea for you might be, like we say in Brazil, stop getting scabies to scratch yourself.

Its unhealthy to ignore and hide away from problems of the world.

If you want to avoid that sort of content, either setup keyword / instance blocks to control what you see, or go offline entirely for some time.

To follow your suggestion though - theres no one person/team that controls the fediverse. To get, for example, all trump posts banned across all the fediverse you would need agreement from all instance admins to agree to it, and enforce it

Use Sync for Lemmy and the keyword filter is your friend.

If you want to live in a bubble, use filters, the rest of us can just continue to live outside.

We just really need a good customizable keyword filter. I tried the Lemmy Keyword Filter userscript, but it was unreliable for me. There are always a handful of topics that I just don't want to see. Either for a few days, a few weeks, or forever.

Why do you want to control what other people say so much?