You can have January 23rd. 2026. Unless that's within 3 years of infrastructure week. We need to do branding on that then.
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2024
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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?
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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.
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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?
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.
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If there is a community that has a mix of content you like, and content you don't like, you can make a post / reach out to the mods to set up something like that.
It would be harder to do on the instance level, and impossible across instances.
For your request specifically: It's very hard to define "politics" and so I would be against such a community rule. It would make a lot of unnecessary work for the mods and be annoying for users trying to post in a community they aren't familiar with.
Personally, if I was still seeing the content I don't like 85% of the time, I wouldn't be that much happier. I'd rather just block it and be done with it.
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Might as well shut down the whole damn site
On sunday, rfkill/airplane mode, and your internet will be politics free.
Just wait a month, you'll be good.
I’m assuming you mean the US elections on November 5th. If you are, it’s not over just because the election is over. Mark my words, no matter who wins, it’ll be a category 5 shitstorm of more political posts that will ensue.
Or you can just block/ignore the stuff you don't like. No need to force your preferences on everyone else.
Except that people find a way to insert politics into almost every thread. You'd have to block three quarters of the site and about half the users lol
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Not forcing your beliefs on everyone else? Well that's certainly unAmerican of you! I'm not voting for the person YOU clearly support!
Exactly. That's the whole point of link sharing sites, you can curate it to just show the things you're interested in. Simply blocking like 5 politics-related communities will almost entirely wipe political content from your view.
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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.
I'd love to see more users / activity in the non-political niche and hobby communities. That's my holiday wish.
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!
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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
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That's what filters are for.
Keyword filters, then you can keep the rest of the news.
Where are the filters on the webUI?
Cuz I'll fcking use them. Don't think I won't.
not great, but you can use ublock origin
eg lemm.ee##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/keyword/i"))
You block the communities you don't want to see.
But then there wouldn’t be much left, unfortunately.
So you read the posts that you don't want to see?
You're completely missing the point