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…
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.
I just block the communities and users. Can’t rawdog lemmy.
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?
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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
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…
Spooky holiday is still a holiday
Feel free to have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world and its hobby threads
Except they always become political as this is Lemmy
“Missing the point”
From my POV, you’re the one who’s missing the point.
Thank you Anakin.
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.
You were literally suggesting that the entire population of Lemmy change because you don’t want to read politics.
Yes, let’s take a shower thoughts post very serious. Smart choice.
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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.
It’s privilege.
When people don’t want to talk politics it’s because they have the luxury of not being affected every moment of their lives about said politics.
I.e. easy to switch off the ‘trans people should die’ rhetoric when you’re a cis gendered middle aged white man in a western country.
Love the idea, but good luck. Federation has some downsides, one of them being it will be literally impossible to get consensus on this from all servers.
Turns out there are numerous communities with no political content. One could choose to only read those, on any given day.
Do you have some suggestions?
I went thru my subscriptions, and perhaps these would be useful:
paramoror@lemm.world energy@slrpnk.net ancientinternet@lemmy.world sciencememes@mander.xyz technology@lemmy.ml hardware@lemmy.ml fediverse@lemmy.world auscovid19@a.gup.pe longcovid@a.gup.pe covid@hexbear.net stick@sh.itjust.workds archaeology@mander.xyz health@lemmy.world potatoism@lemmu.world funny@lemmy.ml humor@behaw.ort inhabitedbeauty@lemmy.world the_pack@lemmy.world permaculture@lemmy.world tea@lemmy.zip tea@a.gup.pe nature@rss.ponder.cat food@slrpunk.net gardening@lemmy.world pocketknife@lemmy.world humanitities@beehaw.org surrealmemes@sh.itjust.works
If you have any to add, lmk! Thanks!
Thanks!
You betcha! I didn’t realize how many I had, till you asked.
Also obviousplant@lemmy.world https://fedia.io/m/obviousplant@lemmy.world/t/1070480/I-can-t-tonight-I-am
I feel like the entire comment section just proves the op’s point ¯_(ツ)_/¯
On an individual community this could work, sure, but on the whole website you would effectively be closing certain communities entirely.
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?
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.
Drag doesn’t think opting out is a privilege. Drag thinks being apolitical is a marginalised identity. Aroace people don’t participate in the political systems of romance and sex. ASPD people don’t respect political laws or norms. Drag thinks being political is the normal thing to do, and society punishes those who are less enmeshed in the dominant politics.
Drag gets blocked by a lot of people every time Drag comments like Drag is nine years old.
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?
Drag thinks gay people are political. Politics is when a group of people use a process for decision making. A gay couple is a group of people who have decided to date each other. That’s politics. Straight people are also political. Everything is political.
Aroace people are slightly less political than straight, gay, and bi people, but not by much, because they still have jobs and friendships and relatives.
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.
I use filters on voyager to block whatever annoys me.
Voyager won’t let me add a filter, only remove them.
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I love the idea
