Comment by fxomt@lemm.ee on LW is too big

Nah, we just need native lemmy filters, us non americans wouldn’t be missing out on much anyway. (better rules too, we need those)

Most news containing them is just clickbait and always shit like “trump says” “trump slams”

If you dont want to see those type of posts, then you can follow communities which dont include them. And block any instances/communities you dont like so they disappear from /all. You can also create your own community with your own rules, or your own instance. Neither of these things is difficult, they just need time and determination.

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Some people post US politics on general communities. I have like a 100 communities blocked and I still see them.

It sucks because those communities aren’t all politics so I’d have to block the good content too.

Christ. All the actual questions are downvoted and the US politics is high up 🙄

No grudge against americans, but this is why i prefer explicitly non-us communities.

These low quality, upvote-farm posts should just be banned in general (not US politics in general, but they should have specific communities). I don’t see why we don’t just deal with this spam.

!asklemmy@lemmy.world added a rule against US politics. I guess !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world mods either don’t care or prefer to keep maximum activity

First post i saw was “Is “Dark Gothic Maga” a conspiracy theory like Q anon?” lol, i checked its link and it’s about how billionaires are going to destroy america (as if that’s an america only problem?) but tbf it was majorly downvoted and the mods are probably busy right now.

Even when you put a “NO US POLITICS!” sign, some people literally can’t read it lmao.

Also the filters should include images of vote-slogans. Which could be tricky with OCR.

It can based on alt text

I like your ideas. Not gonna lie i kind of didn’t take this seriously but i mean, what’s stopping anyone? If i learn how tf lemmy internally works i could add a feature or two that helps us non USians 😎

I’m not sure a filter would actually work that well. For example, it might block out Trump and Musk, but then a new ~~keyboard~~ keyword appears, and having to manually re-adjust the filtering all the time quickly becomes tedious.

Instead, it should probably be based on instances (for example, block a whole instance), communities (whitelist/blocklist communities), or some kind of more complicated recommendation algorithm, but i don’t know how that would work, or how to make it “unbiased” and fair.

I’m not sure a filter would actually work that well. For example, it might block out Trump and Musk, but then a new keyboard appears

I’m assuming you mean keyword? If so, it shouldn’t be too bad. Just add on to it, and if you see more, add more. The real problem are image posts (ie normal title but image of trump or musk) you’d need to use an AI for that

Instead, it should probably be based on instances (for example, block a whole instance), communities (whitelist/blocklist communities)

Unfortunately some people post US politics on general communities, so even then you’re not safe. I wouldn’t block general comms just because some people ruin the fun for everyone else.

I guess making new instances gives us the chance to block certain topics from the start, setting in new moderators that can maybe be more stringent on keeping the community fun.

Starting a new instance is no easy task, let alone a community alone 😆

Though you’ll always get those “everything is political” mfs (see this post), who just insist on greying every single space with [US] politics. Usually they can be banned easily.

Though if that were to be made, i’d probably switch to it, lol.

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