Same. Though can we also add a button to hide all content pertaining to US state politics? “The governor of Arkansas-” I live in The Netherlands, that shit has no bearing on me
Same ! I live in india , but seems like i am wayyy to updated with us political news !ugh
To be fair, I am Lithuanian and a lot of stuff online goes like અને પછી તેઓ કેટલીક અસ્પષ્ટ ભાષા બોલવાનું શરૂ કરે છે
Well, since we’re here, what are the big news where you live these days?
I got used to it, you just need to look at the US as a union of states like Europe, in which case Arkansas is about equivalent to Lithuania in population (although if you correct for the more states and less pop of the US you get Bulgaria or Finland if you use a ranked method) . The same could be done for China, India and Brazil.
Sir, how dare you insult Lithuania like that.
Alright, polandball time: I’ll ask around the EU++ who wants to play Arkansas in the school play…if nobody takes it, I’m giving it to Hungary :D because they’re being a dick lately. So, which state do you want? I hear Idaho’s nice :) Germany already took California, France took New York, Italy took Texas, Spain took Florida, the Netherlands took Pennsylvania, Poland took Illinois, Romania got Georgia, Sweden asked for Michigan and Austria asked for Massachusets, Finland got offered Indiana, but picked Arizona, lol etc etc…do you want Wisconsin? Also: UK guest starring as Canada lol
Idaho, the mountainous parts, are nice. Some of the people are nice. But in general, Idaho has some of the most batshit insane stuff happening in it in regards to cults and crazy people. It’s been getting crazier in recent years. They were an absolute mess during the pandemic and needed tons of help from other states who then couldn’t look after locals in need.
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As an american, yes please lol
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I kinda like it as a soap opera. I hate actual soaps, but this is a better version to watch.
I can go through so much popcorn.
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It will when we stop being the Republic and get this Empire phase rolling.
A huge part of that is american-centric attitudes though. There is the politics sub on Lemmy.world and it’s only for US politics. But it’s not called “usonlypolitics” it’s called “politics”. Somehow they don’t see the problem with that.
Also the mods are been absolutely bellends about it and are refusing to even acknowledge that that is a problem.
But why would the world champions of egg handball see a problem with this?
Give us an option to block memes as well then, my biggest issue with Lemmy is the tsunami of terrible and practically unavoidable memes. I don’t ever see sports content, rarely see NSFW content, there is a fair amount of Elon spam, but really the worst are the memes. Even doing my best to hide the meme communities they are unavoidable.
If you’re not here for memes or porn then why?!
/s
The main problem being that people have dug up the last 10 years of reddit memes to repost then on Lemmy.
If we hid meme communities, I’m not sure there would be any posts left.
I don’t mind memes but holy shit most of them are so bad and the volume is just too much.
The only two communities I blocked were just a barrage of memes straight to the frontpage.
or us politics
Which instances local have less content on politics or us politics? Beside lemmynsfw of course
There is surprisingly less of this on the Fediverse. On Reddit I had a massive blocklist with words like Biden, Trump, DeSantos, AOC, Democrats, Republicans etc. and I still wasn’t saved from all of the bullshit over in the land of the free.
I rarely see all of that crap here and it’s honestly very refreshing.
When i browse all every other post i get is politics or musk
With Sync you can just pre-emptively filter based on keywords.
Nah, give me all them SuperbOwls.
Hentai is my favourite sport
I love Sync!
You little
Thanks, I never knew this is a thing.
I love not having to see any posts about Elon or Shitter. Sync is great.
Please tell me those are your whitelist keywords
Yeah everyone should enjoy the same things!
No. This is a perfect start of a blacklist.
Horrible. Next thing you know he is gonna block furry porn and wincest
“Hide all American news” would basically fix 50% of the issues.
It would be nice if every community had to pick a tag associated with it so that you can automatically filter out communities you have no interest in. E.g. Politics, news, memes, sports, tech, celebrities, TV/Movies, etc…
That’s a great idea. I’d prefer this instead of instances that are mainly focused on specific topics
I’d filter out Mr [Trump] and similar ilk immediately.
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I’d love a fediverse-wide tagging system for various kinds of NSFW (porn, gore, death…), Sports (ideally also by discipline), Anime, Music (again, with genres), Gaming etc. to hand-pick what I absolutely don’t want to see.
On some Mastodon clients you can block hashtags, and on Lemmy you can block communities, so we’re already pretty close. To do more would require a lot of self-tagging of posts and not everyone will do that. Or it would require analytics and automatic tagging that may not be accurate and would theoretically be a privacy nightmare.
I can never rely on people to self-tag posts. But tagging communities would be much more manageable and helpful.
And with apps we can filter text.
Do it like AO3 and enforce only about a dozen mandatory tags, and allow ‘choose not to tag’ tag if you don’t want to tag, and you can choose to filter out the choose not to tag content…
Maybe communities should come with default tags. That would make it a lot easier.
I really wish there could be tags and sub-tags.
Tag examples:
- Politics
- Sport
- Anime
- News
- AI
Sub-tag examples:
- US
- Europe
- Africa
- Basketball
- Volleyball
- F1
Some sort of curated list by Lemmy developers that might change over time depending on user demand.
Then client apps can fetch such list from any server and allow you to apply such filter.
Imagine being able to block whole category of sports? Anime? News? Whatever people want/don’t want.
I would like the platform itself to support this, as I often use the website.
That’s why he said Lemmy developers, not instance developers.
Yup, developers.
Instance admins adding such tags would make it inconsistent and basically impossible to use. It should be unified = implemented by Lemmy developers.
P.S. Developers who develop Lemmy software. Admins who own and manage instance (website/server).
I think this is the only good thing Tildes has with tags, tags can work as sub-comunities inside a sublemmy.
I don’t think I’ve seen a single post about sports in Lemmy. Ever. Same with mastodon.
I don’t think the group of people interested in sports and the group of tech savvy that use the fediverse overlap that much!
So why the shower though(t)? 😕
Well I’d still like to be clean.
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This is actually my biggest complaint about fedi services. I really love the baseball communities on Reddit (not on Twitter, though, that shit is toxic and often very homophobic), and there’s just not a substitute elsewhere. I would love for baseball Lemmy to take off.
Just a general reminder for folks to generate content. Don’t worry if it doesn’t get a lot of attention yet, the fact that it’s there will bring people in.
Here I am trying to find sports content.
I have yet to see active sports talk or news. But I’m also still figuring out this whole place.
Not going to happen anytime soon. Lemmy seems to have mostly drawn in early tech adopters, communists, Europeans who hate cars, and not-quite-pedophiles-but-close-enough-that-it-makes-me-concerned types.
I have yet to find any decent sports discussion here or anywhere in the fediverse.
Is Lemmy just not showing me sports content? I don’t like sports at all and this would bother me if it was constant, but I only see the occasional sports post.
It was pretty bad for me until I got most of them filtered. There’s a com for every single team, every single league, and more.
Not quite as prolific as, say, Linux or porn. But there’s a lot of them.
Weird. I totally am not seeing them.
I’m not seeing them either and I love sports
Same. If there is a com for every team, why can’t I find the ones for my teams? I get that that my teams probably have few subscribers so they’re not ever likely to show up on ALL. But even when I actively look for em, I can’t find em. I’m still new to this platform so I have much to learn.
Which sports in particular are you looking for? Most of the popular sports and teams have fledgling communities
Yeah. I think some get ahead of themselves, lemmy isn’t big enough enough to support the splintering.
Same — I don’t recall a single sports-related post — not even a meme. Maybe my instance already defederated from all the home servers of these communities (I think that’s how it works?).
Where is the “hide all americans” button?
Especially US politics. I couldn’t care less.
Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
It’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.
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Because language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
This is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
The target understands it, therefore it is correct language
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the argument is about america??
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Yeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
For any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
The purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
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Since you’ve apparently seen so many, I would love for you to link me to a sports community that is actually active. Everything out there is completely dead, usually with one person reposting content from reddit or Twitter.
Haha that is true… I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sports community while browsing ‘All’.
Be the change you want to see in the world…
Yeh I’d love a “hide all elon/twitter/x” toggle.
I’d love a way to block “all anime / hentai / manga” related topics and posts.
That stuff is everywhere, and invades everything. Like a cancer. Even communities which aren’t anime related. I’ll be subscribed to some community because I’m into the topic the community is based on - which has nothing to do with anime- and then some damn anime fan comes along and posts some weird/creepy “anime/hentai version of [topic]” and then it just spirals from there, and another community turns into another fucking anime community.
Believe it or not, not everyone on the internet is obsessed with Japanese style animation, and the associated (weird/creepy) sexualization of such drawn/animated characters.
What is most creepy about it is that all the “women” look like kids. They look like little girls with really big boobs. I don’t understand the appeal.
I dont think I’ve literally ever seen that happen and I’ve been on the Internet since I could walk
I guess we have different interests / see different things on the internet. But it definitely happens. Often.
Almost every “comics” community I’ve joined on here has gone from people talking about actual published comics to people postin webcomics and their own works within days.
I’m the same, I routinely filter out anime stuff. Probably the most annoying thing is that I started playing FFXiV and now my in-line adverts are for gaccha anime crap and generally super cringe/bonk horny.
