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How the fuck is Lemmy supposed to serve as an open alternative to corporate controlled social media when the mods ban discussing one of the most impactful events of the day? You should be begging people to talk about politics here. Unsubbed. EDIT: AND BLOCKED. If I wanted to hang out in a fascist community I'd join twitter.
By giving people the opportunity to host their own instances and create their own communities with rules they like. This however does not mean that everything should be allowed everywhere. Actually this means that everywhere you go people make their own rules and if you dont like them, go somewhere else or create your own community.
This however is the main problem of social media in general. It creates circles of like-minded people where it is really easy to reject "other" thoughts and accept "our" ideas without much questioning. This is less a problem for people who are trained in critical thinking, but might be dangerous for more unstable people.
I'm just saying that a mix of different views is always good to some degree. Whether/how this should be done on Lemmy is a different thing.
Absolutely. If this rule was a permanent rule I don't think so many people would defend it. However from experience (reddit for example) I think many people know that US politics has the ability to claim and overrun just about every space on the "western" internet. This is not something that really creates value for many people especially those that don't live in the US and I think this ruling is trying to prevent that.
I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but there is an argument to be made that we should actually go back to smaller, more secluded forums on the internet that are less connected with outside views.
Very interesting, haven't seen that Kurzgesagt yet, thanks for sharing 🤘🏻
Interesting, thanks
I generally agree with your points on not wanting to create echo chambers; however, another reason for temporarily banning the topic imo is not just to block people talking about it but also to protect people who are already hurting, grieving, and generally just trying to find some sort of escape at the moment. Creating a space that will guarantee a temporary escape is nice, I think.
I'm for making a megathread for people who really want to talk about it here but I genuinely don't understand why you're upset you can't talk about US politics everywhere in the platform. There are tons of communities for that. AskLemmy is for
Instead, most US related posts are for venting and complaining. See these communities instead:
!politics@lemmy.world
!aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
!leftism@lemmy.world
!politicalhumor@lemmy.world
!news@lemmy.world
And dozens of similar communities on other instances. It's not censorship to ask you to go to use the proper channels, not everyone here wants to see US news everywhere.
!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world too
Thank you for responding with a redirect instead of a shut-down.
It'd be different if the instance was actually crowded and overrun, but it isn't. The instance gets like 20 posts on a good day.
Mods are people of the community too. If you don't like them, you can make your own community.
That's a bad take. The mods made the choice to moderate a general-purpose community in the first place. If they want a more narrowly-focused community, they should make one.
Because we're glad it is finally over after having deal with your election bullshit for the last half year? We made contingency plans for a trump win, so we acknowledged his win this morning, hope the planning is sufficient, and finally move on to something else.
Because you can go to literally any instance and create a community just for political drivel or even just go to the hundreds of other communities already dedicated to exactly that.
No kidding.
!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world
... You know you can just create a community and post stuff there, right?
Good riddance man, Sheesh. Why are you so upset?
Bye, no one misses you. You won't be much valuable for this community anyways so it's better if you aren't here
Most impactful event of the decade. This reaches far beyond the US.
Feel free to discuss it on !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/politicaldiscussion
You can literally go anywhere to see your dumbass yank circus. Leave me alone.
Boohoo I'll believe that when it happens. In the meanwhile there's literally nothing I can do about it. Instead of cry and doompost on the internet I'd rather focus on things that matter and keep a positive outlook.
Go away.