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Suggestion: Just like a NSFW tag, it would help to have a Political tag. (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I would love to sometimes filter out any and all political posts, I think having this enabled as default on some instances would also be preferred by some users.

I'm a software dev, if it doesn't require a lot of work I'm happy to make a Pull Request for this feature, but do people want this? Is there anyone I should maybe talk to before starting, or anything I should know?

Edit: I realise it won't filter out ALL political posts, but even if it only catches half of the stuff, it could make the difference between being flooded with Trump/Musk news and not.

Some new users might turn away before knowing the can set filters etc. (which also aren't perfect)

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[–] rbits@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I get that. But I just don't browse lemmy much anymore cause all I see is politics. I specifically went out of my way to not subscribe to political communities. But look at the top posts of !technology@lemmy.world, a community I subscribed to for posts about technology, not politics.

3 of the top 4 are about Trump. They are obviously political, there's no ambiguity there.

This is especially annoying as someone not from the US.