Ask Lemmy

This makes me more likely to actually visit here. I'm sick of reading propaganda and people spouting propaganda from all sides, and I come to spaces like this for funnies, interesting topics, and so on. My political interests go elsewhere. I appreciate not having to wade through them here.

Hey I don't mean to get political but I got a real quick question here. What the heck is an America?

I just made a post (my first actually) about this today. I think it's better for the user to decide what they want to see and use filters rather than block posts entirely.

I disagree with this decision because people need to ask questions to prepare for their safety.

Please reconsider this rule.

This should have been in effect for MONTHS leading up to their annoying elections.

It could be useful to link to some relevant communities in this posts description if people do want to ask questions.

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at this point i'm starting to believe that the reddit format just rots people's brains.
i don't know the reason behind this decision, maybe it was taken in bad faith or something, but the amount of people shitting and pissing themselves over this when there are already other communities better specialized for it is mind numbing.

Honestly I don't get the hype about the US presidency, like sure, it was kinda shocking at first how Trump won, but after that I accepted it. I'd rather listen to other issues than the same thing over and over again.

I also find it wierd that many of the fellow Australians around me know more about American politics than Australian politics, likely just because our media covers it to no effing end, sure, do one news story, but not a fucken bajillion.

It's honestly tiring to see the 20th post on the same topic from a country you don't live in

Please permanentize this!

pointless. the entire lemmy will be on fire for a month or so.

I've blocked all US political communities. I've blocked 20+ users who posted US political content in other communities. When I now filter by most popular in the last 24h, it's only US election outcome content.

Instead of complaining can someone who dislikes this decision please just create a community like "AskLemmyUS", post a link here so people can find it and get on with it?

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.

Would it be possible to have a single mega thread for all US politics questions?

There are alot of worried, scared people with alot of questions. Why not have a place for it, keeping the rest out of the community.

Thanks, other communities like [email protected] don't have such rules, the community is overriden with questions about US politics

I get it, but realistically there's only like 20 posts a day left in here. Nothing is really getting overrun.

ABOUT FUCKING TIME!