This community is for photography and interesting images. This isn’t the place for shitposts about trump overshadowing quality posts. There’s already 10 other communities people can go to for that.
And more. Can we ban these low effort political posts and go back to having a decent community? Thanks.
Now that I am back available, all the duplicates have been removed, the first posting of the photo is locked. I will see if I can make a poll when I am off mobile to get a community consensus on if we want to ban all political pictures. I don’t have a preference one way or the other, but this is about what the community wants to do. We don’t generally get a lot of political posts anyways outside of this special event.
If you are curious as to what gets done behind the scenes, go to the sidebar, scroll to the bottom near the mod list and select “mod log”. This shows every action a mod as taken,
who has taken it(mods can only see which mod did which action it seems), and who or what it was against.Yes please. It’s getting increasingly difficult to block US Politics from Lemmy. Unitedstatesians are so obsessed with it. I don’t want to be force to see it ALL OF THE TIME EVERYWHERE!
If you have Sync or Connect you can block posts with political keywords:
I don’t have anything against you American homies, it’s just the constant news coverage I’m trying to block
USA guy here. I don’t give two fucks about politics at all. I block everyone that posts about it.
I think you’ll probably have to start blocking users. Not idead, though.
Sometimes, it’s all you can do. The political talk is so heated people are starting to harass each other over it. It’s what the block feature is supposed to be for.
Honestly, all of Lemmy needs to sit down and decide whether this is the direction they truly want to allow their platform to go in, because so far, I am not impressed.
I disagree that all of Lemmy needs to pick a direction. That’s the nice thing about instances. You can spin up your own and do what you want on there.
I think a lot of this would be resolved by more features. Instance blocking on user side should be a thing, for example. I think some app does it, but it’s not a feature of the whole platform. Also, if there was a way to automatically link multiple communities of the same topic from different instances, I think it would cut down on a lot of the repetitive content we see on All. But that would have to be a feature you can toggle, otherwise I can imagine it breaking horribly.
Unitedstatesians
The word you want is “Americans”.
I also would like political stuff kept out of non-political communities.
if U.S. is America, than why is it U.S. of America?
Canadians too are americans, like Mexicans are americans
imagine if Germans thought that European meant German 🤷
The U.S. are far from the only people that colloquially call us “Americans.” This is a non issue.
And if you really want to be pedantic, all South Americans are Americans too.
yes, of course they are
It comes across more as a resident of a USO show to me.
It doesn’t matter what makes sense to you. “American” is the correct term.
Do you also say “Unitedkingdomers” since the “British Isles” includes the Republic of Ireland?
no, you just say Irish, they’re lucky like that.
when precision is needed, we also have English, Scottish, Welsh &c.
Mexicans and Canadians too are Americans. So i will just call you Bob from now on.
Hello Bob, how’s your day?
American is the correct term. Nothing you say will change that.
i say abracadabra!
now you’re just bob
Canadians and Mexicans are “North Americans”. Brazilians are “South Americans”. People who live in the US call themselves Americans. That’s just how language works, buddy. If it irritates your pedantic bone so much, the only solution is to build a time machine to go back a few centuries and change it.
Nah man. Why give the whole continent a bad name just because the people in the middle of it are arseholes?
They didn’t - they called it France.
so you’re complaining about what might be one of the most famous photos to ever come out of the United States in a photography sub yeah okay
Because spam totally counts as photography, right?
As if there aren’t already 5,000 communities to post about US politics, you have to bring it literally everywhere. What’s wrong with keeping politics in their respective subs? Do you think we should spam every community every time something happens? It’s obvious this place is for aesthetically pleasing or interesting photos, and this is neither.
you’re missing the point, it’s a historical photograph in a photography sub… if it does belong anywhere it would be here if you appreciate historical photographs
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Yes. I would like to complain about that. As a photo its content is not interesting and I am fed up of Trump spam.
If you lot didn’t keep giving him all this publicity he’d be forgotten by now.
Honestly, I’m in agreement with OP. Yes it’s going to be/is a “famous” photo, but I join subs like this to NOT see all the depressing political/end of world/consumerism crap. There are plenty of other places for cheerosupremes mugshot. I personally scrolled past at least 20 of them on other like every other sub.
Yes please. Tired of blocking communities. I already know the world is on fire. Don’t need daily reminders.
I agree. I definitely could do without seeing any political posts in this community.
I don’t even mind the one post. But why is the same picture up several times? And the South Park meme isn’t even a photo, it’s a screenshot. The Zoolander one is a photo and a screenshot spliced together.
I agree with OP. There are better places to post those. And the duplicate posts should have been removed immediately.
They have been removed, the first posted is locked. I was unavailable to check in on c/pics due to family reasons the last 14 hours.
Thanks for all your hard work. You’re amazing.
Thank you :)
Surprised they’re not banned already. I would have no problem with this type of content being banned. Political content belongs on political subs.
Any Lemmy app where I can filter out content on keywords like Trump and Musk will be my new daily.
If you are on ios, Memmy can.
There is already a rule for this:
3… No spam posting/trolling.
I don’t object to it being shown once, but the repetition should not be allowed. As someone has already said Politics pervades everything, it would be a difficult one to enforce. So instead of trying to reinvent the wheel just stop the trolling.
I have to agree, we have Politics, News and World News for that.
This a major cultural moment. It’ll pass. Get over it.
Yes please. There are many communities that have to do with politics, as you mention, and I’m so tired of seeing US politics all over everything all of the time.
I didn’t expect or want to see Trump’s mug in this community either… But at the same time I guess I’m not totally surprised
Yes please. It’s even more annoying on fediverse social networks because for some reason people can’t use proper tags and instead use allegories or inside jokes to refer to trump or musk so I can’t even filter it out properly.
I totally support this. Political images or images with a political message should have their own forum.
