It'd be cool, and fun, if all of Lemmy had a certain no-politics day.

Maybe you should start a No Politics campaign. Have some debates over the issue. Raise it with your leaders. Find out the impacts of the new policy. Get all of Lemmy to have a vote on it.

Or you can just block/ignore the stuff you don't like. No need to force your preferences on everyone else.

Fair enough. While you’re at it, add a no anime day and a no Linux day as well. Or are we only removing things you don’t like?

I'd love to see more users / activity in the non-political niche and hobby communities. That's my holiday wish.

Sure, or you could go outside and play on some days.

It's hard not to find this kind of logic and desire to be naive and somewhat childish. I really do think it comes from a desire to go back to a time when you're a child and you don't have to worry about things.

This is already possible, on any day of the week you desire, without affecting anybody else’s preferences. I assume you’ve subscribed to certain communities that you enjoy. If so, you simply switch your view to the Subscribed feeds. You can switch back anytime you want to All. As a bonus, you could even limit yourself to viewing only the communities on your instance by using Local.

I know that comes off a little snarky, but I don’t know what you do or don’t know, so I’m going with the assumption you don’t know. Otherwise, as others have suggested, you can block communities and instances, and also add keywords to filter out specific topics.

Edit: looks like it’s a feature request for the webui. I know Mlem has a keyword filter.

my struggle with stuff like this is that, because i am lgbt, my existence is considered "political".

Usually this just means "no politics I disagree with."

"Missing the point"

From my POV, you're the one who's missing the point.

The problems is what constitutes as politics is very different to different people. Is a gay man posting about his relationship with his husband political?

First we will form a committee that monitors and tracks posts for subject matter that may be political. There will be extensive lists of what is acceptable and what isn't, topics that will be debated at length every week.

Then, roughly two months into NoPo days, a tampon v pad debate between a childfree estate lawyer and a closeted scentsy sales rep with a breeder fetish will spill over into other instances, inflaming users to pick sides. Both women will become icons on their respective feminine hygiene products until they are both viciously doxed and swatted by opposing communities.

One week after, NoPo days will ban any words related to period protection and thus incite a backlash from lemmy feminists and allied persons.

The committee will be fediversally disbanded only ten weeks into NoPo days and it's members will be forced to make alt accounts in dishonor.

Block Lemmy world politics and news subs and it will clear your feed.

It is way easier thing to do over expecting a bunch of people doing something together lol

That's what filters are for.

Good luck getting a tankie to shut the fuck up, sadly politics (or a tenuous grasp of) is all they know.

Poor little cretins.

Yes! We should elect officials from each community. Then have them get votes from their community and then we can get all the community heads together and decide what day it is. As long as it's not at the start or end of the week. I think people who want that have bad genes and should get deported back to Reddit, and make Reddit pay for it.

If there is a community that has a mix of content you like, and content you don't like, you can make a post / reach out to the mods to set up something like that.

It would be harder to do on the instance level, and impossible across instances.

For your request specifically: It's very hard to define "politics" and so I would be against such a community rule. It would make a lot of unnecessary work for the mods and be annoying for users trying to post in a community they aren't familiar with.

Personally, if I was still seeing the content I don't like 85% of the time, I wouldn't be that much happier. I'd rather just block it and be done with it.

Edit. Yikes. Way too many people taking this too seriously

People should take it seriously when anyone suggests curtailing their political speech. In this case it’s to create a little feel-good bubble for yourself, which is hardly a worthy justification. So yeah.

You can have January 23rd. 2026. Unless that's within 3 years of infrastructure week. We need to do branding on that then.

I just wish people weren't so aggressive with politics.

I've noticed a severe lack of perspective and empathy in these communities which has greatly deterred me from engaging.

Reddit was bad as well, but it seemed to attract a more rounded and informed community at least in the early days. Probably a function of fragmentation more than anything.

Just wait a month, you'll be good.

I love the idea

Might as well shut down the whole damn site like nickelodeon day of play

"Everything is political."

Missing the point.

What is the point?

On an individual community this could work, sure, but on the whole website you would effectively be closing certain communities entirely.

The irony is that this post itself is political.

Love the idea, but good luck. Federation has some downsides, one of them being it will be literally impossible to get consensus on this from all servers.

People who complain about “politics” on this platform really show their whole ass by revealing they’re actually just right-wing nutjobs or Russian trolls. So which are you?

this is why i like to create lists (on social) or bookmark certain communities instead of subscribing or following so it can easily be put aside when i need a mental health day (which, being trans, is more often than not these days :|)

I think we should also have an only politics day so we hate it even more. Something like clockwork orange maybe.

This is a joke but it could be interesting.

I just block the communities and users. Can't rawdog lemmy.

Turns out there are numerous communities with no political content. One could choose to only read those, on any given day.

In your edit where you say that many people take this too seriously, that's you taking it too seriously. Stop being so sensitive. Don't have a hissy fit. We're all just playing around, right?

I use filters on voyager to block whatever annoys me.

sigh. lemmy users take themselves too seriously and this thread is proof

No politics means to not speak to anyone. Anything can be construed as political speech.

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Did you have a day in mind? Does it cater to only one country? Is there something to learn from that ?

Just block em. By blocking a half dozen politics subs and a dozen or so chronically online leftist agendaposters I've really cleared the air. Makes the experience a lot more enjoyable. :)

Upvoted because this comments section is nuts

I'm guessing this site would be a dud on that day, since most of yall have about as much charisma as an old shoe.

I like how everyone here is missing the point entirely. I don't want yet another heated comments section. Why is it to complicated to not have everyone dying on some random hill.

I feel like the entire comment section just proves the op's point ¯_(ツ)_/¯

If you don’t like politics, just move to a country where you don’t get to vote. Problem solved.