Temporary rule added: no US politics

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.

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

Please reconsider this rule.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Rare dotworld mod W

Please permanentize this!

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.

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?

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.

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 !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world 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!

I came here since I was fed up with the politics on Reddit.

I was pretty disappointed when I saw the same thing happening here. So thanks!

Thank you! Could this be permanent? People can use an AskLemmyPolitics community if they really need to.

We get 10ish posts here a day... I guess if you want less activity here good job you win. I hate these temp rules in communities.

We just had probably the most consequential election of our life and you want to ban discussion? Jeezus.

Wow the mods really are gay.

Can we still post questions about politics when it comes to moving outside the united states?

Let me guess, this rule would've never ever been created if Trump lost.

This is, wow. Just. Wow.

Lemmy World mods being retarded as usual

What a stupid fucking ass rule, fragile ass mods. Goodbye, community blocked.

Doubling down on the censorship of inconvenient truths will surely help after your whole instance demonstrated the folly in censoring inconvenient truths. /s

Remember: if you think you have to censor the truth about your supposed left wing candidate of choice, they’re probably NOT actually very leftist at all and you’re doing fascist shit directly for a fascist.

If you refuse to allow people to speak the truth, you’re not even doing a decent job, pretending to be one of the “ good guys”.

?