Same. Though can we also add a button to hide all content pertaining to US state politics? “The governor of Arkansas-” I live in The Netherlands, that shit has no bearing on me
Same ! I live in india , but seems like i am wayyy to updated with us political news !ugh
To be fair, I am Lithuanian and a lot of stuff online goes like અને પછી તેઓ કેટલીક અસ્પષ્ટ ભાષા બોલવાનું શરૂ કરે છે
Well, since we’re here, what are the big news where you live these days?
This makes more sense than sports filter lol Fuck that USA politics ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I kinda like it as a soap opera. I hate actual soaps, but this is a better version to watch.
I can go through so much popcorn.
I must admit some of it is so hilarious and farcical it does seem like a soap opera… I put on US news for a short spurt every day for giggles… Until that commercial comes on with the slimy woman advertising a deodorant cream she puts in her butt crack
Her facial expressions and those in all that type of commercial piss me off so much
For real man
A huge part of that is american-centric attitudes though. There is the politics sub on Lemmy.world and it’s only for US politics. But it’s not called “usonlypolitics” it’s called “politics”. Somehow they don’t see the problem with that.
Also the mods are been absolutely bellends about it and are refusing to even acknowledge that that is a problem.
But why would the world champions of egg handball see a problem with this?
It will when we stop being the Republic and get this Empire phase rolling.
I got used to it, you just need to look at the US as a union of states like Europe, in which case Arkansas is about equivalent to Lithuania in population (although if you correct for the more states and less pop of the US you get Bulgaria or Finland if you use a ranked method) . The same could be done for China, India and Brazil.
Give us an option to block memes as well then, my biggest issue with Lemmy is the tsunami of terrible and practically unavoidable memes. I don’t ever see sports content, rarely see NSFW content, there is a fair amount of Elon spam, but really the worst are the memes. Even doing my best to hide the meme communities they are unavoidable.
If you’re not here for memes or porn then why?!
/s
The main problem being that people have dug up the last 10 years of reddit memes to repost then on Lemmy.
The only two communities I blocked were just a barrage of memes straight to the frontpage.
If we hid meme communities, I’m not sure there would be any posts left.
“Did you see that ludicrous display last night?”
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
Thing about Arsenal is they always try’n walk it in.
The thing about Arsenal is that they always try and walk it in.
This is the only sports-related comment thread that is acceptable.
No, they’ve gone plaid.
With Sync you can just pre-emptively filter based on keywords.
Nah, give me all them SuperbOwls.
Hentai is my favourite sport
I love not having to see any posts about Elon or Shitter. Sync is great.
It would be nice if every community had to pick a tag associated with it so that you can automatically filter out communities you have no interest in. E.g. Politics, news, memes, sports, tech, celebrities, TV/Movies, etc…
I’d filter out Mr [Trump] and similar ilk immediately.
I wouldn’t. Seeming him go down in his current trail is just pure entertainment gold
That’s a great idea. I’d prefer this instead of instances that are mainly focused on specific topics
I really wish there could be tags and sub-tags.
Tag examples:
- Politics
- Sport
- Anime
- News
- AI
Sub-tag examples:
- US
- Europe
- Africa
- Basketball
- Volleyball
- F1
Some sort of curated list by Lemmy developers that might change over time depending on user demand.
Then client apps can fetch such list from any server and allow you to apply such filter.
Imagine being able to block whole category of sports? Anime? News? Whatever people want/don’t want.
I think this is the only good thing Tildes has with tags, tags can work as sub-comunities inside a sublemmy.
I would like the platform itself to support this, as I often use the website.
That’s why he said Lemmy developers, not instance developers.
This would be freaking awesome. Doesn’t seem like it would be too difficult to add, but then again, I’m not a developer.
“Hide all American news” would basically fix 50% of the issues.
Since you’ve apparently seen so many, I would love for you to link me to a sports community that is actually active. Everything out there is completely dead, usually with one person reposting content from reddit or Twitter.
Be the change you want to see in the world…
Where is the “hide all americans” button?
Let me know when you find it lol
Especially US politics. I couldn’t care less.
Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
For any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
I’d love a way to block “all anime / hentai / manga” related topics and posts.
That stuff is everywhere, and invades everything. Like a cancer. Even communities which aren’t anime related. I’ll be subscribed to some community because I’m into the topic the community is based on - which has nothing to do with anime- and then some damn anime fan comes along and posts some weird/creepy “anime/hentai version of [topic]” and then it just spirals from there, and another community turns into another fucking anime community.
Believe it or not, not everyone on the internet is obsessed with Japanese style animation, and the associated (weird/creepy) sexualization of such drawn/animated characters.
What is most creepy about it is that all the “women” look like kids. They look like little girls with really big boobs. I don’t understand the appeal.
Exactly! That’s what bothers me about the “art” the most. Ew!
I’m the same, I routinely filter out anime stuff. Probably the most annoying thing is that I started playing FFXiV and now my in-line adverts are for gaccha anime crap and generally super cringe/bonk horny.
Here I am trying to find sports content.
As a person from a country that has near zero knowledge, awareness, and enthusiasm for American Football, I agree.
Or a “hide all political posts” button. As an American, I already hate the next few months as the next generation of liars run for President.
Yes please holy fuck…
You’re sick of it? At least it’s relevant to you.
What I’m sick of finding out is what various American ex news outlet anchors are doing. Who cares? Why are news anchors celebrities in the United States, it’s weird.
Yeah I’ll ask for the “Hide US” button
New generation? That would be a change
As a European, US politics is a good comedy
Oh my fucking God yes. Every individual pro (nfl?) football team has a sub Every individual pro fifa (whatever) soccer team has a sub Every individual ice hockey team has a sub Polo. Formula 1. COLLEGE football teams! College football divisions! And whos going to the super bowl. Basketball. A sub for who’s going to make it to the final 5. Volleyball. Whatever big volleyball bullshit is. And then relevant WOMENS versions for all of these (no extra hate, just extra numbers) Baseball! Baseball teams history!
Then there’s leagues! Big10. The other big conference! Every coalition for Soccer. Conferences for Basketball. Divisions for hockey. Like holy shit! There’s more categories for sports than nsfw!
EDIT: I need to add that I did the math in another comment: there are (For a US citizen) 32 NFL teams and 113 College football teams. 32 Fifa Soccer teams. 29 US Mens soccer clubs (plus 3 Canadian). 12 More Women’s Soccer teams -only one league. 10 Formula 1drivers/teams. 8 womens volleyball teams. 30 mens baseball teams (29US 1 Canada). 32 teams in the NHL. and lastly, 30 NBA teams. In total this is 331 “Teams” and is the bare minimum before consulting each city will post about a game, individual players with followings, and broad subs like “MLB” is different from “Orioles” and results in more subs needed to block
Sports, Religion and War, the 3 most wasteful activities humans have invented.
