Until the rule is removed, any new posts about US politics will be removed.

  • where_am_i@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    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.

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    11 hours ago

    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?

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        10 hours ago

        I like preference for self posts!

        Proper discussion, not politics echo chamber staffed by dnc clowns

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          10 hours ago

          politics echo chamber

          That better be talking about a lack of diverse left wing opinions, not just a lack of republicans

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            10 hours ago

            both… and more…

            US political discourse is a pathetic Republican/Democrat circle jerk, then pika face when all we get are regime whore clowns swapping the office while quality of life deteriorates for bottom 80%

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      11 hours ago

      That’s what I’ve told so many complaining people. If anyone wanted to they could make one and it would be filled with users in hours, just click create community. Hell tell the mods here to suggest people go there for those discussions, they’d probably link it in the sidebar. But someone has to do it. (And as a mod of a few other communities, someone else can take that one)

      • Allero@lemmy.today
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        7 hours ago

        No, US exceptionalism is turning every single general purpose community into US politics.

        For the 4% of Earth’s population that does indeed live in the US, there could be local communities.

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          7 hours ago

          It’s still weird to me that there is no US instance. LW and lemm.ee are hosted in Europe, SJW and lemmy.ca in Canada, lemmy.ml and hexbear use a European datacenter.

          I mean there is midwest.social and dubvee, but we could have expected a large US instance to have emerged by now.

          The closest is probably https://lemmy.today/, but only has 194 users per month.

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            There used to be dmv.social, which iirc was in Washington DC? It got shut down due to the CSAM attacks, before the automated software, and iirc just frustration in general with how toxic people were being.

            And I see a bunch more actually, at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer. 2 of the top 20 instances even are located in the USA. Lemmy.sdf.org with >500 MAUs, beehaw.org with ~400, StarTrek.website with ~200, lemmy.today, ttrpgnetwork, and discuss.online (where jgrim of SubLinks is an admin) are all recognizable. Ofc, the caveat being if I am reading that page correctly - or like perhaps some proxy was used, even a random one and this data could be all wrong who knows - but it at least looks this way?:-)

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            As a lemmy.today user myself (though not American), it’s cozy in there!

            But the numbers are surprisingly low. It’s an instance that is run without donations though, only on the good will of its creator (who refuses donations citing sufficient income to keep it as a hobby project), so I imagine having it big could potentially become a strain.

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            3 hours ago

            It’s still weird to me that there is no US instance.

            Damn good thing. We definitely don’t want one hosted in a fascist country.

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    12 hours ago

    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.

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    3 hours ago

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

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          Tbh I’m thinking about heading back to .world. I joined .ee cos I thought the memes and edgy shit from hexbear were funny and wanted to keep seeing it without losing most of lemmy. But watching how hexbear is currently acting, I’m running out of reasons to put up with how some .ee folks behave.

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    12 hours ago

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

    • Today@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      I get that it’s annoying, but we’re sad, and angry, and scared, and we don’t know where to go. Maybe someone will make us a community called “Now what?” where we can cry, shout, wallow a bit, and then make a plan for survival.

    • Rolando@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Sure, but… is “too much discussion” really a problem that Lemmy has? This is kind of a threatening time for some of us, especially if we don’t have a lot of friends irl.

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        11 hours ago

        “Too much off topic discussion or discussion in one topic that stifles other conversations”

        Better?

            • rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
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              7 hours ago

              What conversations, specifically

              Lol, okay, very specific. I’m also talking about this community, where this rule was made despite there being basically 1 post per hour.

                • rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
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                  Why? I’m Canadian, so I guess the NATO requirement that we increase military spending to 4% of our GDP ($41 billion dollars). It’s pretty contentious and fucked up. It’s not like I’m an American single-issue voter, sorry to burst your bubble.

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    12 hours ago

    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!

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    12 hours ago

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

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

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      11 hours ago

      This is an ask community, not a politics community. Not everything revolves around America

      • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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        11 hours ago

        … And now you can’t ask anything about politics. There’s was doubtless going to be political questions to ask, and politic adjacent (where do I move) that will all be removed.

        And you can’t even ask about effects on the world either! Gaza, Ukraine, NATO, trade, tariffs, etc. Are those going to be removed? All valid questions, but sounds political to me.

        Like way to shut down shit tons of conversation.

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          6 hours ago

          THIS ISN’T A DISCUSSION COMMUNITY! IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS. MOST POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS AREN’T OPEN ENDED.

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            6 hours ago

            Seriously? You’re this pedantic on the word discussion? Ok I will amend my first comment to:

            We just had probably the most consequential election of our life and you want to ban discussionquestions and the resulting discussion in the comments?

            Jeez all over again.

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        9 hours ago

        How does that disqualify US political questions from being posted here, then?

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        9 hours ago

        Not American, but can’t we let the country with the highest user count have one day to process this and wonder about the consequences? Even I need time and have questions lol. The US and Canada have a very, uh, close relationship, so this affects me too.

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    11 hours ago

    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.