Just as the title suggest. Is there anyway we can prevent Lemmy from being such a giant sphere of political annoyance just like Reddit? No matter where you go on reddit before the API changes and even now, someone has to bring politics into it. Even in post or subreddits where it’s not needed.
So once again, is there anyway we can stop that from happening and just allow the communities in Lemmy to be genuine?
Post, comment, upvote non-political stuff. It signals “I want to see more of this”.
Downvote political off-topic. Talking about Mao Zedong in a thread about cat pictures is no-good, just like talking about cats in a thread about Maoism*.
Note that I’m being fairly specific on the suggestion to downvote political off-topic. Politics can - and should - be discussed; but there’s a time and a place for everything.
Also downvote the morons to tell them “you are not welcome here”. Why morons? Because morons are assumptive, and assumptive users often assume political views onto the others’ mouths.
*Unless you’re talking about 貓泽东, then both are on-topic. [/shitty joke]