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

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    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.

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      By giving people the opportunity to host their own instances and create their own communities with rules they like. This however does not mean that everything should be allowed everywhere. Actually this means that everywhere you go people make their own rules and if you dont like them, go somewhere else or create your own community.

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        This however is the main problem of social media in general. It creates circles of like-minded people where it is really easy to reject “other” thoughts and accept “our” ideas without much questioning. This is less a problem for people who are trained in critical thinking, but might be dangerous for more unstable people.

        I’m just saying that a mix of different views is always good to some degree. Whether/how this should be done on Lemmy is a different thing.

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        15 days ago

        Ridiculous copy/paste reply. You’re not making a good case for people leaving corporate media for Lemmy. You’re encouraging them to stay where they are.

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          What’s wrong about it though? The freedom lies in the ability to create your own community that is not regulated by one company/organisation owning the platform. You can go to the place where you agree with the rules and you don’t have to live under the rules of someone you don’t like.

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            They’re just butthurt that they’re not being allowed to spew their hot takes all over this community as a captive audience that isn’t interested.

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              Nobody was doing that here, though. Have you even seen this community? It’s super inactive to begin with.

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            What’s wrong is fracturing. Lemmy is not so massive that it can sustain niche communities for every little topic.

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          Not every sub has to revolve around US elections all day/weeks/months long. That has nothing to do with corporate media.

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            If some other country had a historic election, I would HOPE to see open dialog spread in places like this for people to express themselves. Why ban an internationally relevant discussion when people have the choice to be members of the community. How about - if you don’t like it, you can leave.

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              But there are places for the discussion to be made. Lemmy as a whole did not ban the elections discussion, just this one specific sub. In fact, you’ll see basically every single sub of Lemmy discussing it.

              This is a temporary rule for 1 single community.

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      I’m for making a megathread for people who really want to talk about it here but I genuinely don’t understand why you’re upset you can’t talk about US politics everywhere in the platform. There are tons of communities for that. AskLemmy is for

      open-ended, thought provoking questions

      Instead, most US related posts are for venting and complaining. See these communities instead:

      !politics@lemmy.world

      !aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

      !leftism@lemmy.world

      !politicalhumor@lemmy.world

      !news@lemmy.world

      And dozens of similar communities on other instances. It’s not censorship to ask you to go to use the proper channels, not everyone here wants to see US news everywhere.

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        It’d be different if the instance was actually crowded and overrun, but it isn’t. The instance gets like 20 posts on a good day.

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        upset you can’t talk about US politics everywhere in the platform

        I’m upset that a moderator believes that banning the discussion of a major national / international event is healthy for the community. I could understand that for a niche community like Music but not one of the most popular general purpose ones. There’s no reason this should be banned other than a personal preference. This informs me that the moderators of this community are not interested in an open platform for genuine discussion.

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          I’m not from the US and my Lemmy feed has been absolutely FLOODED with US political news for MONTHS. Yesterday’s vote was the bushel that broke the camel’s back, and I definitely understand non-political communities not wanting to be even more flooded with US politics than they already are.

          Go complain about your broken country in politics-oriented communities, please, and let us talk about other, less despair-inducing subjects.

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        How is the American presidential choice of picking 80 year old sociopath Donald Trump not a thought provoking issue?

        But sure. Let’s focus on why Bananas are yellow.

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      Mods are people of the community too. If you don’t like them, you can make your own community.

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        That’s a bad take. The mods made the choice to moderate a general-purpose community in the first place. If they want a more narrowly-focused community, they should make one.

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      Because we’re glad it is finally over after having deal with your election bullshit for the last half year? We made contingency plans for a trump win, so we acknowledged his win this morning, hope the planning is sufficient, and finally move on to something else.

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      Because you can go to literally any instance and create a community just for political drivel or even just go to the hundreds of other communities already dedicated to exactly that.

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      Bye, no one misses you. You won’t be much valuable for this community anyways so it’s better if you aren’t here

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      100% agree.

      The moderation is completely out of hand. Instead of being happy we have a platform where we can discuss things outside of big tech platforms, we have people who think moderation is more important than letting people express what is on their mind, specially on this day.

      Wish I could make the mods be a bit mature here, but probably not.

      Whats next, banning people for discussing moderation? I would not be surprised at this point.

      I’ve been here from the start so I’m just angry to see this kind of thing here. Whoever mod who did this should look in the mirror and think “is my behavior a plus or a minus for the platform”.