Just posting my list of filter words on here in case anyone else wants to make their feed politics-free

Biden, District, EU, alt-right, democrat, democrats, desantis, elections, far right, far-right, federal, gop, Jan, maga, nomination, representatives, republican, republicans, senate, senator, trump

It’s quite refreshing.

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    1 year ago

    Isn’t including “American, Canada, Canadian” a bit far? Lot’s of non political contexts for those.

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    1 year ago

    ah see i just block the accounts that post the bullshit.

    there’s only like three of them.

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      1 year ago

      Bit too much of a moving target, I think—you’d have to adjust the list for the currently running popular shows and their major characters, every three months for the rest of eternity. And even if you did that, some posts consisting only of an image, meme, or video wouldn’t get blocked.

      What I’d like to do is block all meme posts in communities that aren’t specifically about memes or humour. Maybe when hell freezes over.

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        1 year ago

        When browsing all, yes. Tons. Even in communities that aren’t about anime.

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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the list, pretty much everything there is absolutely irrelevant to me and where I live, mas generally it’s just about Trump.

    On a side note, I also get very irritated that the news and world news communities are mainly news about American right wing politicians

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I agree with both things. I wonder what it would be like to have a feature where you only see posts/comments from your region. It would lead to more localisation. I guess it’s not a problem on other language subs but the English communities have people from everywhere. That’s obviously a good thing as well though

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    1 year ago

    well done I too am sick of political garbage whichever country

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    1 year ago

    I dipped out of r/politics on Reddit because over the past few years the general trend there has been:

    Reliable news outlet posts article > Partisan clickbait site posts their incendiary “take” on the article > Redditors post their hot takes based on misleading clickbait title without reading either article

    There’s just no value to reading hot takes from uninformed teenagers seeking only to validate and amplify their worldviews based on clickbait titles alone. It’s important to stay informed, but there’s such a diminishing return for getting news from a subreddit vs. a legitimate news outlet, and it’s definitely not worth the mental health hit. And I don’t think it’s a Reddit-exclusive thing. Personally I’d rather stick to reading news from the sources, and keep my social media focused on other things.

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      Blocking the overtly political communities only takes the edge off. So many other people insist on posting it every goddamn where anyway.

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      1 year ago

      When Trump’s mugshot dropped it was on a ton of non political subs. Some didn’t even contain the word trump so they still got through

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    1 year ago

    I block all communities that post news. I’ve never seen somewhere to enter text filters like this. Not sure I’d want to anyway.

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      1 year ago

      I’m still interested in some none political news, so this suits me better

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    Based. With RIF I had an absolutely massive blocklist. It was especially bad when Trump was in power because Redditors kept making new subs that would instantly shoot to the front page.

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      Yeah I wish there was a collaborative, exhaustive list of all political subreddits (in like a Google sheet or something

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    “Elections”, " representative", and “federal” could exclude many non-American and non-Canadian countries.

    Edit: Oh, silly me. I misread. I thought you wanted to exclude American stuff, not “political” stuff. Well that’s another conversation. Is there something that is not political? Is there something that doesn’t comment on the distributions of political goods such as significance, relevance, resource allocations (including time and attention), or value judgments?

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      1 year ago

      Of course there isn’t and I know that very well. But I mean ‘apolitical’ in a common sense way.