This community is for photography and interesting images. This isn’t the place for shitposts about trump overshadowing quality posts. There’s already 10 other communities people can go to for that.
And more. Can we ban these low effort political posts and go back to having a decent community? Thanks.
This a major cultural moment. It’ll pass. Get over it.
Yes please. Tired of blocking communities. I already know the world is on fire. Don’t need daily reminders.
so you’re complaining about what might be one of the most famous photos to ever come out of the United States in a photography sub yeah okay
Honestly, I’m in agreement with OP. Yes it’s going to be/is a “famous” photo, but I join subs like this to NOT see all the depressing political/end of world/consumerism crap. There are plenty of other places for cheerosupremes mugshot. I personally scrolled past at least 20 of them on other like every other sub.
Yes. I would like to complain about that. As a photo its content is not interesting and I am fed up of Trump spam.
If you lot didn’t keep giving him all this publicity he’d be forgotten by now.
Yes please. It’s getting increasingly difficult to block US Politics from Lemmy. Unitedstatesians are so obsessed with it. I don’t want to be force to see it ALL OF THE TIME EVERYWHERE!
I think you’ll probably have to start blocking users. Not ideal, though.
Sometimes, it’s all you can do. The political talk is so heated people are starting to harass each other over it. It’s what the block feature is supposed to be for.
Honestly, all of Lemmy needs to sit down and decide whether this is the direction they truly want to allow their platform to go in, because so far, I am not impressed.
I disagree that all of Lemmy needs to pick a direction. That’s the nice thing about instances. You can spin up your own and do what you want on there.
I think a lot of this would be resolved by more features. Instance blocking on user side should be a thing, for example. I think some app does it, but it’s not a feature of the whole platform. Also, if there was a way to automatically link multiple communities of the same topic from different instances, I think it would cut down on a lot of the repetitive content we see on All. But that would have to be a feature you can toggle, otherwise I can imagine it breaking horribly.
USA guy here. I don’t give two fucks about politics at all. I block everyone that posts about it.
If you have Sync or Connect you can block posts with political keywords:
I don’t have anything against you American homies, it’s just the constant news coverage I’m trying to block
Unitedstatesians
The word you want is “Americans”.
I also would like political stuff kept out of non-political communities.
if U.S. is America, than why is it U.S. of America?
Canadians too are americans, like Mexicans are americans
imagine if Germans thought that European meant German 🤷
It doesn’t matter what makes sense to you. “American” is the correct term.
Do you also say “Unitedkingdomers” since the “British Isles” includes the Republic of Ireland?
no, you just say Irish, they’re lucky like that.
when precision is needed, we also have English, Scottish, Welsh &c.
Mexicans and Canadians too are Americans. So i will just call you Bob from now on.
Hello Bob, how’s your day?
American is the correct term. Nothing you say will change that.
i say abracadabra!
now you’re just bob
Canadians and Mexicans are “North Americans”. Brazilians are “South Americans”. People who live in the US call themselves Americans. That’s just how language works, buddy. If it irritates your pedantic bone so much, the only solution is to build a time machine to go back a few centuries and change it.
The U.S. are far from the only people that colloquially call us “Americans.” This is a non issue.
And if you really want to be pedantic, all South Americans are Americans too.
