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Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world
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Rather than block lists, just subscribe to the lemmy communities that interest you and don't subscribe to political/news communities. Then view lemmy through the "subscribed" feed rather than the "all" feed - no political posts - problem solved.
I trawl through All to find new communities though, and a short blocklist makes that much easier.
Doesn't help. Everything from the meme/joke/fun communities you'd expect people to use to tune out The Horrors™ to discussion about the ActivityPub standards (what little exists that doesn't conflate it with Just Lemmy or Just Mastodon) devolve to US politics in like two comments. For me at least this entire section of fedi is a US politics-radioactive one I try spending as little time as possible (that includes posting non-politics!)
I find myself having significantly more fun on the microblogging side of the fedi, ruining jokes to ground in like 4 minutes with my oomfs and making followup meta jokes about how jokes only last 4 minutes. People actually use content warnings to hide away The Horrors™ when they want to talk about it, which means filters actually work. (Things like alt text for images also helps with word filters!)
Huh, it's almost as if politics matters because it affects people's lives, and so people feel motivated to talk about it. Who knew?? 🤯🤷
Just because you wish to talk about your own country does not mean I want to listen to the politics of a country I am not a citizen/resident of nor have ever set foot in. That's what content warnings and other functionality allow me to do. Unfortunately, Lemmy.
(Also notice how I specifically single out "US politics" and not "politics" in general. That is a different thing where "politics" is sometimes used to mean "anything I don't like not from a white cis het from the upper middle class person". That is not the case here. I am simply tired of hearing about Trump and Biden and Harris and whoever the new VP is or whoever the Republican Main Character of the day is or the Democrat Main Character of the day is)