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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.
Isn't including "American, Canada, Canadian" a bit far? Lot's of non political contexts for those.
Hmm that's true, I guess the posts were just irrelevant to where I live. I will remove them from the list though since I want it to be universal
EU? That would be like banning USA.
I actually considered removing EU when I removed 'American' 'America' and 'Canadian', but I figured that 'EU' does usually refer to political news.
Depends. If you are talking to Asia or US just referring to yourself or a place as EU is the best option. Same goes for technical documentation. There is for example "EU machine directive" which would trigger the block list.
Canada, Canadian
There goes most of my feed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ah see i just block the accounts that post the bullshit.
there's only like three of them.
Oh, I expected there to be more
well done I too am sick of political garbage whichever country
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
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
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.
Yeah I wish there was a collaborative, exhaustive list of all political subreddits (in like a Google sheet or something
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.
Why don't you just block the entire politics community? I use Sync, is that a Sync-only thing?
Blocking the overtly political communities only takes the edge off. So many other people insist on posting it every goddamn where anyway.
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
Yes, like the memes community for example
Yeah or pics
"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?
Of course there isn't and I know that very well. But I mean 'apolitical' in a common sense way.
Also abortion, law, rights