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Not only would I like to not hear about any of the assholes or shitty crap going on for a week, id like to not talk about them either. Is it even possible?

Not for like censorship reasons but for more mental health and logic reasons. Do people's moods improve? Is more interesting and funny content generated? Does the media/news algorthym absolutely shit itself?

Yes yes I'm sure you can filter out what you don't want to see personally and what not blah blah blah, but I mean for us. All of us. Maybe we just need to ignore the fuccbois for a bit. Imagine a world without them

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Its unhealthy to ignore and hide away from problems of the world.

If you want to avoid that sort of content, either setup keyword / instance blocks to control what you see, or go offline entirely for some time.

To follow your suggestion though - theres no one person/team that controls the fediverse. To get, for example, all trump posts banned across all the fediverse you would need agreement from all instance admins to agree to it, and enforce it

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Its unhealthy to ignore and hide away from problems of the world.

I'd argue it's unhealthy to obsess over the same topics every day/week/month/year but okay a week off from it is "unhealthy?" Nah.

To get, for example, all trump posts banned across all the fediverse you would need agreement from all instance admins to agree to it, and enforce it

Yeah I kinda figured. Could the whole fediverse ignore man babies for a week? I bet no, but I'd love to be surprised

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd argue it's unhealthy to obsess over the same topics every day/week/month/year

Then stop obsessing over them.

And stop projecting your obsession onto the entire fediverse.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

Motherfucker my whole feed had Trump biden and Elon every other post

[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why do you want to control what other people say so much?

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

I feel like none of you read the post

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're getting the response you expected, and that's just how it is, but I am here in solidarity with being so FUCKING BORED of having to hear about these motherfuckers all the time.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

Yeah it's like giving dumbass unruly kids a mic and a stage and then encouraging bad behavior

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I’ll decide what I see and don’t see, thank you very much.

What kind of chump would support a paternalistic idea like this?

Go back to being a Reddit admin and stay there if you want to force restrictions on other users for their own good.

Edit: Another idea is for you to start your own Lemmy instance. IMO, PaternalisticChumps.world has a great ring to it.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

Yeah okay keep feeding the monster then here I've got one for you "Go back to the Washington Post and write an article about how this post oppressed you so much"

[–] bestusername@aussie.zone 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you want to live in a bubble, use filters, the rest of us can just continue to live outside.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

You're already in a bubble buddy it has a Koch/Murdoch trademark stamped on it

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you're pushing for restricting certain views for a few days, that's still censorship. You can argue whether it's justified or not, but it's still censorship.

Regarding whether it's possible or not; technically it is. There are certainly instances or groups of instances that have imposed strict federation requirements and closed themselves off in little bubbles, for better or worse. You'd probably not get the entire fediverse on board though, especially if it's "just an experiment".

Also, these people are political figureheads; blocking discussions about them won't actually solve anything. People will still talk about their policies and opinions. If you block that, people will argue about what should and shouldn't be blocked (hint: it isn't self-evident).

I think the system we have works fine. Explicit political things are usually behind comment warnings (on Masto). Many communities have "no politics" rules (although imo moderators should be better about that...).

Also, there is so much bad news on the fediverse that doesn't traditionally count as politics. Imo it's a bit naïve to assume that banning discussions about certain people will magically make people happier.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

I was merely suggesting taking away the children's stage. Perhaps people just have to decide they're bored of the subject on their own. Too bad there's a billion dollar media machine committed to that not happening