• Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
    1074·
    1 year ago

    Same. Though can we also add a button to hide all content pertaining to US state politics? “The governor of Arkansas-” I live in The Netherlands, that shit has no bearing on me

    • panCatQ@lib.lgbtEnglish
      292·
      1 year ago

      Same ! I live in india , but seems like i am wayyy to updated with us political news !ugh

      • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
        81·
        1 year ago

        To be fair, I am Lithuanian and a lot of stuff online goes like અને પછી તેઓ કેટલીક અસ્પષ્ટ ભાષા બોલવાનું શરૂ કરે છે

      • Gsus4@feddit.nl
        6·
        1 year ago

        Well, since we’re here, what are the big news where you live these days?

    • Gsus4@feddit.nl
      8·
      1 year ago

      I got used to it, you just need to look at the US as a union of states like Europe, in which case Arkansas is about equivalent to Lithuania in population (although if you correct for the more states and less pop of the US you get Bulgaria or Finland if you use a ranked method) . The same could be done for China, India and Brazil.

        • Gsus4@feddit.nl
          101·
          1 year ago

          Alright, polandball time: I’ll ask around the EU++ who wants to play Arkansas in the school play…if nobody takes it, I’m giving it to Hungary :D because they’re being a dick lately. So, which state do you want? I hear Idaho’s nice :) Germany already took California, France took New York, Italy took Texas, Spain took Florida, the Netherlands took Pennsylvania, Poland took Illinois, Romania got Georgia, Sweden asked for Michigan and Austria asked for Massachusets, Finland got offered Indiana, but picked Arizona, lol etc etc…do you want Wisconsin? Also: UK guest starring as Canada and Turkey as Mexico lol

          • Wahots@pawb.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            Idaho, the mountainous parts, are nice. Some of the people are nice. But in general, Idaho has some of the most batshit insane stuff happening in it in regards to cults and crazy people. It’s been getting crazier in recent years. They were an absolute mess during the pandemic and needed tons of help from other states who then couldn’t look after locals in need.

            • Gsus4@feddit.nl
              1·
              1 year ago

              I was trying to be inclusive, because I’m not american and I don’t want to disparage those places I’ve never been to or know that well…but since you say it…rural states sound like a backwater nightmare :/

      • Ryumast3r@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        Didn’t realize Lithuania was under 3 million. For some reason I had it in my head that they were closer to 4-5. Insane.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      5·
      1 year ago

      A huge part of that is american-centric attitudes though. There is the politics sub on Lemmy.world and it’s only for US politics. But it’s not called “usonlypolitics” it’s called “politics”. Somehow they don’t see the problem with that.

      Also the mods are been absolutely bellends about it and are refusing to even acknowledge that that is a problem.

        • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          Easy to be the world champion in egg handball if you’re the only country that plays that version of egg handball.

  • Potfarmer@lemmy.world
    781·
    1 year ago

    Give us an option to block memes as well then, my biggest issue with Lemmy is the tsunami of terrible and practically unavoidable memes. I don’t ever see sports content, rarely see NSFW content, there is a fair amount of Elon spam, but really the worst are the memes. Even doing my best to hide the meme communities they are unavoidable.

    • Biji99@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      Which instances local have less content on politics or us politics? Beside lemmynsfw of course

    • lichtmetzger@feddit.deEnglish
      46·
      1 year ago

      There is surprisingly less of this on the Fediverse. On Reddit I had a massive blocklist with words like Biden, Trump, DeSantos, AOC etc. and I still wasn’t saved from all of the bullshit over in the land of the free.

      I rarely see all of that crap here and it’s honestly very refreshing.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    611·
    1 year ago

    Is Lemmy just not showing me sports content? I don’t like sports at all and this would bother me if it was constant, but I only see the occasional sports post.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
      222·
      1 year ago

      It was pretty bad for me until I got most of them filtered. There’s a com for every single team, every single league, and more.

      Not quite as prolific as, say, Linux or porn. But there’s a lot of them.

          • get_off_the_phone@sh.itjust.works
            6·
            1 year ago

            Same. If there is a com for every team, why can’t I find the ones for my teams? I get that that my teams probably have few subscribers so they’re not ever likely to show up on ALL. But even when I actively look for em, I can’t find em. I’m still new to this platform so I have much to learn.

          • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            22·
            1 year ago

            Which sports in particular are you looking for? Most of the popular sports and teams have fledgling communities

        • glimse@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Are you browsing Hot? I use Top 12H

          They didn’t annoy me that much but I saw a lot of them and was being proactive about cleaning up my feed. On reddit, anime was BY FAR my most blocked type of sub but with sports in second. On here it’s sports > porn > memes

      • Throwaway@lemm.ee
        24·
        1 year ago

        Yeah. I think some get ahead of themselves, lemmy isn’t big enough enough to support the splintering.

    • outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Same — I don’t recall a single sports-related post — not even a meme. Maybe my instance already defederated from all the home servers of these communities (I think that’s how it works?).

  • UlrikHD@programming.dev
    43·
    1 year ago

    It would be nice if every community had to pick a tag associated with it so that you can automatically filter out communities you have no interest in. E.g. Politics, news, memes, sports, tech, celebrities, TV/Movies, etc…

  • zikk_transport2@lemmy.world
    38·
    1 year ago

    I really wish there could be tags and sub-tags.

    Tag examples:

    • Politics
    • Sport
    • Anime
    • News
    • AI

    Sub-tag examples:

    • US
    • Europe
    • Africa
    • Basketball
    • Volleyball
    • F1

    Some sort of curated list by Lemmy developers that might change over time depending on user demand.

    Then client apps can fetch such list from any server and allow you to apply such filter.

    Imagine being able to block whole category of sports? Anime? News? Whatever people want/don’t want.

        • zikk_transport2@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yup, developers.

          Instance admins adding such tags would make it inconsistent and basically impossible to use. It should be unified = implemented by Lemmy developers.

          P.S. Developers who develop Lemmy software. Admins who own and manage instance (website/server).

    • guts@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      I think this is the only good thing Tildes has with tags, tags can work as sub-comunities inside a sublemmy.

  • viking@infosec.pub
    362·
    1 year ago

    I’d love a fediverse-wide tagging system for various kinds of NSFW (porn, gore, death…), Sports (ideally also by discipline), Anime, Music (again, with genres), Gaming etc. to hand-pick what I absolutely don’t want to see.

    • _TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
      10·
      1 year ago

      On some Mastodon clients you can block hashtags, and on Lemmy you can block communities, so we’re already pretty close. To do more would require a lot of self-tagging of posts and not everyone will do that. Or it would require analytics and automatic tagging that may not be accurate and would theoretically be a privacy nightmare.

      • Orphie Baby@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        I can never rely on people to self-tag posts. But tagging communities would be much more manageable and helpful.

      • oyenyaaow@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Do it like AO3 and enforce only about a dozen mandatory tags, and allow ‘choose not to tag’ tag if you don’t want to tag, and you can choose to filter out the choose not to tag content…

      • MBM@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        Maybe communities should come with default tags. That would make it a lot easier.

  • Gsus4@feddit.nl
    341·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think I’ve seen a single post about sports in Lemmy. Ever. Same with mastodon.

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
      8·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think the group of people interested in sports and the group of tech savvy that use the fediverse overlap that much!

    • Flat Pluto Society@lemmy.world
      71·
      1 year ago

      This is actually my biggest complaint about fedi services. I really love the baseball communities on Reddit (not on Twitter, though, that shit is toxic and often very homophobic), and there’s just not a substitute elsewhere. I would love for baseball Lemmy to take off.

      • RockyBass@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        Just a general reminder for folks to generate content. Don’t worry if it doesn’t get a lot of attention yet, the fact that it’s there will bring people in.

    • Tedrick02@lemmy.today
      12·
      1 year ago

      I have yet to see active sports talk or news. But I’m also still figuring out this whole place.

      • TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world
        102·
        1 year ago

        Not going to happen anytime soon. Lemmy seems to have mostly drawn in early tech adopters, communists, Europeans who hate cars, and not-quite-pedophiles-but-close-enough-that-it-makes-me-concerned types.

        I have yet to find any decent sports discussion here or anywhere in the fediverse.

  • TeddE@lemmy.world
    311·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, I say we ditch NSFW as a on/off switch and go with a mandatory tagging system. We can clarify NSFW into content warning tags, e.g. CW - Gore, CW - Death, CW - Breast, CW - Genitalia.

    Users could then set their own preferences on which tags would cause a post to be masked or simply hidden.

    But why stop there? Tags could be very useful in our federated environment to help communities mesh better with each other.

    Communities could be able to specify a list of mandatory tags, i.e. the Swallow community could require posts specify African Swallow or European Swallow (or both or neither). Communities could also make some tags implied, so the AfricanSwallow community might just imply that posts are Africian Swallow unless user changes it.

    Underneath the hood, all tags are just treated as part of the post text, so the backend performance impact will be minimal. However moderation tools would be able to consider tags when deciding how to handle a post.

    Of course, the server/instance owner can then simply make a policy of what kinds of content warnings they require, and communities can then build other tags on that to meet their community needs.

  • TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world
    291·
    1 year ago

    Since you’ve apparently seen so many, I would love for you to link me to a sports community that is actually active. Everything out there is completely dead, usually with one person reposting content from reddit or Twitter.