Temporary rule added: no US politics - eviltoast

Until the rule is removed, any new posts about US politics will be removed.

  • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    This however is the main problem of social media in general. It creates circles of like-minded people where it is really easy to reject “other” thoughts and accept “our” ideas without much questioning. This is less a problem for people who are trained in critical thinking, but might be dangerous for more unstable people.

    I’m just saying that a mix of different views is always good to some degree. Whether/how this should be done on Lemmy is a different thing.

    • Karmmah@lemmy.world
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      Absolutely. If this rule was a permanent rule I don’t think so many people would defend it. However from experience (reddit for example) I think many people know that US politics has the ability to claim and overrun just about every space on the “western” internet. This is not something that really creates value for many people especially those that don’t live in the US and I think this ruling is trying to prevent that.