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For a short time I was a part of a small site that banned politics. It was fine, people talked about work, personal stuff, travel, until one person posted abou

by duxup 8mo ago

For a short time I was a part of a small site that banned politics. It was fine, people talked about work, personal stuff, travel, until one person posted about their disappointment that their state was limiting various services or rights to gay people. For them this meant their rights were in question and they were understandably upset. Immediately some folks cried politics and that they shouldn’t post about that sort of thing. To the user posting it it was about their life… I don’t think “no politics” rules really make much sense. For someone it’s more than politics, and IMO because a topic is touched by politicians or government shouldn’t make it disallowed.

busymom0 7mo ago
I had an idea a while back where one could have a balance where the site by default doesn't show politics and also doesn't show it to logged out users. One needs to sign up, then switch on a setting to see politics. Users can be required to mark posts as politics, similar to nsfw, nsfl and users can report posts which aren't marked correctly.
- duxup 7mo ago
  That's not the worst idea. Honestly, I'm at the point where I'd pay money for an active social media site that varied humans as real people, required them to use their name, and so on. User could pick their own post visibility, who can participate in comments, pick your own feed, etc. Social media on the surface is neat, it's just all the other big company, advertising, and frankly human failures that make it suck :(
array_key_first 7mo ago
Right, and politics is a constant moving target. Being gay is not inherently political, its been made political by the right. That's just what it is. As time goes on, more and more stuff is political, because politicians stick their grubby little hands in everything. What you drink is political, what you eat is political, who you fuck is political. It's exhausting for anyone even slightly outside the status-quo.

by duxup 8mo ago

busymom0 7mo ago

I had an idea a while back where one could have a balance where the site by default doesn't show politics and also doesn't show it to logged out users. One needs to sign up, then switch on a setting to see politics. Users can be required to mark posts as politics, similar to nsfw, nsfl and users can report posts which aren't marked correctly.

duxup 7mo ago
That's not the worst idea. Honestly, I'm at the point where I'd pay money for an active social media site that varied humans as real people, required them to use their name, and so on. User could pick their own post visibility, who can participate in comments, pick your own feed, etc. Social media on the surface is neat, it's just all the other big company, advertising, and frankly human failures that make it suck :(

array_key_first 7mo ago

Right, and politics is a constant moving target. Being gay is not inherently political, its been made political by the right. That's just what it is. As time goes on, more and more stuff is political, because politicians stick their grubby little hands in everything. What you drink is political, what you eat is political, who you fuck is political. It's exhausting for anyone even slightly outside the status-quo.