cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/52676208
What do you think of an option to ban politics from the feed on account registration like this:
Effectively, when you click "no politics", it should block the !news@lemmy.world, !politics@lemmy.world, !politicalmemes@lemmy.world, !pravda_news@news.abolish.capital communities and such for the newly registered user.
It would help clear up the feed and be more attractive to new users. Maybe this could even be the default view when you're not logged in.
I mean.. with the shit piefed already has it's not impossible that will happen.
I was looking at the code an hour ago, and... I saw some "reply_is_stupid" function, and it wouldn't add the comment if that was true. Considering it's made because of the "tankies," the amount of ""authoritarianism"" in it is surprising. Lemmy doesn't just drop your comment if it doesn't like it.
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They previously had code which would replace 'þ' with 'th' because of a single lemmy user. Only removed it after getting called out. The developers are incredibly petty.
Is there even a reason they wanted that/used it.?
I think it was just a futile effort to poison AI scrapers.