Yeah, sometimes on the old place, you woukd seeposts removed for being political, on like, a news sub.

Like WTF, basically all polotocs literally is news, though not all news is political.

It probably shouldn't be allowed in the future, but given that it has > 300 up-votes and is only now spurring a finer definition of the rule, I think it warrants an exception. If OP reads this, they now know to post this kinda thing in a different community in the future. But removing this particular post seems a little harsh.

Edit: This is an awesome approach to moderation btw. People like you make lemmy great, thank you!

Do whatever, ruleslawyering is not helpful. Is the community enjoying it? It stays. Is it detrimental? It gets removed. The "rules" should be more like guidelines to suggest to posters what type of content the intent of the community is, not what type of content is permissible.

Is someone posting vaguely in the direction of the intent of the community? That would be good enough for me.

Anyone trying to separate posts into increasingly niche communities (like the asinine dontdeadopeninside and nosafetysmokingfirst split on reddit) is not helping the community of posters and lurkers.

I don’t tend to think of wpt as specifically twitter posts. Maybe that’s how it started, but over time it has become a more generalized “screenshots of short text posts” type of thing in my mind. The “or similar” in the rules leaves a lot of ambiguity, but in my mind Twitter was always about short text posts, so any short text posts would fall under that “similar” umbrella. I wouldn’t object to seeing something from Facebook, Instagram, or Reddit being posted here as long as it was a text post and not super long, so it feels disingenuous to complain about a Lemmy post being here.

We need to keep the cycle going. Remove the post, so that OP can make their own fuck this I'm done post.

It should be in YPTB, but they’ll just use that as more proof of their “outrage”.

People like this need to accept and understand that we don't want to talk about US politics everywhere, all the time.

the original was twitter

As in, the post was originally on Twitter? I'm not sure what this means

I don't see the original. All I see are Lemmy related images and that, to me, doesn't belong here.

Fighting to remove as many posts as possible on Lemmy when we barely get any posts at all doesn't make sense; ignore the people requesting you take a popular post down for some potential technicality.

I post in a lot of animal communities, and while I cannot speak for others, I do not knowingly upload AI. I even started checking with AI detectors, which is not something I’ve had to do even a year ago.

I think the rest of Lemmy (at least the core users) are very anti-AI and, like me, might only upload it by accident. So I assume good intent until proven otherwise.

What makes me feel better about Lemmy is knowing that no one is making money off of me. Even if I do end up falling for some AI - there are no influencers making a buck off it unlike on IG and FB and TikTok.

Amen!!

Which is to say that some of us would just like to have a space to NOT talk or think about politics, including US politics.

Inb4: "You're just privileged enough not to have to think about it."

No, I just want a brief goddamn respite every once in a while, everybody deserves that. Just because I want to be able to escape into a fantasy world sometimes doesn't mean that I never talk about politics either, it's like cheating on your diet, just let me have a fucking cookie every now and again ffs!

I know more about US politics than my own country’s politics, which is a problem because it’s an election year and the Nazis need to get out of parliament.

I need to get into the details of things so I can do my civic duty, but I’m fucking exhausted from all the American politics that for my own sanity I just don’t want to.

This is just as important for me, it's a terrible fit for the Comm.

Yeah, so when I go to shitpost and people start taking the posts seriously, I try to say hey folks, look where you are, this isn't a serious community, let's keep the shit light.

And so yeah, when folks shoehorn political agendas into literally any community they can, I'll point out how it's got nothing to do with the community, and how it's frustrating, because it does not further the community, it just furthers that person's (or bot's) agenda.

On a side note, welcome.

If you haven't figured this out already and your front page feels stale, then switch around to "Hot," "Top 6 Hours" or "Active." Active is the default and feels stale on topics.

I have the complete opposite experience, I almost cannot escape it here. My reddit infinite scroll was way more diverse, here it's exclusively american politics and linux, and if it wasn't for linux I would quit this whole platform

Is that a baby sloth?

I'm not the sort that gushes all the time about baby animals, but that is like the cutest little thing ever. I want to squish it and pet it.

Brb gonna post this in a political community, because community rules don't matter the other way so I should be good, right?

I guess you have to make a mastodon post of your thought, then screenshot it to /c/political_memes

I'd be interested in seeing a politicaldiscussions community that would allow for that. I just don't have the time or energy to mod something like that or create and maintain a set of rules that would keep the discussions fair. I'd be hard pressed to find a way to prevent brigading and encourage positive discourse, even where I disagree.

edit: Sorry, can't just export that list as clickable links. App is Voyager.

Still, though - c/showerthoughts?

Like, in all seriousness, I don't think lack of ability to flood a Lemmy community, least of all the one in question, is going to have any effect on the matter. Like, at all.

If literal hell on earth was happening, and I was spending most of my real world time dealing with it, and there was nowhere I could go to escape from it and people exclusively talked about it all of the time, I would kill myself. We are allowed to stop talking about it sometimes.

We're not the ones commiting the horrors of the world, nor are we the ones able to stop them. It's not our job, duty or obligation to be confronted by them at all times, in all aspects of our lives.

Using it as an analogy, how does going to a bunch of kids who can barely take care of themselves and asking them to save the world actually help?

The people on fediverse already know about the horrors, most are against the horrors and are trying to help. They don't need more requests or more prodding with a stick. They need more thanks for standing up instead, if anything.

The target audience is the wide world beyond this place. The ones that can help but don't. The ones in charge or the ones putting them in charge.

A successful social interaction requires selecting the right audience and the correct circumstances. And a lot of the communities here ain't either.

There was a while there where I was really into wholesome memes. People really don’t get what wholesome is. I started getting legitimately upset at what people thought was appropriate there so I had to block the communities.

I would make c/politicalshitposts but I am not responsible enough to be in charge of anything other then a Crack pipe and a liquor bottle.

FYI, c/leoopardsatemyface is an OG political community.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/leopards-eating-peoples-faces-party

You know what's crazy? Proper use of alt-text would save you from this.

As much as I hate seeing the copy-paste block of text on why alt-text should be included with image posts... I can't help but admit that alt-text paves the way for better post filtering and overall information preservation.

So the bottom image is showing a comment on a post titled "Fuck Lemmy, i'm done" which I believe contained the top image. im assuming it was posted by the person that received the mod removal message in top image. the second image is mostly focusing on a comment from that post thread from another Lemmy user that disagrees with the OP's take.

I struggle with words sometimes - idk if I made that more confusing lol.

It was taken with voyager, that's how voyager app takes photo of comment + post l.

I'm in the same position and I agree.