Yes, that's correct. While I dont use Twitter or Facebook, I don't subscribe to every community on Lemmy, and in the communities i do subscribe to, I don't open every post -- least of all the ones i actively don't want to see the content of. It's very easy to simply not read the things I have no interest in seeing, and if I do happen across a discussion I'm uninterested in, I realize ky mistake and close it.

This really isn't rocket science, dude. Have some personal responsibility for your media diet and stop worrying about everyone else's behavior. It's a far less stressful way to live.

Yes, of course most people have things they dont want to read a post about. The way they accomplish that is by not clicking links to discussions they have no interest in. Maybe we should consider that an option instead of one population exerting control over what another population occupying the same space can say in such a broad way?

Counterpoint:

In my experience, the only people concerned with "keeping politics out" of a space are people who don't belong to politicized groups or hold politicized identities (thus affording them the comfort to not pay attention to politics or discuss it), and the majority of the time it's because they themselves hold "political opinions" that would get their nose broken if they said them without a keyboard to hide behind. I'm not super comfortable with capitulating to that crowd, especially when the rules would more often punish people talking about their experiences than aren't the cisheteronormative default.

Overly harsh? Maybe. But if I'm trapped in this political moment, I want to be able to discuss what that means for personal life, and that includes how personal politics can interact with sex ajd relationships.