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Thought experiment: Is it possible to ban posts across all feds about trump, elon and similar topics for a week? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Quadhammer@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Not only would I like to not hear about any of the assholes or shitty crap going on for a week, id like to not talk about them either. Is it even possible?

Not for like censorship reasons but for more mental health and logic reasons. Do people's moods improve? Is more interesting and funny content generated? Does the media/news algorthym absolutely shit itself?

Yes yes I'm sure you can filter out what you don't want to see personally and what not blah blah blah, but I mean for us. All of us. Maybe we just need to ignore the fuccbois for a bit. Imagine a world without them

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Its unhealthy to ignore and hide away from problems of the world.

If you want to avoid that sort of content, either setup keyword / instance blocks to control what you see, or go offline entirely for some time.

To follow your suggestion though - theres no one person/team that controls the fediverse. To get, for example, all trump posts banned across all the fediverse you would need agreement from all instance admins to agree to it, and enforce it

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Its unhealthy to ignore and hide away from problems of the world.

I'd argue it's unhealthy to obsess over the same topics every day/week/month/year but okay a week off from it is "unhealthy?" Nah.

To get, for example, all trump posts banned across all the fediverse you would need agreement from all instance admins to agree to it, and enforce it

Yeah I kinda figured. Could the whole fediverse ignore man babies for a week? I bet no, but I'd love to be surprised

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

There is a huge range between “entirely ignore” and “obsess over”. Vastly more nuance you are just ignoring.

[–] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I’d argue it’s unhealthy to obsess over the same topics every day/week/month/year but okay a week off from it is “unhealthy?” Nah.

So don't obsess about them and/or take a week off if you need to.

But why should your personal issue with some topics affect everyone else?

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

I mean my whole feed was nothing but Trump and Elon when I made the post. So universally disliked but getting so much attention to encourage the behavior

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd argue it's unhealthy to obsess over the same topics every day/week/month/year

Then stop obsessing over them.

And stop projecting your obsession onto the entire fediverse.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Motherfucker my whole feed had Trump biden and Elon every other post

[–] amio@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

Its unhealthy to ignore and hide away from problems of the world.

Got a source for that?