Community for asking and answering any question related to the life, the people or anything related to the USA. Non-US people are welcome to provide their perspective! Please keep in mind:
Political discussion can often end up in a shitshow that creates a huge moderation headache. I enjoy not having to worry about doing much moderation, but that's also resulted in a community that's not particularly active.
What are you getting out of this community? Would it be better to allow for overt political discussion?
Yeah, why not. We're all gonna fucking die anyway.
maybe don't allow leading political questions? Like, if you want to know why our healthcare is so bad the answer is conservative politics, but you don't need to ask why conservatives are so bad to get an answer to that.
I mean, what else is there to ask about nowadays?
I'm not active here as I should be, but no. For all the reasons you said, plus politics creeps into everything and I'm sick of hearing about it. It's nice to have "no politics" as a firm rule to immediately shut those down. All people want to post about is political crap, and I've blocked so much as it is.
Honestly, first I've seen this community.
The difficulty of not including politics is that nearly everything is political to some degree nowadays. Even what to see and where to go. E.g. I wouldn't recommend Florida for anyone or any Disney stuff. Frankly, I can't even recommend visiting under the current admin.
However, overt politics depends on your level of moderation willingness. It'd get real old real fast being asked why we're not standing up more. Why things are so shit when our country should be rich. Things that require a history course to fully explain (though you can usually blame Reagan and be at least partly right).
Goddamn celebrities needs privacy...
But I can't stop following them 🤣🤣🤣
Stop it
I'm the one they call "silly goober" 🤪
Only if you want honest conservatives to come here and get dog piled by all the liberal communists.
A shorter way to put what I said, though with different binary thinking than what's normal to most. That's how I see it, at least.
You need short comments to keep the TikTok generation’s interest.
If you were to allow politics like that, I'd be destroying the Jesuit lies (from both sides of the aisle, by the way) by bringing Biblical truth to light. I would not recommend you do that.
Edit: I forgot to mention that I was banned from four lemmy[dot]ml communities as a result of doing exactly as I described, plus non-Biblical sources where applicable. Someone over on that instance has it out for me as a result, because I don't take the Mark of the Beast (revere or obey the Pope).
Which brand of ~~Scotsman~~ Christian are you?
I'm not even classified as mainstream Christian, as I don't practice it anymore. It's too Roman and Lucifarian for me.
Lemmy.ml is famously authoritarian, I dunno how you haven't gotten banned from the entire instance yet, you must have only pissed off a mod rather than admin.
Most other (non-tankie) places across the Threadiverse are pretty chill, just be respectful/polite to people as you argue your salient points and counterpoints and you'll be actively welcomed.
Of course the other side to that is that if you can't or won't stop yourself from causing agitation aka trolling then mods may have to stop you by banning you, choosing to protect their existing members over you - though the level of desired or even allowable level of contention varies greatly depending on the community, which is what this post is about. Just make sure to read the sidebar and you'll easily be able to tell which ones are which. e.g. Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net loves a good fight, though that instance has been defederated from discuss.online so you'd need a different account to participate, perhaps one on hexbear.net itself.
I started checking the sidebar of every instance that isn't discuss.online (the instance I use), and their rules too. If I see any signs of a so-called Code of Conduct, I know there are some issues. I placed that link to a Mastodon post on it, and I hadn't seen what had happened yet.