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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldNSFW Tag for drug use?
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    8 days ago

    Most people who need insulin administer it very differently from people injecting heroin, for example. I am sorry for people that do need insulin injections, but I don’t really want to see that without any warning on my frontpage.

    Diabetics I have known that do require insulin injections also usually have a device that covers the needle similar to what an epipen looks like. The needle itself is not actually very visible, and the injection site is often clean and not swiss cheese.

    Basically, I don’t exactly want my frontpage to assault my eyes with heroin addicts posting pictures of themselves shooting up because they think its totally fine to post that since there is no rule requiring that to at least be NSFW tagged.






  • If someone posts one politically charged comment or article, they’re going to do it again. Now, I am not talking about posts asking a question or being some part of a legitimate discussion, I mean users that post articles or comments that are “supporting one side/attacking the other side.” If someone says “Why is Lemmy politically left leaning?”, that is different from “God doesn’t exist but Karl Marx did.” A bit of an extreme example but maybe you understand. The topic involves politics in the first example but it is not directly about politics or trying to push one political ideology over others.

    IMO, it does represent “Lemmy without politics.” Because I don’t want “Lemmy with a little bit of politics” or “Lemmy but a political echo chamber with only politics I agree with,” I want “Lemmy with no politics.” That means I block everything, left, right, progressive, conservative, I don’t care. I don’t want to see that garbage, I have to deal with enough of it in real life. When I am on Lemmy I just want to see my specific interests which I subscribe to, and the sad part is that many (not all) Lemmy users will make political posts in non-political communities, like tech or meme communities. Reddit did this too, but it was not to this degree, and perhaps it was because Reddit had more users to dilute it.


  • I have a very long list of blocked political keywords and yet somehow Lemmy users find a way to make political posts that get around all my filters. It is very frustrating. So now I have started just blocking individual users if they post about politics, because a person that posts about it once is most likely going to do it again.

    Lemmy without politics is kinda a ghost board. There is maybe 3 or 4 new posts a day. For someone who is not so active, its not much of a problem, but compared to Reddit it is highly frustrating that so much Lemmy content is about politics.