DandomRude@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoThere should be a "US" tag for all Fediverse posts with that topic so that you can easily filter them out. It would make the Fediverse much more productive.message-squaremessage-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down131
arrow-up1121arrow-down1message-squareThere should be a "US" tag for all Fediverse posts with that topic so that you can easily filter them out. It would make the Fediverse much more productive.DandomRude@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square43linkfedilink
minus-squareTrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·3 days agoIt would be up to the creator of the post to tag it, or mods would need to tag every post. I don’t think either of those would work very well.
minus-squareDandomRude@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down9·3 days agoIn large Lemmy communities, there’s a “no politics” rule that’s so broad it’s completely absurd. It would be much easier to simply remove all posts that discuss U.S. politics and don’t have the tag. That would make a lot more sense.
minus-squareZahille7@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·3 days agoGood luck as a decent percentage of users are from all over the world, including the US. That would be like reddit choosing to block all content coming out of the EU; it disenfranchises too many people.
It would be up to the creator of the post to tag it, or mods would need to tag every post. I don’t think either of those would work very well.
In large Lemmy communities, there’s a “no politics” rule that’s so broad it’s completely absurd. It would be much easier to simply remove all posts that discuss U.S. politics and don’t have the tag. That would make a lot more sense.
Good luck as a decent percentage of users are from all over the world, including the US.
That would be like reddit choosing to block all content coming out of the EU; it disenfranchises too many people.