In the past few weeks the [email protected] community has grown quite a bit. The growth has mostly consisted of news and (geo)political posts, which is understandable.
However, this makes it hard to follow any text threads like these or non-news/political posts. This leaves the only option of either blocking the [email protected] community completely, or having to use a mobile app with keyword filtering (I’m not aware of any on desktop, and keyword filters do not sync between devices yet).
I’d suggest changing/updating the rules of [email protected] to note to users to post their political (and geopolitical?) news threads in [email protected] instead. Alternatively, split geopolitical with (world) news into a separate lemmy.ca (world)news community like with [email protected]? This split community would have a rule that all posts would need to link to a news site or equivalent. Text & image posts would remain at [email protected].
This would make it a lot easier to find text posts, general discussion threads, and image posts without them being drowned out by the news and (geo)political news threads.
One can look to [email protected] and note how that community makes it clear in the rules that politics, (world) news, and geopolitics have to be posted into the Australian politics/(world) news communities. This makes the main Australia community much easier to browse and scroll through without going insane.
It already exists: [email protected] .
It’s just that there is a lot of political news permitted into [email protected]. It can also sometimes be hard to distinguish between notable news. For example, if there is a new Prime Minister, should c/Canada allow it? It does have significant implications for Canada.
Yea. I actually had [email protected] filtered, so I had to unblock it and edit my post.
In [email protected], they have a huge banner at the top of the sidebar telling users “Before you post, if it’s politics or world news, post it in the specific sub-communities at x and y”. It makes a huge difference in how the main Australia community is much less hectic and easier to find discussion and text posts, vs. [email protected].
The sidebar of [email protected] does not have any banner or mention of [email protected], but is instead buried underneath a collapsed menu. This I would think leads to users posting political and geopolitical news in [email protected] instead of [email protected], which the latter is better suited for such posts.
In those instances, I suppose it is fine to post that in the main [email protected] community if it is that major. I’d imagine there would be text/general discussion posts relating to that issue, so such news would be in the main canada community anyways in that format.
I think filtering based on link posts vs. text and image posts would be valuable. Perhaps [email protected] and (world)[email protected] could become communities dedicated to link posts (posts that link to news sites, etc.), and then [email protected] would be text and image posts. (i.e., open ended discussion, etc.). It seems like right now [email protected] currently allows text posts as well, but I suppose that is fine and there isn’t that big of a need to change that.