Hey everyone! I’m not quite sure about the name of the community, might need a bit of workshopping there. Feel free to speak up if you have a suggestion for it!
So, about the comm. [email protected] is doing great, but recently it’s been pretty heavy on political stuff. Largely US-centric politics, to boot. There’s no easy way to get just the funnies that I want from there, so here we are! I’ll try to curate and repost the funny stuff I see in my daily activities, but I hope you guys will pitch in with me! Even just commenting will be greatly appreciated!
This is very much a work in progress, so please share any thoughts and feedback you have.
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I think your community idea is very dangerous
On one hand I definitely respect where you are coming from. “Too political” is frequently wielded at the oppressed by oppressors; “two genders, male and political” and all that.
On another hand, as a queer, neurodivergent person of color I don’t handle the constant aggression and “another bad thing happened because of a country’s government, or a political party” posts well. I get paralyzed into inaction. Fediverse “apolitical” communities, at least in my experience, tend to be safe spaces for people like me without bigotry. I’m far from the most oppressed person on earth or even the USA, but I do think I am correct when I say that sometimes, some oppressed people want a break from constantly thinking about and reading about their oppression. If I don’t aggressively curate my feed on the Fediverse and instead take what is hot and popular, it is going to be chock-full of people arguing about politics (specifically in the sense of big actions and policies taken by governments). So I curate, avoid these posts, and find enough energy to take political action in real life instead of scrolling thinkpieces on why this political happening happened for hours online. If there were no spaces free of that specific kind of politics (that yes, also made the political choice of removing bigoted posts and comments), I’d probably eventually just be chased off the internet entirely.
But yet again, this could be my own specific perspective talking and other people do feel silenced and suppressed, so…
I understand why you want to have some space from national content. But, using the word “politics” to describe national content is using the same words our oppressors use to harm us. That legitimises their arguments. Instead of calling it political content, you can call it national content. If you use another word than “political”, the danger is eliminated, and you still get that space you want.
