And specifically where they should be posted… I know it is a tricky area as to what counts as political, but in my view there are some that definitely are that I would prefer to be kept on NZ politics community.
Politics in this country is going to be extremely fraught over the next few months, and I’m not really keen to see these posts in my feed and end up getting into debates I really don’t want to.
Case in point is this one: https://lemmy.nz/post/4053709
People claim it’s OK in the main community because it’s about transport. But the comments are about politics, and it’s clearly a political issue.
If most people here think this is OK for the Aotearoa community, that’s cool with me… but it would be good to have some clearer direction on what the policy is so I can adjust my feed accordingly.
I created that linked post, and it genuinely was a heads up to people who might be commuting that there may be disruption. I hadn’t seen these protests mentioned anywhere and as it was getting late in the evening I thought it best to post to the main community to reach the most people in a timely fashion.
Granted I could have posted without linking or providing details on the protests, but I felt that it was necessary to have some information so people had an idea what sort of disruption they might expect (and so could plan accordingly).
I personally don’t think it’s reasonable to require everything politically adjacent to be exclusively restricted to the politics community. Doing so would limit the usefulness of this instance and it’s ability to provide useful information to users.
OP is being a bit melodramatic, in my view. Everything is political to some extent.
I think this is kinda borderline, it could go in either. If the protests had been about climate change rather than directly organised by a political party, would that have changed your view on where it should have been posted?
In my view, the post is ok in the Aotearoa community as it was intended to inform about protest action and travel disruption. There wasn’t a lot of political discussion in the post (or much discussion at all). But like you I’m happy to go with whatever most people think.
I noticed that the Tesseract frontend (that we have at https://t.lemmy.nz) has keyword filters you can set in the settings. There are probably apps that do it too. So perhaps you can filter out posts that mention the names of the political parties?
screenshot of filters:
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You seriously need to find more important things to be angry about.
