No politics means to not speak to anyone. Anything can be construed as political speech.

I just wish people weren't so aggressive with politics.

I've noticed a severe lack of perspective and empathy in these communities which has greatly deterred me from engaging.

Reddit was bad as well, but it seemed to attract a more rounded and informed community at least in the early days. Probably a function of fragmentation more than anything.

Maybe you should start a No Politics campaign. Have some debates over the issue. Raise it with your leaders. Find out the impacts of the new policy. Get all of Lemmy to have a vote on it.

Or you can just block/ignore the stuff you don't like. No need to force your preferences on everyone else.

Fair enough. While you’re at it, add a no anime day and a no Linux day as well. Or are we only removing things you don’t like?

I'd love to see more users / activity in the non-political niche and hobby communities. That's my holiday wish.

Sure, or you could go outside and play on some days.

It's hard not to find this kind of logic and desire to be naive and somewhat childish. I really do think it comes from a desire to go back to a time when you're a child and you don't have to worry about things.

my struggle with stuff like this is that, because i am lgbt, my existence is considered "political".

This is already possible, on any day of the week you desire, without affecting anybody else’s preferences. I assume you’ve subscribed to certain communities that you enjoy. If so, you simply switch your view to the Subscribed feeds. You can switch back anytime you want to All. As a bonus, you could even limit yourself to viewing only the communities on your instance by using Local.

I know that comes off a little snarky, but I don’t know what you do or don’t know, so I’m going with the assumption you don’t know. Otherwise, as others have suggested, you can block communities and instances, and also add keywords to filter out specific topics.

Edit: looks like it’s a feature request for the webui. I know Mlem has a keyword filter.

Usually this just means "no politics I disagree with."

The problems is what constitutes as politics is very different to different people. Is a gay man posting about his relationship with his husband political?

"Missing the point"

From my POV, you're the one who's missing the point.

First we will form a committee that monitors and tracks posts for subject matter that may be political. There will be extensive lists of what is acceptable and what isn't, topics that will be debated at length every week.

Then, roughly two months into NoPo days, a tampon v pad debate between a childfree estate lawyer and a closeted scentsy sales rep with a breeder fetish will spill over into other instances, inflaming users to pick sides. Both women will become icons on their respective feminine hygiene products until they are both viciously doxed and swatted by opposing communities.

One week after, NoPo days will ban any words related to period protection and thus incite a backlash from lemmy feminists and allied persons.

The committee will be fediversally disbanded only ten weeks into NoPo days and it's members will be forced to make alt accounts in dishonor.

That's what filters are for.

Good luck getting a tankie to shut the fuck up, sadly politics (or a tenuous grasp of) is all they know.

Poor little cretins.

Block Lemmy world politics and news subs and it will clear your feed.

It is way easier thing to do over expecting a bunch of people doing something together lol

Yes! We should elect officials from each community. Then have them get votes from their community and then we can get all the community heads together and decide what day it is. As long as it's not at the start or end of the week. I think people who want that have bad genes and should get deported back to Reddit, and make Reddit pay for it.

Edit. Yikes. Way too many people taking this too seriously

People should take it seriously when anyone suggests curtailing their political speech. In this case it’s to create a little feel-good bubble for yourself, which is hardly a worthy justification. So yeah.