The day started off in a mad rush but had settled down hopefully. With any luck this week will fly as fast as last week did.
Is the politics tag still in use? I have it muted but have noticed a big uptick in the amount of political articles the last week or so. To be expected at this point in an election year I guess…
Yeah the !politics@lemmy.nz community is still being used, but there are definitely more politics posts leaking into !newzealand.
Happy to hear thoughts from anyone as to whether this is ok and expected around an election, or if we should push harder towards keeping news about political parties in !politics, or something else?
@Dave @sortofblue I'm personally not a fan of splitting small communities.
If mixing content types makes moderation too hard, then I would say that the above post belongs in the "politics" section of a newspaper so yeah.
The idea is that politics is something that there are enough people interested in it to support it’s own community, and enough people who do not want to see it to justify separating it.
Lemmy does not have tags for filtering like reddit, so people who want to filter out politics basically have no choice. In the early days, there were many people vocal about not wanting to see politics, hence why it got it’s own community.
If it’s too complicated I’m not bothered, I just found it quite nice to be able to avoid it before the election campaigning kicked into high gear.
I’m personally for separating politics into it’s own community, but am I the only one that use “Local” to see all the lemmy.nz communities posts?
I switch between local, subscribed and all depending on what I want to see.
You’re not the only one, but lemmy.nz has 750 users, while !newzealand@lemmy.nz has 1,300 subscribers. There are many users on other instances participating here that can’t see our local feed.
oops didn’t think about that!
That’s what I’ve been doing as well. Is that not a good idea?
No nothing wrong. I just didn’t consider others might not have their main account on lemmy.nz, so wouldnt get the same local view