@Jofish5000 @inkstainedmags @JonChevreau

I disagree, and the analogy doesn't work. Politics are both unavoidable, and the action of burying one's head should be active on the part of the one who wants to be buried. People should not have to tiptoe around issues that impact their daily lives for the sake of someone else's *being tired of thinking about it*. This is not a trauma trigger we're talking about.

If you don't want to read something someone has to say, you can just... Not. Most political topics are obvious at the skim of a few lines, the mute option is *right there*, and so is your ability to scroll.

Moreover, the Fediverse is not someone else's home that new folks are just inviting themselves into. These are servers set up specifically for public access and participation. If the point was actually to have spaces with limited topics of discussion of mutual interest, or where strict social protocols existed when discussing anything more complex than pablum, then a) the software wouldn't be open source, and b) the network would be opt in, not opt out.

You can have your politics free enclave, if you want. Just spin up your own instance, and work with a whitelist.

Moreover, your *home timeline* is not your home. It's your own personal list of content from speakers who you have curated. If you don't like what some of them are saying, just remove them from your list, and further curate which topics or keywords you want to mask.

You have that power. The responsibility is yours.