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I had an idea a while back where one could have a balance where the site by default doesn't show politics and also doesn't show it to logged out users. One needs to sign up, then switch on a setting to see politics. Users can be required to mark posts as politics, similar to nsfw, nsfl and users can report posts which aren't marked correctly.


That's not the worst idea. Honestly, I'm at the point where I'd pay money for an active social media site that varied humans as real people, required them to use their name, and so on.

User could pick their own post visibility, who can participate in comments, pick your own feed, etc.

Social media on the surface is neat, it's just all the other big company, advertising, and frankly human failures that make it suck :(




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