This is ridiculous fear-mongering, u/Graphenium is being intentionally misleading.
It's always been the policy for politics to be opt-in, when browsing via communities.win. In fact, until two weeks ago, none of the sites with their own domains were included on the front page at all.
Two weeks ago, we added the three "topics" of Politics, NSFW, and Other for the front page. By default, users have the Politics topic disabled.
This was the first time any of the sites with standalone domains were featured on the front page, and we were clear that politically focused communities would be tagged as political communities.
Anything that one could reasonable argue is politics should be tagged as politics based on our current plan.
Let's look at the top 10 posts here currently.
vaccine
vaccine
Biden
you
vaccine
election
not sure, some video
vaccine
not political
covid
It's not a bad thing that this community is political. I love this community. I think it's hard to argue that it shouldn't be tagged as politics, though.
This is ridiculous fear-mongering, u/Graphenium is being intentionally misleading.
It's always been the policy for politics to be opt-in, when browsing via communities.win. In fact, until two weeks ago, none of the sites with their own domains were included on the front page at all.
Two weeks ago, we added the three "topics" of Politics, NSFW, and Other for the front page. By default, users have the Politics topic disabled.
This was the first time any of the sites with standalone domains were featured on the front page, and we were clear that politically focused communities would be tagged as political communities.
https://communities.win/c/Changelogs/p/12hl5DX8m9/x/c/4DyNWLbyhHQ
This policy has not been at all swayed by any users, we have remained consistent on it.
Politics is opt-in.
How is this sub “politics”
Anything that one could reasonable argue is politics should be tagged as politics based on our current plan.
Let's look at the top 10 posts here currently.
It's not a bad thing that this community is political. I love this community. I think it's hard to argue that it shouldn't be tagged as politics, though.
What the fuck? Vaccines are “politics” now? ...Or do you just not want “anti-vaxx science denialism” on the front page?
COVID and the vaccine have obviously been politicised.
We're going to be prioritising the home feed so that users can customise their experience.