Is there a Reddit alternative that bans political posts and comments?
Posted by grayhaze2000@reddit | RedditAlternatives | View on Reddit | 38 comments
As someone who lives outside the US and has no interest in the tribal battle between the US political parties, I'm becoming really fed up of the sheer quantity of political posts on here. It's not as simple as blocking particular subs, as politics seems to bleed into pretty much every sub after a while. Are there any alternatives with a decent population which outright ban political discussion, and which aren't run by political zealots?
qwerty30013@reddit
The presidential election is in like 2 months of course you’re seeing a lot. After the election you’ll see less
charlyquestion@reddit
Jan 2025 and political US posts are everywhere
bob_jody@reddit
I think they're aware of that lol
grayhaze2000@reddit (OP)
If only that were true.
EternalVictory01@reddit
We have become an increasingly divided society both inside and outside the United States
Most western nations are battling cultural ideas from the extreme voices of those ideas. It is sad to let politics and these cultural ideas divide us and define us such as we have seen in recent years.
I was one of the worst offenders of this until a freak accident resulted in injuries I would sustain that required three surgeries and nearly 10 days in the hospital!
Prior to this experience I was a hardcore conservative who felt that liberals were stupid, “less than” lifeforms who were destroying our country!
While I still am conservative in my lifestyle and views, I shared my hospital room with four different men during my admission…all of whom had different religious and/or political beliefs than I have.
Our forced time spent together was transformational in my life! As we each got to know one another, we were bound together by a common goal of recovering from our illness and injury to return to our homes and families.
Though we had different opinions and experiences, we were still able to share with one another due to what to me could only be the love of God!
These people no longer were limited by my mind a being liberal or conservative, gay or straight, Harris or Trump supporters, or any other tribal differentiations…but rather each as an individual man with his own life story to share, his needs as well as what he had to offer me and others. Our differences seemed to vanish in a miraculous way as God opened our hearts and minds to being open to love and respect for one another.
This was nothing less than a supernatural experience that has transformed my option of and love for others…even those I have different opinions with! I have been transformed into a man who is no longer gripped by political loyalty or consumed with worry about “what happens if the other side wins”!
God has shown me His great love for each of us and assured me that nothing that is to come will be an unimaginable disaster to Him but rather that all things are coming together exactly as He has ordained them to!
I’m not trying to say anyone needs to examine their spiritual life - that is a personal decision for every one of us! I am simply sharing a very recent experience that has transformed me and provided me with a renewed love for others and a peace about whatever is to come politically.
Due to this I am able to live now with my own spiritual and political views but completely freed of the stress, division and hostility that we have allowed ourselves to be overcome by!
This political divide is very deep and it seems incomprehensible how it ca ever be repaired, but as God has just made manifest in my life, ALL THINS are possible with God!
I hope and pray for all of us that we can each find the love, peace and acceptance of one another that He has revealed to me! I can not begin to tell you what a relief it has been to me!!!
FanClubs_org@reddit
I feel you on that and there will be some iteration of this rule on Fan Clubs when I finish the site redesign. For now, it's a very-generic set of rules.
matbonucci@reddit
European here and US politics were driving me insane. I use the Freaky Blinder extension on Firefox and has been great, though haven't found a way to do that on my mobile
CandyMammoth9446@reddit
Aw man, thank you a thousand times.
phluckrPoliticsModz@reddit
If you're using Android, you can use the IceRaven browser - it's Firefox, but allows most of the desktop extensions. You can get it directly from GitHub. Then you can download the extension from it's page, open it in IceRaven whereupon it will offer to install it.
matbonucci@reddit
The addon is greyed out trying to install manually but I made a github request
phluckrPoliticsModz@reddit
In fact, here's the download link.
matbonucci@reddit
Iceraven doesn't come up as an option opening the .xpi
phluckrPoliticsModz@reddit
Odd, did for me. Try Menu->Extensions->Extensions Manager, click the icon that looks like a puzzle piece, browse to where you have the .xpi file downloaded to, and open it.
matbonucci@reddit
That's what I did in my previous comment. Thank you
phluckrPoliticsModz@reddit
So you've got it working, then?
matbonucci@reddit
No, xpi is greyed out from iceraven manual install
phluckrPoliticsModz@reddit
I doubt there's a difference, but technically I didn't install IceRaven from the GitHub page. I used the FFUpdater app from F-Droid, which allows you to install a bunch of different browsers & it keeps them up to date. Might be another path to try, but I'd honestly be surprised if there's a difference.
matbonucci@reddit
Managed to install it! Instead of using my Samsung file manager I chose my cloud storage app and used the uploaded .xpi
phluckrPoliticsModz@reddit
Oh, just a reminder to close that request you made to allow the extension. Save the devs some time figuring out what's not working for you.
phluckrPoliticsModz@reddit
Ah, so Samsung's security prevented it, maybe. Cool! Glad you got it to work because I was staying to wonder if my security was too lax somehow. I've hit walls with Samsung's security before, but it's been a while since I had one & forgot about it.
phluckrPoliticsModz@reddit
Honestly not sure what to tell you, except maybe play around with your security settings? I've tested both on my Android 11 OnePlus 7 Pro, and my Android 14 Pixel 7 Pro, and both allowed opening it.
phluckrPoliticsModz@reddit
When I went there (using a different browser - Firefox Focus - so maybe that's the trick) there was a download link just below the deactivated install button
DividendLifeTX@reddit
Hell yeah. That's awesome. I need to get that.
grayhaze2000@reddit (OP)
This is excellent. Thank you so much for this, as it does exactly what I wanted. Now I just need to work out a way to get rid of the memes.
grayhaze2000@reddit (OP)
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check that one out.
HotTakeHoulihan@reddit
Being able (that is, in a comfortable and unthreatened position) to not care about politics it is a luxury that only a small percentage of people have, even on today's internet.
I don't think it's possible to have a large-scale platform that will avoid it. The best you likely can do is have the equivalent of a subreddit, or just a forum, that bans politics or at least allows for filtering, both for people who are or claim to dislike the subject, and for those who are filtering it for their own mental health.
round-earth-theory@reddit
The issue is what topics someone will claim are politics. Is talking about bicycles a political issue because they want more bike lanes? Is a gun collector showing off their suppressor a political issue? Is a trans support group political by nature of existence?
There's no one filter that will rule out "politics". All you can do is tune out things you don't want to hear about personally.
HotTakeHoulihan@reddit
I was being gentle with OP, but yeah.
There are two genders: Male and political.
There are two sexual orientations: Straight and political.
Christian and political
White and political
Able-bodied and political
Neurotypical and
Financially comfortable
Cis
etc. etc. etc.
The only people who can afford to ignore politics are the ones who are not and don't care about anyone who is "political".
If I broke my folder of "political" bookmarks into subfolders, there'd be more than twenty subfolders, ranging from school shootings to suppression of mass transit to historical revisionism and censorship to climate change direct action groups to...
But I have to acknowledge that sometimes it's hard to keep wanting to embrace life if you've got too much partisan agitation in your feed. And so I filter many political tags and only expand them if I'm feeling up to it. And sometimes I turn off the internet for a few days and just take a bath with a book and if the book has political relevance (and they all do) at least it's a bit disguised. And so am I 'disguised', because wine.
Even if some people filter out politics because they don't like confronting "are we the baddies?" some others are just trying to get enough of a break they can catch their breath and appreciate a warm dawn without worrying about the fact that it's unseasonable.
UnflinchingSugartits@reddit
Mainchan has a toggle option to hide all politics
BlazeAlt@reddit
Block those subs, be it here or on alternatives (Tildes, Lemm.ee)
grayhaze2000@reddit (OP)
As I said, politics posts are bleeding into non-politics subs. If I block every sub that has these posts, I'll end up with very few left.
round-earth-theory@reddit
Politics is a hot topic right now. What do you expect? If it's bothering you that much, just block it all and accept the lower engagement. You can try unblocking after the election as things will likely be reduced but maybe not.
BlazeAlt@reddit
Then that's an issue on the mods.
I feel like quite a few of them left since last year, and the ones who are still around do not bother enough to actually keep the mods politics-free (could be even Reddit pushing for it as it increases engagement I guess)
UnflinchingSugartits@reddit
Mainchan.com has a toggle option to hide ALL political content. The android app needs a few more testers. You can even post anonymously if u want.
Mainchan Android - App
serpentofnumbers@reddit
As another user stated, I think you'll have to seek out individual interest forums. Even then, political comments might not be banned per se, but you're much less likely to see them when the forum is not open to traffic from other interest groups.
barrygateaux@reddit
Trouble is the English speaking internet has a large number of Americans.
If you use English online you either have to join a forum or site specific to your interest or country to avoid it whenever they have an election.
Dukkani@reddit
Politics is a way of life.
MaleficentFig7578@reddit
The problem you run into is that everything is politics in one way or another.