LucianofSamosata
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I wanted to share political stuff, but if people are following for the Nature moment a day it wouldn't be nice to ruin a peaceful corner of Imgur...
Jul 31, 2025 1:23 PM
LucianofSamosata
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I wanted to share political stuff, but if people are following for the Nature moment a day it wouldn't be nice to ruin a peaceful corner of Imgur...
MyGrrrrrFace
I use the follow function. I enjoy your daily photos, they are great. Even if you started posting some political I would still follow.
nemet
I use it but if there's something I don't want to see I just skip it.
Sechran
I don't know how following interacts with ignored tags, but if it does so gracefully you should be safe to use your main account and not risk driving away those who want nothing to do with politics.
SteveMND
Make a second account for the political stuff.
DireWolf505
Yes, I Follow you, amongst others.
mercyPandaRunner
Somehow yes and then i get annoyed at getting notified whenever butffucker3000 has posted some shit again.
Warandpeas is probably the only one i won't unfollow, for some reason. Not that i ever clicked on one of those notifications, but some primal part in me wants to keep it, like a bookmark or treasure. As if i'm afraid to lose them.
sqow
I am! 😄
I'm not sure how it interacts with the filters, but you should post what you want.
LucianofSamosata
Cool, will do :-)
TheYodajen
I follow you and I think i can handle deciphering between politics and nature. No problem here. You go forth with your badass self
CodyBurkett
I do, but i don't mind seeing messed up politics from another different shitshow than the one here in America.
WilliamWeird
I tagged "LNI", but it was moreso a precaution so that I wasn't reposting
hyptosis
You're literally the ONLY person on imgur I've ever followed, haha.
LucianofSamosata
<3
JohnSmithterms
yes I follow people ... but no i have not followed you for nature stuff
LucianofSamosata
Good to know!
chaotropicagent
assuming they don’t want to see politics, wouldn’t they filter out tagged posts
aShogunNamedMarcus
This. I follow but I also filter out tagged Politica posts... though I confess I don't know if Follow overrides filters
LucianofSamosata
Ha! Perfect! this post is tagged "Politics" did you get a notification?
aShogunNamedMarcus
Ah yes I did so Follow beats Tag Filter
LucianofSamosata
Good to know, thanks for testing!
LucianofSamosata
do filters work with notifications from followed users? Couldn't find anything about it...
SteveMND
Pretty sure they are two separate systems. If you follow, you get notified regardless of what the subject actually was. Filters/blocks just keeps you from seeing something randomly as you manually go through the posts.
ParallelParkingInABurka
The follow mostly overrides any filters. I checked for this over a period of a few weeks not too long ago, and sometimes the following account would get notified despite their filter, sometimes it wouldn't. Eventually, most posts got through, though, so it's likely that people who follow you will get notified despite any filters. You might lose some followers as a result, so if you want to avoid that, you should probably make a separate account. Or just go the "meh, deal with it!" route. :D
LucianofSamosata
If I lose followers when I post my anti-genoside opinions, so be it!
No big loss.
But, this is a place for escapism, to waste time looking at memes and nice stuff. so I don't know, maybe I ruined it for people...
ParallelParkingInABurka
Yup, that's exactly the quandary. I know that many people started following my "Oodles" posts for the escapism and distraction, so I do feel bad about dropping the latest political horror straight past their filters into their feeds... I'm sure some people unfollowed me because of it, but I figure some things are just too important.
CrisprCAS
You can make a second account for that purpose if you're worried.
LucianofSamosata
New account posting about politics... Maybe I'M the bot!
CrisprCAS
Beep boop
zeebeez13
Sneep snoop...
LucianofSamosata
Like2Fox
Overwhelming majority of the accounts, even spam accounts, are seeded and managed by real people
LucianofSamosata
Not this one, I'm an owl, sitting on a fox, standing on a racoon, wearing a trench coat :-P
Like2Fox
Oh that's what they all say