2y ago

Lemmy could have a filter so that people don't have to read content they don't want

Filter for Hiding Unwanted Content · Issue #3527 · LemmyNet/lemmy

I thought it was a great idea when I read it in this comment. That way, if you didn't want to hear about Reddit, you wouldn't have to.

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This, and the ability to use flairs would be really useful here on Lemmy. Flairing posts was such an essential way to organise posts on a lot of specific subreddits.
That kind of feature is so needed
- Flairs would be good to have, I agree. But aren’t flairs just a special case of hashtags? Could we implement it on top of the hashtag model?
I can't help but wonder if this would be better served at the client level. Either way I miss this feature.
- You are right. I moved it to the ui.
The Connect app on Android already has a lot of great filtering options. You can filter posts that contain certain words, and I believe it just added the ability to hide entire instances.
- Yup, you can block instances, communities, and by keyword like you mentioned.
Yes please. My blocklist on R....t had so many random words I just prefer to avoid for whatever reason. I worry for my state of mind as Lemmy grows and they start appearing.
I think on R it was part of the API, but I'm not sure.
Btw why post this in shower thoughts and not somewhere Lemmy related? Tbh it's also a tad annoying seeing meta Lemmy posts everywhere. Nostupidquestions is nothing but Lemmy already
I just want to filter by language first. I can only read English. So i dont want to see all the german (or others) communities that keep popping up.
- I always see german posts in english because of the the web translation extension. The only reason I know it's german is because of the language tag.
Looking at you Linux

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