Would anyone else find a "Local" filter useful?

readbeanicecream@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 7 points –

I would like to have a "Local" filter to only show kbin magazines. It would be listed with "Subscribed", "All", etc. That way I could filter without tuning Federation off in the settings.

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Isn't that what the "Federation On | Off" setting basically does?

On your sidebar, next to the settings gear there is the connection-icon and you can turn off federation so that you only see magazines and content only from your local instance.

Thanks. So, if I I turn federation off and comment on a kbin thread, will federation users outside of kbin still be able to interact with it?

This hasn't been documented (and I haven't tested), but I'm fairly certain that on user level you can't block your comments and posts from getting federated with other instances. That would be instance-admin level settings.

The federation on/off button should only hide federated content from you, but I'm not sure if it even applies to the stuff that has already been loaded into your feed, as I still see some content from other instances if I turn it off, but could be due to other kbin users who have commented on the thread so you'd only see kbin users comments.

Still waiting for bit more documentation on kbin, but I'm sure a lot of it will change as ernest and other contributors work on the code.

I would like to add to this request:

  1. I would like to know where certain thread that I can see is from. I can see it if I look on the link, but not otherwise. In fact, plenty of threads say that they are on kbin.social, while being on lemmy. Especially if they present a link that leads somewhere.

  2. I would like if I can have not one, but several customizable main pages/views. Like on Reddit or Twitter, one for subscribed, so I can see content just for me, one for all, so I can see active threads in community, and the suggested local is also great. This doesn't have to be baked-in, but something where I can customize multiple views would be great. This could be added to the "hot, new, active".

Gotcha. I don't want to hide from other users, just filter my feed sometimes to only show kbin posts.