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

InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 62 points –
Filter for Hiding Unwanted Content · Issue #3527 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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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?

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.

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.

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