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[Proposal] Content Filtering
(lemmy.zip)
I'm working on a new filtering engine that I think will be like nothing you've seen yet.
Basic overview:
- There will be a list of filters you can browse
- E.g. US Politics
- You select the filter list(s) you are interested in
- The filter list will receive updates.
- Say a new political event happens and a new name floods the news. The list can be updated dynamically to include the new name without you having to do anything.
For those of you that are tech savvy:
- Filter lists will live on GitHub
- You can fork an existing filter list.
- You can create/host your own filter list for other Blorp users.
- You can open pull requests for existing filter lists.
- There will be some tools within Blorp to debug your filter list
Other notes:
- I don't plan on letting you build these filter list from within the app. They are far too complex to edit easily within the app.
- But that complexity means you can do far more than other apps
- Block a post
IFit mentions a US state (e.g. "Texas")ANDit mentions "shooting" - Block a post
IFit mentions "ICE"ANDit mentions ("detention"OR"deport") - Block a post
IFit's by a specific list of usersANDit mentions a specific word
- Block a post
- The goal is to create more collaboration between users and make it easier to cut through all the noise on Lemmy and PieFed
How are you currently using filtering in Blorp, Voyager, etc?
- What type of content are you currently trying to block?
- Are your filters very unique to you, or something that could be shared as a list?
Currently, I’ve used Blorp to block communities and tag/block users; it’s faster and fool-proof (for me). If I don’t want anything from any News Community to reach my feed, I just block it.
Now that articles aren’t as frequently cross-posted, I’ve been slowly unblocking communities and users. Most of the users I’ve blocked were already banned so my Block List isn’t unique after all. I appreciate being able to manage my Block List from the Blorp app; thank you very much.
This Content Filtering you are proposing sounds amazing! It looks like I’ll be able to have my feed set back to All or Subscribed again instead of having to go through each individual community.
What you described at the end is exactly what I want to fix. You should be able to browse all. I’ll make it so the filters are easy to toggle on/off if you wanna peek what was is being hidden. Potentially I may add a scheduling feature if you want to subject your self to a limited amount of political doom every day. But for v1 of filters I don’t want to over complicate it.