I have a load of filters set up on my feed, notably I don’t want to see Trump or Elon.
Due to recent events, so much content is coming through that it is as if I don’t have filters at all.
If the text or title doesn’t include the key words, it can’t be filtered. All the screenshots or posts with jokes or bad titles can’t be filtered.
I think the only way proper filters could be achieved is with a separate ‘tags’ field that could be added to or voted on by community members.
This might all seem like a lot of effort, but feed filters are such a good feature that I think it would be worth it.
I don’t want unreasonable perfection for the filters, but the system seems too flawed at the moment.
I have no idea where this kind of discussion or decision would be made so I’m just throwing it out as a question here.
You are in luck! That feature is already worked on. https://github.com/LemmyNet/rfcs/pull/4
Amazing! I’m so excited.
I’ve started to use RSS readers so I only see the posts I want. Some RSS readers let you filter by keyword to really make sure they don’t show up.
I’m using keyword filters here and I’m getting memes, screenshots of twitter or content that naturally creeps through. What is the advantage of RSS in that regard? I’m keen to check it out if it works.
Can you elaborate on your RSS setup? In 2025, I’m planning on switching entirely to text-based mobile browsing and RSS sounds like the best avenue for me
Some UIs will treat anything in the title in brackets like a flair: “Enough Musk Spam [Rant]”
I believe Photon will let you filter based on those.
So it’s possible now (apps that don’t support flairs will just have [Flair word] in the title), but it would require community rules for it. And from seeing what gets posted to a lot of communities, good luck getting people to actually read the rules before posting.
Tags in titles doesn’t really work, I was thinking about a new field entirely. Multiple tags could exist without crowding the title.
I think tags that can be community added and voted on would be better than mandatory now I think about it some more.
Something like this is an excellent idea. I understand for the proper functioning of a democracy is to have its citizens fully informed, but the rest of the world is not a citizen of the USA. Yes I still want to know the important stuff since our world is a connected world, but do I really have to see how the POTUS is holding a water bottle weirdly, or that they like Dijon mustard on their hot dog or tripped on a stair and now their age is in question.
My country has significantly more problems that are more relevant to myself, just like every other person from another country, and being bombarded by USA politics is exhausting and quite frankly a waste of my time and mental health.
There really should be either a mandatory tag for political posts or alternatively strict “no politics” rule on a non-political communities. My feed is like swiss cheese due to the gaps left my my content filters. It’s absolutely insane to think that someone consumes this much Trump and Elon content every day.
What does this do that the community system doesn’t? If I don’t want to see a certain type of content, I don’t sub that muni.
You’ve already had a good reply, but I’ll go more general. I want to see the news. I don’t want to see news about Elon. I want to see memes, but not memes about Trump.
It isn’t realistic to have communities for everyone’s preferences.
I don’t think that the actual problem is non-political content being flooded out, but a lack of non-political content being submitted.
Communities can have different types of content in them. For example, the Cyberpunk ttrpg community could have a tag for each version of the game. Users could filter on the versions they are interested in.
