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.
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.