I'll bring you straight into my mind: I was scrolling throught the n-th depressing post of the ~~day~~ hour and I thought "If I answer that post/comment by #negativity, will other people be able to filter out this content using my answer?" If not, how could we build some sort of blocklist for people to curate there experience on the fediverse.

I know I can block key word like "politics" "Trump" "Elon" but sometimes it doesn't have a precised word yet use human can categorise it easily.

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[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A workaround could be to make several Lemmy alts - one for each type of content you would want to include in your Subscribed feed. Like one could be only uplifting news. Most of the time you’d be looking at the same older content though… without being able to widen your view that would allow bringing in of new content.

I'm already doing that but I was looking for a collaborative way to build a common browsing experience by filtering out. PieFed's feeds are great, I love them but they are working by selecting not filtering.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yes and moreover, feeds work at the community level, not individual posts. Which is a step in the right direction but you may want finer-grain control. Filters may offer more what you are looking for in that case.

I did not mention previously but PieFed also allows you to block all users from a user-specified instance, without requiring admin approval to perform full defederation. It is not perfect but it is very good and e.g. I use it to block Lemmy.ml, which saves me a lot of headaches as most of the worst, most argumentative and unfriendly (and batshit insane) comments I've seen come from there. Lemmy's instance filter is horribly misnamed - it would have much better been called a community muting, as it blocks communities from that insurance but the users remain free to troll you in communities located in other instances, leaving replies, triggering notifications, etc.

The Lemmy apps Sync and Connect can also block all users from an instance.

Edit: also check out !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world - it uses cross-posts to build up a curated listing of "good" posts by some metric. Conversely, the entire instance of beehaw.org works the opposite by extensive manual curation efforts to remove "bad" content by other metrics.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 1 points 5 days ago

Yes and moreover, feeds work at the community level, not individual posts

Exactly. I guess the threadiverse can fully be oriented to standalone post as it is not by definition microblogging but may be there could be a few functionality that affect the post themselves.