Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse
skribe@piefed.social 1 day agoFilters already mute keywords and can be set for specific periods of time. AFAIK*, subscribed blocklists were rejected because they could be used to target minority members by bad actors. How are custom feeds different from lists?
- From threads on the subject months ago, so that might have changed.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I haven’t been on mast for a bit. Custom feeds can do things like give you the posts of your quieter folks, see only posts (not so useful if you could just select certain people to only see self-posts, but useful now), I can get a feed of what’s popular with my friends. Those are examples from my own, but there are tons of custom feeds.
Oh I forgot you can do things like a classifier and labeled, so I can choose to identify myself as a developer and see if someone else labels themselves similarly. There are a bunch of other labelers.
I am aware of the potential issues with subscribed blocklists, but I use a few anyway, and it saves me from doing a lot of blocking myself. It’s not perfect because it is abuseable , but I like having the choice to use it.