Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse
podbrushkin@mander.xyz 2 months ago@moseschrute@lemmy.world You were talking about something like that
Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse
podbrushkin@mander.xyz 2 months ago@moseschrute@lemmy.world You were talking about something like that
moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes! There would be a spec written for blocklists that could be applied to Lemmy or PoeFed. You can quickly toggle on/off a blocklist. For example, I can subscribe to a “US Politics” blocklist, and toggle it on/off when I need a break from news.
podbrushkin@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Is it only an idea? I can think of automatic tagging of all posts. If you have access to a post and all its comments, probably you can programmatically assign a tag to it. Based on “words cloud” or something like that. Annoying posts usually have a lot of comments which simplifies automatic tagging. It can make it possible to filter out specific topics, or, contrary, browse them specifically.
moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But where do you store the computed tag? I guess you could hack it by having a bot that comments the computed post tags on the post itself, but that’s messy.
podbrushkin@mander.xyz 2 months ago
If computing these tags is not expensive, they can be computed and stored internally in the app at client side. If this will work and will be useful, it can be moved to server-side in one of lemmy’s updates. Each post will have have probable tags in metadata with % of how sure an algorithm was about assigning this tag. Personally, I think affecting your feed by picking appropriate instance doesn’t work, and I do hope other instance-independent ways to browse lemmy will become available. But right now I haven’t found a time even to check Lemmy’s api to see what’s already available.