Comment on A fediverse platform that lets you block whole topics, not just communities?
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 23 hours ago
Does anyone know of software that already provides topic-level blocking out of the box without needing long manual lists?
yep, reddit, facebook, twitter...
Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
You don’t seem to get my point. For a platform to let me reliably filter a whole topic, the majority of posts need to be tagged with that topic first. Reddit/Facebook don’t do that, they have communities and loose categories, not consistent topic tags across all posts. Twitter only partially does it with hashtags, and hashtags are neither comprehensive nor applied consistently. I’m talking about platform-level, booru-style or collaborative tagging so blocking a tag actually removes the tagged content without me having to unsubscribe from dozens of communities or build giant keyword lists.
otter@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
Imo it might be easier to collaboratively build keyword lists. It’s tedious to tag posts manually, and it becomes impossible to do it effectively after the user base grows past a certain point. You can auto-remove any post that isn’t tagged, but a lot of people dislike that kind of filtering and only a few communities would implement something like that