There should be a Fediverse platform that makes blocking entire topics as easy as blocking a tag, not subscribing/unsubscribing dozens of communities. Firefish (antennas) and PieFed let you follow/block keywords, but that’s not the same as robust, community-wide topic blocking. Imagine collaborative, booru-style tagging across posts so blocking a tag reliably removes all content using it. Does anyone know of software that already provides topic-level blocking out of the box without needing long manual lists?
Here’s hoping keyword blocking hits Lemmy/my instance is able to facilitate its planned switch to PieFed without a hitch in the future. I used to use that feature extensively on Reddit (with RES) to great success and minimal effort.
However, I’m not a fan of centralized crowdsourced tagging. Topic tagging is significantly more subjective than e.g. the functionality provided by crowdsourced extensions like SponsorBlock and will likely significantly reduce/fragment engagement if shared blocklists become widely adopted. Imagine somebody tagging something inappropriately to soft-censor certain posts to groups of users… there are many scenarios that this could be misused if improperly designed or implemented.
There is an argument to made towards making flairs a thing on a post/community-level and allow blocking from that. It’d be neat to filter memes, for example.
Skavau@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
This would require a fediverse platform that has a built-in, accurate tagging system. So no under that basis.