Honestly, I say we ditch NSFW as a on/off switch and go with a mandatory tagging system. We can clarify NSFW into content warning tags, e.g.
CW - Gore,CW - Death,CW - Breast,CW - Genitalia.Users could then set their own preferences on which tags would cause a post to be masked or simply hidden.
But why stop there? Tags could be very useful in our federated environment to help communities mesh better with each other.
Communities could be able to specify a list of mandatory tags, i.e. the Swallow community could require posts specify
African SwalloworEuropean Swallow(or both or neither). Communities could also make some tags implied, so the AfricanSwallow community might just imply that posts areAfrician Swallowunless user changes it.Underneath the hood, all tags are just treated as part of the post text, so the backend performance impact will be minimal. However moderation tools would be able to consider tags when deciding how to handle a post.
Of course, the server/instance owner can then simply make a policy of what kinds of content warnings they require, and communities can then build other tags on that to meet their community needs.
I’d like a simple and easy way to share blocklists. I spent my first few weeks on Lemmy blocking everything I didn’t want to see, and now I rarely see things from outside my bubble…
On second thought maybe that’s not such a good thing
exportable block/ban lists would actually be kind of cool
YES! A hide sports button sounds amazing. Including car sports of course.
And a hide Hentai/Manga/Anime button. I don’t understand its popularity.
A hide Games/Gaming/Gamer button including PS1-7, Xbox, Playstation etc…
Definitely a hide Furry/yiff/fetish button.
A boobs/celeb/shoes button
A religion button.
People can look at whatever they like, but it would be amazing of my block list could be reduced from a thousand to a couple. The brilliant thing about federated instances is also one of the most annoying. If you block something on lemmy.world you likely have the same community on lemmy.ml or many of the other instances. Blocking the exact thing five times is tedious.
I’d love to be able to block an entire instance. @lemmynsfw has a tonne of creepy-ass communities dedicated to posting pictures of female celebrities. There’s never any sort of real content, just celebrities, sometimes in revealing clothes, and creepy titles like “beautiful” or “wow” or something like that.
Was just scrolling through the All feed and saw one for Sadie Sink. The entire thing gives me the willies, it’s so gross.
If you are using android, connect for lemmy can block instances. It is much more peaceful. It even blocks the comments from the users. Although you can have them show as you come across them if you so choose.
There apps that can filter entire instances
This is horrible imo. I personally turned off NSFW since I don’t really care about missing out on gore or the likes.
Except people use NSFW to mark spoilers as well
Or politics.
Or religion.
Or video games
Or anime
Hide all sports related content, no question!
It would be nice if every community had to pick a tag associated with it so that you can automatically filter out communities you have no interest in. E.g. Politics, news, memes, sports, tech, celebrities, TV/Movies, etc…
I’d filter out Mr [Trump] and similar ilk immediately.
That’s a great idea. I’d prefer this instead of instances that are mainly focused on specific topics
Both would be even better…
Sports, Religion and War, the 3 most wasteful activities humans have invented.
With Sync you can just pre-emptively filter based on keywords.
People have different tastes. The best way is to add a tag system (probably tags that are applied to entire communities)
Agreed
That’s weird I don’t see any sports content. But both filters would be appreciated.
Hide all news and politics button for me please.
lol yea I keep blocking the sports bots that post game stats, it took ages cause each team has their own bot but I seem to have blocked all of them at this point
