I would love to sometimes filter out any and all political posts, I think having this enabled as default on some instances would also be preferred by some users.
I’m a software dev, if it doesn’t require a lot of work I’m happy to make a Pull Request for this feature, but do people want this? Is there anyone I should maybe talk to before starting, or anything I should know?
Edit: I realise it won’t filter out ALL political posts, but even if it only catches half of the stuff, it could make the difference between being flooded with Trump/Musk news and not.
Some new users might turn away before knowing the can set filters etc. (which also aren’t perfect)
In spirit it’s a great idea but in practice it is nearly impossible to pull off and a fuckload of extra work for mods. Better to just curate your own feed. I’ve tried this and it might not be everyone’s cup of tea but I just log off socials when the shit gets overwhelming.
Don’t think it would be that much extra work, and each instance can decide how and if they want to manage it
If each instance decides on their own usage, then it no longer becomes a useful filter. We already see this with the NSFW tag (god forbid I ask for it to be put on a post showing the business end of a fleshlight hanging out the rear end of a stuffed animal dog, that isn’t nsfw apparently because it’s not real nudity or something).
From one coder to another: This is classic coder overconfidence. The complexity isn’t in the hypothetical code but in the people and how the feature may or may not be used.
Explodingheads is going to have a distinctly different idea of “political” than Lemmygrad.
The Fediverse has few enough daily users that you can block political communities and the people who post overwhelmingly political content outside of those communities.
You can also use one of the handful of clients that allow keyword filtering.