Am I correct in assuming that blocking a community stops it from showing in your feed? I see a lot of posts from communities in languages I don’t speak and would like them to not show up on my feed. So I blocked a few, but I’m not 100% sure if what I did has the intended effect.
(Maybe it’s just because to me, blocking a person seems like something I wouldn’t do to someone who hasn’t done anything wrong, haha XD)
I’m making an app, I’m very close to an Android beta (iPhone will be a bit later), and I’ll put in a “block all communities on this server” button. I can also auto block them the first time a community is seen based on a list of blocked servers
The nice thing is the blocks would be through your account, so if you use the app it would affect the web as well (although the block would only go into place after the app sees it, so it wouldn’t work perfectly in the browser)
I imagine any issue you see one person talk about will be a pain point for many, so would that fix most of what makes you hesitant to stay?
What’s the name of your app? I’m looking forward to trying it.
Yeah that sounds good, though one question comes to mind that is, if users from that instance can still interact with me? Or can they be filtered/blocked too?
I would like that cause I hate all these Q guys (I lost a relative to this cult). Someone blocking an instance mainly for its content and not users might disagree though. I don‘t even know if it works like that on kbin actually.
So I would say your solution by itself would already fix like 90% of what I want, the rest would be a “nice to have”.
I‘m on iPhone, but I‘ll keep a look out for any Lemmy apps that pop up in the App Store for sure and I wish you good luck with it!
I could do something similar with users, but I’m a bit hesitant to make that too easy - my main drive for doing this is to undo a lot of the problems caused by social media.
My belief is that echo chambers encourage extreme beliefs, and interacting with people who constantly push back against those beliefs will blunt them.
At the same time, it’s more important to me that using it is more healthy for most users.
Maybe I’ll do something like a 3-strike policy? Like if you ban users from the same site 3 times, it can unlock the feature and ask.
I’ll put some thought into it. Also, I plan to do a build for iPhone, but I need to get a hold of a Mac and pay for the app store license… If the Android version gets any traction I’m sure that’ll work itself out