Just thought of an idea at 4:52 am. What if you could long tap a post you don’t like to see, tap something like “snooze posts like this for a week”, and then all posts related to the subject would be hidden for a week but the filter will self destruct after the time limit.

Would people be interested in a feature like that?

I came up with the idea after I noticed that Lemmy, like Reddit, will cycle through certain topics. Sometimes you really aren’t interested or there’s simply too many posts about the topic you just want to tune it out.

Anyways if people want this let me know in the comments!

  • Aielman15
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    17 months ago

    It depends on how thorough the blacklist is, but I usually avoid using those, because I fear I may be losing interesting discussions that only tangentially mention the topic I’m blacklisting. Or maybe they are discussing that topic from a different perspective that I may find interesting.

    It’s not like Lemmy has so many discussions to choose from, anyway. Among the communities I’m subscribed to, the most active ones only have three or four discussions per day, at most. I don’t feel like a (albeit temporary) blacklist is useful when there’s so little content to parse through. If there were a hundred posts per day, and I was interested in hiding half of them to better highlight the ones I’m interested at - but with so few posts, I can ignore them just fine without the help of an automatic blacklist.