sh.itjust.works Main Community @sh.itjust.works fishpen0 @lemmy.world 2y ago

The number of shitposting communities is exploding

Lemmy needs serverside hide features for posts and for communities or I’ll never find real interesting communities hiding on the 10th page of top feeds. This lack of functionality could cause the top feeds to stay trash permanently and drive away users. Especially when new apps are constantly appearing, client side hides are more or less useless as I switch between apps.

Reddit post hide features are fairly performant because they quietly expire after some period of time. They stay in your “hidden” list but actually will start showing in the results again if somehow that content is still visible. You can see this on super slow or abandoned subreddits if you hide every and come back a month later.

Reddit community blocking features have always sucked with the serverside limit of 100. Seems even more dire in Lemmy when the same shitposting communities spring up on different hosts

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This is what the Block feature is for. Block the communities.
- It's not immediately apparent in the interface like it might have been in other communities using third-party software. (It would be really nice to access the feature using the kebab menu on the home page listing page, e.g. this: .)
  
  But at least on sh.itjust.works, you can access the feature through the Settings link:
  
  ... buried under your username menu, and then by clicking the 'Blocked' tab.
  
  I hope that's helpful to someone else like me who wanted this feature too and didn't realize it existed!
  
  EDIT: It's also actually a lot easier to find if you click into the community; there's a big ol' 'Block community' button:
- Oh shit. Wefwef is missing the block feature. I had to switch to Memmy to block them. Well that covers half of this.
  
  What's the other half?
Subscribe to the communities you like, then switch to "Subscribed" view, just like on Reddit. The front page is what it is, an honest /r/all – on Reddit it was mostly porn, and after some retooling mostly low-effort meme subs. But that's exactly what "Subscribed" is there for!!

At least you're not advocating to harshly monitor/ban/disallow community creation, like some others already did, basically treating the whole instance like an uber-strict subreddit of its own.

Instead, it's easy: Subscribe. Then switch to Subscribed. If you want more communities, look at a list, or switch to All again.
- The way I used Reddit was to do exactly this, but also with the extra step to heavily curate All and Poular by blocking communities that came up all the time that I had no plans to subscribe to. This turned my version of All and Popular into a feed of mostly communities I’ve never seen before and not just a wall of meme spam
  
  The solution turned out to be that wefwef is missing the block community feature so I now have my exact workflow over on Memmy
  
  "The way I used Reddit" a gentle reminder friendo that this is not reddit.
This feature already exists. When I block a community in an Android app and go to the website at sh.itjust.works, and look at my Preferences > Blocks, I see the community I just blocked in my app, even if they are on a remote instance.

So, I guess I don't understand the problem.
heh bean funny
Just block them, there aren't many of these communities.
thats why effort (github contribution) should be focused on lemmy web first. then when site is solid u can build apps on top of it, and u wouldnt need to think much of features later since web is already the inspiration
How, in 2023, are we still doing the "omg so randumb!!!1!!eleven holds up spork" style "humor"? Shit is so tired.
- Because there are kids on the internet now who are the same age as we were when we thought that was funny
- That's a matter of perspective. It's new to new users and old to you. That doesn't make it any less irritating to wade through, but that's the curse of age.
Then pick an instance that lets you do this? Why is this rocket science for some?

You're going from app to app and complain the app settings doesn't automatically follow you to the next app? Did I get that right?
- How is an instance going to let you hide communities that would have to be an app feature
  
  On your Lemmy instance site (i.e. not in an app) click the sidebar for a community you're not subscribed to and press block community
  
  What are you talking about? You're using the same instance as me. If I can block communities. So can you.
  
  If you're complaining that some app don't have that feature added to it. Then either improve it, write your own, submitt feedback to the developed, or pick another app.
Like diarrhea

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