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Community block lists (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With all the noise on lemmy, spam, and political content I have no interest in, the thought occurred to have blocklists similar to adblock lists. Has anyone looked into this before, is it already a thing? Any thoughts on that?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So basically just a way to export/import community block lists (e.g to a json/csv file) and share them?

I'm mostly asking since I maintain a Lemmy frontend (Tesseract), and that sounds like an easy feature to implement if I understand correctly.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea some way to automatically update community maintained block lists. Intent would be to share work done by individuals to benefit everyone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, cool. I'll add something like that to my roadmap. I'll leave the sharing part up to the users, but I don't think it should be hard to export/import a block list from a text file.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about a way to check for updates to the blocklist from a URL, e.g. a file on github.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doable, but the problem lies in distributing the Github link to pull / check.

If I hard code it, that wouldn't work for a lot of people (different people block for different reasons, etc). If it's a user option, you'd have to put the GitHub link in on every device (user settings are only saved locally).

Best case would be an option to either upload a JSON file or enter a URL to pull a JSON file.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I think it would need to be user configurable which list they want to subscribe to, possibly multiple lists. Maybe have categories of block lists.