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Suggestion: Just like a NSFW tag, it would help to have a Political tag. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe a general tag system, with community owners able to add tags that automatically apply to all posts, would be good? Otherwise there's potential for special purpose tags like this to start piling up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

someone mentioned elsewhere, but worth repeating here i think: this already has a merged RFC and apparently someone is working on it

https://github.com/LemmyNet/rfcs/pull/4

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

That's a really good idea! Implementing that type of approach would account for accessibility, provides the each communities with options that individuals can use to curate their experience, and handles those factors while not blocking out or causing any complications with the wider fediverse.