When blocking a community, crossposts from that community should also be blocked or filtered out.

If I block a community is because I don’t want to see anything from it, but if someone crosspost from there I have the content that I don’t like in my curated feed.

For example, I’m interested in a certain topic and I follow community A which focuses in that topic. There is also community B which covers the same topic but using AI to generate content. I block B, however since A doesn’t have a rule against AI, people crosspost a lot from B to A.

AI is the most frequent content that I see in my my feed due crosspost, but there is also multiple cases that I block a community centered in a topic that I don’t want to see and someone crosspost from said community to memes or similar.

Maybe there are people fine with how it works right now and want to see when someone crosspost drama from said community, but there should be be the option to enable filtering out them.

  • moseschrute@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    I had an idea recently. Basically a blocklist you can subscribe to for Lemmy. It’s annoying that every person needs to go through the process of tuning their filters to block the same types of content. Sort of like an RSS feed but for filters, so the filters can continue to update and improve after you subscribe to them. I don’t really use BlueSky, but this based on my rough understanding of how they have blocklists.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 days ago

      I think it could work the same way you can import settings from an old account to a new one?

      Like someone can make a brand new account, block some shit, then export the .json file

      I just don’t know if when you import it, if it’s additive (which means it would work) or if it replaces what exists with what’s in the file. If that’s the case existing accounts would “lose” their own subscriptions and blocks.

      • moseschrute@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        9 days ago

        I’m imaging you subscribe to the “block us politics” list, as an example. That list gets updated with new terms, communities, etc. you can stack multiple lists you want to block. For example, in addition to US politics, you also subscribe to the AI block list. These lists remain completely separate from your custom filters.