I mainly block communities (not keywords) that are just automated Reddit archives. Depending on the bot used this could be done via the text in the post (if it mentions being a automated post), however I think community blocking works better for this so not a feature useful for me at the moment. I do however have a question regarding the way this would, would it be like an adblocker where it’s just a text file? If so, do you have to host it on GitHub or eg codeberg work as well?
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- The filter spec I mention would allow you to crate a list that blocks all automated content. Either by post body like you mentioned or by blocking specific communities. The difference is instead of every person individually maintaining that list, everyone could share the list of filters.
- The filters will just be a json file. You will be able to host filters as long as the service you are using supports some sort of hosting. GitHub has GitHub pages. I would have to look into what codeberg offers
Codeberg has codeberg pages but the feature is in maintenance mode. I was just curious if there was any vendor lock in
I’m not too worried vendor lockin. I’m not using anything that specific to GitHub. I’ll probably put the filters behind filters.blorpblorp.xyz so I can always point that domain to a different location later if I need to move off GitHub.
Edit: I think I can get around codeberg pages not being high availability by cached the filters. Then when we are able to pull the most up to date version, it will update the cache. I was going to do this anyway in case you subscribe to a filter and it gets deleted. If it gets deleted, the filter list will still be cached.
Just wanted to loop back to this. If you don’t mind listing out the automated post filters you are taking about, I would love to create a filter list for those that can share with everyone.
I just block the lemmit.online and zerobytes.monster instances and the lululemmy.com/c/redditmirror and 50501.chat/c/Mirror communities. There are probably more but those appeared in my feed so I blocked them. It isn't enough to block the specific bot accounts as the communities will still appear in the community list. Since the instances are as far as I can see just reddit archives I just blocked the whole instance.
The lemmit bot includes
This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
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in every post and the zerobytes one
The original post:
in every post. There seems to be no consistent message with these bots, so I'm not surre text filtering would be more effective than instance/community/user based blocking
Also what would also be cool is one for AI generated content eg communities like !imageai@sh.itjust.works or !aiart@hilariouschaos.com
Wow. That sounds elaborate and well thought out.
I actually only used simple filters in mastodon to filter my timeline and up too now never thought about filters in lemmy.
Would you filter post by headline or bodytext? A filter in the body might result in a lot false positives.
The filtering engine I’m prototyping supports filtering by title or body. I’m test driving a filter list to hide all US political content. I’m going to see how successful that is and then decide if body is necessary. So far, I’ve been able to accomplish everything I need without looking at the post body.
Currently, I’ve used Blorp to block communities and tag/block users; it’s faster and fool-proof (for me). If I don’t want anything from any News Community to reach my feed, I just block it.
Now that articles aren’t as frequently cross-posted, I’ve been slowly unblocking communities and users. Most of the users I’ve blocked were already banned so my Block List isn’t unique after all. I appreciate being able to manage my Block List from the Blorp app; thank you very much.
This Content Filtering you are proposing sounds amazing! It looks like I’ll be able to have my feed set back to All or Subscribed again instead of having to go through each individual community.
What you described at the end is exactly what I want to fix. You should be able to browse all. I’ll make it so the filters are easy to toggle on/off if you wanna peek what was is being hidden. Potentially I may add a scheduling feature if you want to subject your self to a limited amount of political doom every day. But for v1 of filters I don’t want to over complicate it.
Nice idea, personally I think that updatable block list should be managed at the platform level (Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin) rather than the client, but that's a personal opinion
I would like to publish this as a specification for other clients to implement. So I’m thinking this could live outside of Blorp, Lemmy, and PieFed.
This could also work !