Community of the Android app Boost for Lemmy
Please could you add a toggle to filter out posts by new accounts? My feed often contains low-effort links to news articles, always posted by new accounts. I've filtered out the users, but they just get new accounts on other instances to continue.
Please comment if you'd also like this feature added!
(Edited to add screenshots of new accounts, and my blocklist containing another low effort user)
Not sure if this is a productive solution.
You'd just end up with the exact same posts, but now coming from accounts that are x days/weeks/months old.
Don't get me wrong, spam and low effort are absolutely an issue, but I'm not sure how this would fix it.
I mean I could see it, obviously moderators wouldn't use it. Idea is of course is bad actors will get banned or bored after a certain amount of time. Of course if it's not basing it on amount of posts or some level of activity, then that may just cause trolls to bulk produce accounts, and start using them as they hit a certain age.
When you do it by activity, then you run into the side problem. IE say someone is introduced to lemmy because there's a community focused on a specific topic they need help on. People create an account, post for help... but get no replies because obviously they haven't hit the activity threshold so, they effectively start out shadowbanned. They assume the lack of responses is because the communities aren't active and don't stick around long enough to figure it out.
Good point about the unintended consequences for genuine new accounts, and how spammers will find another way to spam. I guess that's why a toggle for filtering new accounts would allow the end user to decide what they want to see.
Yeah I don't oppose the toggles, just seeing the unintended consequence. IE if most users disable accounts under 1 week old... then most new users will think no one looks at their posts... and give up, before they have a chance to learn that's what's going on. It's kind of the fear because it's not those who use the setting that actually see the negative consiquence, besides the possibility of no growth in the platform as a whole (due to people leaving discouraged).
Exactly as you've said... I'm now seeing low effort news articles posted by a 6 day account.
Looks like @rimu@piefed.social / @rimu@lemmy.world has also had enough of such accounts and implemented auto-delete: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/22241904
Please hurry up and delete your account, I want to test something.
lmao
Same two people that i block every day. Iโm on voyager and piefed though.
Maybe the better solution is just to change your sorting method? Maybe "New Comments" would be good here, or "Active"
Thanks, I'm using "hot"... I'll try your suggestions to at least downgrade the visibility of those posts.
I never really liked Lemmy's algorithm for "Hot", I think it leans too hard towards recency instead of votes/activity
I actually made a suggestion to tweak it, but it got declined https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4471
you could drop a comment there if you think it should be reconsidered
I use a client that has this feature, and it's nice. Would definitely recommend it.
What is said client?
I run a local copy of Tesseract
Oh hello, this looks very compelling. Thanks for the suggestion!
Decent idea, Clay. ๐
:p