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.
I just had this experience again with one of the obnoxious moe communities. NSFW/porn-adjacent stuff is most of what I have blocked because I don’t like it. I don’t want questionable pseudo-porn in my feed at all, and it’s really hard to avoid (though real porn was easy enough to block).
I had them all blocked, but a new one got rolled up (I assume that dude keeps rolling them up to get around the plethora of blocks those communities have) and I hadn’t encountered it yet. It shared a gross post I’d otherwise never have had the displeasure of seeing.
Perhaps a toggle setting to either block those cross posts or not, so people who are trying to block the content can, while those trying to block the places but not the content can also do that.
AI is the most frequent content that I see in my my feed due crosspost,
There’s a few instances that are militantly pro-ai, even going so far to ban people just for downvoting AI.
If you just block the communities on those instances, it’s like playing whackamole. Because they won’t stop making identical communities.
So you need to block the entire instance, and/or the mods since they’re the ones making all the posts/crossposts
You won’t miss much, the problematic ones tend to have monthly users in the double digits, they’re only there to bait people from rational instances into arguing with them where they’re a mod.
Ideally .world would just defederate from those troll instances. But they really really want to federate with everyone.
So just block all those instances yourself.
As I said, AI is just an example, and it doesn’t work when they share the same instance as the communities I’m interested in.
Best of luck then I guess…
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.
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.
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.
I was just about to post this.
Along with this, there are double postings because people are crossposting a second after posting and it is clunking up my feed with duplicates.
Yeah, they have different comment threads, but I don’t care. I don’t want to see all these duplicates everywhere.
And then there’s like you say, where I’ve blocked the community and it shows up on my feed anyway because someone is crossposting to a community I haven’t blocked. But if it comes from that community, I don’t want to see it at all.
I’d like a feature to just block all crossposts. I don’t want to see any of them.
I normally only block communities because I don’t want to accidentally comment on a community full of people I’m not going to get along with. I’m often fine discussing such things among different people. So I prefer not to have this change, but I can understand your reasoning and I don’t disagree that it’s a reasonable ask. Maybe as an optional account setting?
That’s why I mention about make it as something that the user can decide.
