Sync has the ability to filter by many criteria.
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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Can you share your filters automatically to others or is it like an individual blocklist?
Not that I could find. But the dev is engaged and open to feature requests.
People usually create their own and use https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim/releases in case they need to switch instances
Thatβs pretty cool. That would help for importing/exporting but Iβm also after the sharing/collaboration aspect.
So basically just a way to export/import community block lists (e.g to a json/csv file) and share them?
I'm mostly asking since I maintain a Lemmy frontend (Tesseract), and that sounds like an easy feature to implement if I understand correctly.
Yea some way to automatically update community maintained block lists. Intent would be to share work done by individuals to benefit everyone.
Ok, cool. I'll add something like that to my roadmap. I'll leave the sharing part up to the users, but I don't think it should be hard to export/import a block list from a text file.
What about a way to check for updates to the blocklist from a URL, e.g. a file on github.
Doable, but the problem lies in distributing the Github link to pull / check.
If I hard code it, that wouldn't work for a lot of people (different people block for different reasons, etc). If it's a user option, you'd have to put the GitHub link in on every device (user settings are only saved locally).
Best case would be an option to either upload a JSON file or enter a URL to pull a JSON file.
I think it would need to be user configurable which list they want to subscribe to, possibly multiple lists. Maybe have categories of block lists.
I think you have it the wrong way, block lists and stuff like that is for sites like Twitter or ideas like mastodon. At least in my experience you have a better time with projects like Lemmy if you pick the communies you like and not the one you do not, and then "live" in your Subscribed feed and just peak at All from time to time
Iβm glad you found what works for you. I am slightly different and like to see new things, but I canβt stand spam and politics and such, so I block a so many things and itβs bothersome to try to stay up on it. So my idea was if there are others like myself and we could join forces to collectively filter out the the noise.