I would love to sometimes filter out any and all political posts, I think having this enabled as default on some instances would also be preferred by some users.

I’m a software dev, if it doesn’t require a lot of work I’m happy to make a Pull Request for this feature, but do people want this? Is there anyone I should maybe talk to before starting, or anything I should know?

Edit: I realise it won’t filter out ALL political posts, but even if it only catches half of the stuff, it could make the difference between being flooded with Trump/Musk news and not.

Some new users might turn away before knowing the can set filters etc. (which also aren’t perfect)

  • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Ignoring that it would be impossible to implement on an infinitely-diverse-in-infinite-combinations fediverse, I think we can all agree this “feature” would not be getting many upvotes if people didn’t feel a need (boredom or otherwise) to browse “All”. The real “issue” is not enough “apolitical” content for them (fwiw I disagree but that’s another topic).

    “Stuff in my feed I don’t want to see in my feed” is kind of the exact problem the Fediverse set out to solve. Nothing gets “injected” to a feed here so if you are seeing it, it’s a choice to continue to do so.