Yeah I asked this question about foreign languages, and I think it was the same answer. I don’t speak or read German (as the most common example I’ve seen) so I have to keep blocking various instances that pop up in the newest feed like whack-a-mole. Similar to community-specific subs.
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squiblet@kbin.social 8 months ago
I tend to browse All>New and have also encountered this. Until the new Lemmy release has instance blocking, not much to do but block each community individually. There are also mobile clients that offer instance-level filtering. I’m sure someone finds it interesting (…. I guess) so I wouldn’t request defederation, but I certainly do not need a feed with 18 auto-posted threads about sports events.
Etterra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
squiblet@kbin.social 8 months ago
We could request that bot instance admins use a single user account vs a bunch of different users. That's the problem with fanaticus - they have a bot for every different team - and I don't see why that's necessary. A single bot, like for the HN reposters, means someone can block all the posts with a single action, which would be nice.
HamSwagwich@showeq.com 8 months ago
What if you want some scores and not others though? Then those people couldn’t block the bot. I think that’s the thought process behind that.
Not saying I agree with it, just pointing that out
squiblet@kbin.social 8 months ago
The way to arrange that would be different communities for each team, then people subscribe to the ones they want. It’s also what the sports instance already does.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Its been in for a month now. Why hasn’t it been released?
squiblet@kbin.social 8 months ago
I am not super up on lemmy development, but I assume they're working on the rest of the features for the release, or are busy thinking about communism.
scops@reddthat.com 8 months ago
I remember seeing a Lemmy feature request for hierarchical community tags. I love the idea of being able to, say, allow Game communities but block anything created under the Game -> Racing tag because I am very unlikely to have interest in it. Or in this case, block Sports altogether, that way if someone creates Sports -> American Football -> Carolina Panthers -> Panthers Memes it’s already out of my view and I’m none the wiser.