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)
Many of the Lemmy apps support key word filters. I don’t think we need a political tag so much as filter support as a core Lemmy feature.
Might be potential for a web extension too - RES made Reddit significantly less shit; a Lemmy version of that would be outstanding.
LemmyTools did try, but development stopped a while back, and it’s pretty broken.
The keyword filters help somewhat, but can’t really be set as a default, and a lot of stuff gets through.
Why not both? Filter support would mean you’d have to update your list continuously based on current politicians and depend on certain words being used in the title/body.
A tag would still mean you’d have to depend on OP to select the right one (or perhaps on a mod to assign the right one), but at least the amount of variables would be infinitely less complex