With all the noise on lemmy, spam, and political content I have no interest in, the thought occurred to have blocklists similar to adblock lists. Has anyone looked into this before, is it already a thing? Any thoughts on that?
With all the noise on lemmy, spam, and political content I have no interest in, the thought occurred to have blocklists similar to adblock lists. Has anyone looked into this before, is it already a thing? Any thoughts on that?
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.