Why can’t one easily filter the spammy multiple posts from super niche crap-holes?
There is a function to “block community”—are you not using that?
Yes - the crappy, repetitively repetitive posts are crappily repetitive in my selected communities. Quelle fromage!!
It’s most effective to block the instance the bots are coming from. It was either created for spam bots or has open and unmoderated signups. The type of instances that are easily abused by spam bots usually don’t host any sizeable or even active communities.
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Block the super niche crap-holes.
Use an app, such as Thunder for Android, and put some keywords in the filter. No posts with those words will show up again.
Thunder will also allow you to label users. I mostly do this when I block someone so I have a reminder of why I blocked them.
The more you block the crappy instances, communities and users the nicer your feed looks.
I think you can block whatever instances you want.
Personally, I don’t bother. Do this instead:
- Scroll through local or all. Local is your own server and if you want that chummy feeling of, “Oh, it’s this asshole”, local will give it to you (hi, everybody!). All is just everybody with a higher percentage of spam bots.
- Subscribe to any subs that seem interesting.
3) From then on, ONLY read your Subscribed Feed (sometimes called Home).
When you run out of subscribed posts:
- run to settings somewhere and turn on “block subscribed from All” or something, which will filter out any of your subscribed groups from the feed for all.
- Goto 1.
Because you haven’t developed and maintained a good moderation bot for us yet.
Why are you subscribed to super niche crap holes?
I wouldn’t say I am - just a complete lack of sane moderation is the ones I have.
If you’re seeing communities that do not interest you, you’re either subscribed to them or you’re using the All feed and you haven’t blocked them.
