i see a lot of news about australian politics, news of seattle, darmstadt, brazil, … all places where i don’t live, where the posts aren’t relevant to me. it would be cool to be able to tag posts/communities with a geographical location so i can easily filter which posts are / aren’t probably relevant to me. in one setting in my profile, instead of having to block each community individually (there’s hundreds of them at this point)
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Another tag for lemmings to ignore besides the language tag.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to just have geo-based communities for that? Like ‘australian-politics’ or ‘seattle-news’? The functionality is already there it just isn’t being used.
the point isn’t to sub to communities that are physically close to me, but to not get recommendations about locations that are very clearly not relevant to me.
The “all” feed has a lot of those, so it’s tedious to browse. But if i stick to subscribed communities, i never find new communities, which is also a problem.
I doubt Lemmy will ever do this - e.g. moderator reports still don’t federate to other instances until the release of v1.0, despite the Rexodus having been several years in the past now. Basically any solution would have to be on top of the software without needing any changes within it. Lemmy puts up full-page advertisements for donations but a lot of that funding goes to running Lemmy.ml and seemingly only very little to actual code development.
Although predictably PieFed already has this functionality, for well over a year now. For one it has hashtags, plus user and post flairs, and for another it has categories of communities where someone can look at e.g. news across all regions, or pick let’s say Europe and then choose from various sub-topics below that. Also, while these Topic areas are defined by the instance admins, the otherwise identical concept of topical Feeds are user-customizeable and even shareable, so someone has likely made what you are looking for already, but if not then you could make it and share with others to benefit from your efforts.
At worst even, say when interacting with existing communities that did not want to actively participate in the process of self-sorting their own content, users have keyword filters that can be used so that you as an end-user can do it entirely on your own. Such community discovery and management concerns are a solved problem on PieFed. I say this full well as someone who had the identical issue you described here when I was on Lemmy, and moving to PieFed solved it for me.
The developers are also extremely receptive to feedback, if you needed still more changes made to the code. I sincerely doubt that you will ever get a solution going using Lemmy - this
identical(edit: general) concept has already been asked for many times over the years - but switching to PieFed should easily take care of it, offering multiple possibilities to make finding the content that you want easier.Lemmy puts up full-page advertisements for donations but a lot of that funding goes to running Lemmy.ml and seemingly only very little to actual code development.
Please stop spreading misinformation. The server for lemmy.ml only costs ~70€ per month which is only 2% of the total donation amount (3336€). With Lemmy we care a lot about writing high-quality and bug-free code as well as offering a good user experience. All of that takes time to do well.
Edit: For your information, only donations via Opencollective pay for lemmy.ml hosting. All other donation methods are exclusively paying for developer salaries.
For your information, only donations via Opencollective pay for lemmy.ml hosting.
Perhaps that could be more clearly stated across the donation platforms?
Lemmy has great potential as a Reddit alternative, but its perceived association with lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad will inherently lead to some users not joining or donating. Emphasizing the distinction between funding for Lemmy and funding for Lemmy.ml would probably lead to an increased number of donations.
Okay I’m adding that to the donation page on join-lemmy.org.
obligatory thank you to the devs! you did a great job so far.
there’s still a lot of features that i’d like to see getting developed, like integration with other fediverse services (mastodon, pixelfed) and such, but i guess that it’s just difficult and just takes a long time to be properly done
also i’m donating like $10/month
Better integration with Mastodon or Pixelfed mainly needs to be done from their side, but it seems those projects are not interested. Are there any specific improvements you would like to see?
Thanks for donating!
Where did you see these posts? On the ALL post feed?
I’m sorry I just really like Seattle and telling people about how great Seattle is.
i mean i guess it is but if it ends up being 5000 different communities for 5000 different places … it accumulates and cloggs the feed.
Understandable; over the many years, the community structure has gotten somewhat unkempt and rather unruly, I’ll admit. I think the best solution I’ve seen is regional instances – if you block seattle.pink and social.seattle.wa.us on mastodon, you can really clear up a lot of the Seattle chatter, but there isn’t a regional instance for us to host our communities that you could block easily. Realistically, I’m not sure how much a field would help – you’d still see away games for the Seattle sports teams even if you muted the Seattle geo-tag, for instance, since they would be posted with the geo-tag for the home team.
well, if they come here to play at my city, i’d like to watch them :3
i propose that each post has a (one or many) geo_tag fields that just link to the canonical wikipedia page about the place, for example,
{ "post_id": 1543535, "geo_tags": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne" ], ... }I’m afraid if the idea is something like that, it won’t allow users to search for content nearby. That’d require some coordinates to calculate distance. If it’s just names, it’s closer to the concept of hashtags. You could as well add #Melbourne in the text (on Mastodon for example). And people would then be able to click on #Melbourne or maybe subscribe to the hashtag once/if that feature is ready on Lemmy.
yeah but hashtags don’t tell you anything about what kind of thing it refers to. Is it a place? Is it a person? Is it an event? It does not provide that structured data that would be useful.
The thing is, a link to a Wikipedia article isn’t structured data either. It could very well link to the article about The Little Mermaid. Or the List of fictional pirates. So in that regard, both approaches are about on the same level. The hashtag just cuts off the unnecessary “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…”
yeah it’s more about having a
Place: ...property, not so much about the link itself.
A lot of your problems woild go away if you stopped browsing by all…
What about privacy tho? If I want people to know what continent I’m on I’ll say so, amirite?
i guess it would be a client-side setting or maybe a property of your account, only known to your server operator.
