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Suggestion: Just like a NSFW tag, it would help to have a Political tag. (lemm.ee)
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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)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The keyword filters help somewhat, but can't really be set as a default, and a lot of stuff gets through.