Is it possible to block communities by name? Or is there any workaround to do so?
Specifically I am not interested in .*Moe posts. So whenever a “SomethingMoe” pops up in my feed, I block that community. However, unlike most other communities, they seem to have a never ending source of permutations of their names. This can get very tiring, as blocking them makes the general feed contain less, but never any of these posts.
I guess I could write a script, which blocks any community with the regex /.*[Mm]oe.*/gm and run it periodically. But I am a lazy bugger and neither want to write the script nor run it semi-periodically.
Long run, my thinking is that the best approach is to have something like “user curation lists” and let other users subscribe to them. Could be posts, users, communities or whatever. Then you find something that approximates your preferences, subscribe to “Bob’s community whitelist” and/or “Jim’s community blacklist”, and that reduces some of the human-time load to try to identify interesting content. My understanding is that BlueSky has something vaguely along these lines.
But I think that there are probably more-immediate problems on the Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin developer plates right now, like dealing with the scraper-bots that are severely loading all of the instances that permit anonymous access.
That would be a great feature. I highly dislike the algorithm YouTube & co serve - as it is designed like a tar pit, just to keep you scrolling.
But a Human curated list is basically like getting recommendations from a colleague.