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👋 Does anyone from my pod mind if I shadow ban all reddit_.* feeds coming from @dendiz's pod (yarn.dendiz.xyz)? This will filter them out of my pod's Discover view. I want to do this for two reasons:
- Its clogging it up (frequent, looks like automated mirror of Reddit posts)
- I _actually_ block Reddit on my network so this doesn't work for me anyway
Any objections? 🤔 (Sorry @dendiz -- if/when you see this, I need to show you how to stand up your own Feeds service and maybe even write your own Feeds that pull sources from say Reddit, there's an advantage to doing this, they automatically get categorised).
👋 Does anyone from my pod mind if I shadow ban all reddit_.* feeds coming from @dendiz's pod (yarn.dendiz.xyz)? This will filter them out of my pod's Discover view. I want to do this for two reasons:
- Its clogging it up (frequent, looks like automated mirror of Reddit posts)
- I _actually_ block Reddit on my network so this doesn't work for me anyway
Any objections? 🤔 (Sorry @dendiz -- if/when you see this, I need to show you how to stand up your own Feeds service and maybe even write your own Feeds that pull sources from say Reddit, there's an advantage to doing this, they automatically get categorised).
@prologic I would like to have that for my pod as well.
Maybe we could have a filter based on the new type= so RSS and bot can be ignored?
@darch Agreed and that section of code needs to be refactored to use the new FredType(s)
@darch Agreed and that section of code needs to be refactored to use the new FredType(s)
@dendiz Unfoetunately you can't set Feed Type on personas (yet) but we should probably add that...
How are you generating these posts now?
@dendiz Unfoetunately you can't set Feed Type on personas (yet) but we should probably add that...
How are you generating these posts now?
@dendiz Ahh no need to stop your script(s) -- I already shadow banned them for my pod, as it was cluttering up my pod's "Discover" view 😅 -- So... If these are just "real" user accounts on your Pod and you're just scripting (via Python) against the API I _think_ this is fine. I can only see one way out of this mess in terms of automating the process, that is to add a User Setting / Fee Setting that lets you define the type of feed, one of (currently) rss or bot. Does this sound reasonable to you? The only problem I see though is I can see this happening again due to lack of documentation or just whatever, so I'm kind of wondering how to make the process of "automated feeds" even easier and more obvious without cluttering up views intended not to have bots and automated feeds? 🤔
@dendiz Ahh no need to stop your script(s) -- I already shadow banned them for my pod, as it was cluttering up my pod's "Discover" view 😅 -- So... If these are just "real" user accounts on your Pod and you're just scripting (via Python) against the API I _think_ this is fine. I can only see one way out of this mess in terms of automating the process, that is to add a User Setting / Fee Setting that lets you define the type of feed, one of (currently) rss or bot. Does this sound reasonable to you? The only problem I see though is I can see this happening again due to lack of documentation or just whatever, so I'm kind of wondering how to make the process of "automated feeds" even easier and more obvious without cluttering up views intended not to have bots and automated feeds? 🤔
@dendiz I _think_ its probably fine to just add the option to "declare" a FeedType on User Accounts on pods and Feeds (personas) -- And just let the community deal with this. I I add this feature today/tomorrow for example, would you update your feeds appropriately? 😅 It would basically mean I can remove the "shadow ban" (on my pod) and let the software deal with the "categorisation" automatically.
@dendiz I _think_ its probably fine to just add the option to "declare" a FeedType on User Accounts on pods and Feeds (personas) -- And just let the community deal with this. I I add this feature today/tomorrow for example, would you update your feeds appropriately? 😅 It would basically mean I can remove the "shadow ban" (on my pod) and let the software deal with the "categorisation" automatically.