Lemmy needs serverside hide features for posts and for communities or I’ll never find real interesting communities hiding on the 10th page of top feeds. This lack of functionality could cause the top feeds to stay trash permanently and drive away users. Especially when new apps are constantly appearing, client side hides are more or less useless as I switch between apps.
Reddit post hide features are fairly performant because they quietly expire after some period of time. They stay in your “hidden” list but actually will start showing in the results again if somehow that content is still visible. You can see this on super slow or abandoned subreddits if you hide every and come back a month later.
Reddit community blocking features have always sucked with the serverside limit of 100. Seems even more dire in Lemmy when the same shitposting communities spring up on different hosts
Okay. I’ve been on the internet since 1998. Porn was the reason it existed then. Then MySpace. Then live journal. Then a lot after. Until. DIGG. Then dig did it’s thing. It failed. Found Reddit. Now it fell into the field of what DIGG did. And now.
Maybe. Just maybe. We will find a better option. Obviously kiddie diddles will need to be stopped in its tracks. But. I hope, in time, we can be back to where we were.
Adoption is important