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If Lemmy let you follow/block websites, which would you follow? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I wish Lemmy let you follow or block entire websites. I’d follow Al Jazeera, France24, 404 Media, and a few local papers from my country so my feed isn’t just US news. I’d probably block most US national outlets.

What sites would you follow or block?

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There are already dozens of decent feed aggregators, and I’m not interested in Lemmy tacking on functionality that’s superfluous to social media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators

Or do you mean follow or block posted links to sites? That functionality already partially exists at the admin level. We can block posts of URLs to specific domains. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4514

There’s already a ticket for per-user URL blocklists: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4689

[–] artiman@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Piefed has this, but you can't follow websites only block them, but I prefer RSS for news I don't get my news from the Fediverse

[–] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

I probably wouldn't.

From the first RSS feeds onwards I have found that anytime I curate a list like this, 6 weeks later I am ignoring the entire thing. Either the individual feeds contained a few items of interest that one time, but basically nothing since, or else there are a lot of interesting items - but they are buried in a tidal wave of uninteresting ones.