Please could you add a toggle to filter out posts by new accounts? My feed often contains low-effort links to news articles, always posted by new accounts. I’ve filtered out the users, but they just get new accounts on other instances to continue.

Please comment if you’d also like this feature added!

(Edited to add screenshots of new accounts, and my blocklist containing another low effort user)

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
    81·
    11 days ago

    Not sure if this is a productive solution.

    You’d just end up with the exact same posts, but now coming from accounts that are x days/weeks/months old.

    Don’t get me wrong, spam and low effort are absolutely an issue, but I’m not sure how this would fix it.

    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      I mean I could see it, obviously moderators wouldn’t use it. Idea is of course is bad actors will get banned or bored after a certain amount of time. Of course if it’s not basing it on amount of posts or some level of activity, then that may just cause trolls to bulk produce accounts, and start using them as they hit a certain age.

      When you do it by activity, then you run into the side problem. IE say someone is introduced to lemmy because there’s a community focused on a specific topic they need help on. People create an account, post for help… but get no replies because obviously they haven’t hit the activity threshold so, they effectively start out shadowbanned. They assume the lack of responses is because the communities aren’t active and don’t stick around long enough to figure it out.

      • shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Good point about the unintended consequences for genuine new accounts, and how spammers will find another way to spam. I guess that’s why a toggle for filtering new accounts would allow the end user to decide what they want to see.

        • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          Yeah I don’t oppose the toggles, just seeing the unintended consequence. IE if most users disable accounts under 1 week old… then most new users will think no one looks at their posts… and give up, before they have a chance to learn that’s what’s going on. It’s kind of the fear because it’s not those who use the setting that actually see the negative consiquence, besides the possibility of no growth in the platform as a whole (due to people leaving discouraged).

  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    4·
    10 days ago

    Maybe the better solution is just to change your sorting method? Maybe “New Comments” would be good here, or “Active”