Blorp

I'm working on a new filtering engine that I think will be like nothing you've seen yet.

Basic overview:

• There will be a list of filters you can browse
  • E.g. US Politics
• You select the filter list(s) you are interested in
• The filter list will receive updates.
  • Say a new political event happens and a new name floods the news. The list can be updated dynamically to include the new name without you having to do anything.

For those of you that are tech savvy:

• Filter lists will live on GitHub
• You can fork an existing filter list.
• You can create/host your own filter list for other Blorp users.
• You can open pull requests for existing filter lists.
• There will be some tools within Blorp to debug your filter list

Other notes:

• I don't plan on letting you build these filter list from within the app. They are far too complex to edit easily within the app.
• But that complexity means you can do far more than other apps
  • Block a post IF it mentions a US state (e.g. "Texas") AND it mentions "shooting"
  • Block a post IF it mentions "ICE" AND it mentions ("detention" OR "deport")
  • Block a post IF it's by a specific list of users AND it mentions a specific word
• The goal is to create more collaboration between users and make it easier to cut through all the noise on Lemmy and PieFed

How are you currently using filtering in Blorp, Voyager, etc?

• What type of content are you currently trying to block?
• Are your filters very unique to you, or something that could be shared as a list?