i see a lot of news about australian politics, news of seattle, darmstadt, brazil, ... all places where i don't live, where the posts aren't relevant to me. it would be cool to be able to tag posts/communities with a geographical location so i can easily filter which posts are / aren't probably relevant to me. in one setting in my profile, instead of having to block each community individually (there's hundreds of them at this point)

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i mean i guess it is but if it ends up being 5000 different communities for 5000 different places ... it accumulates and cloggs the feed.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Understandable; over the many years, the community structure has gotten somewhat unkempt and rather unruly, I'll admit. I think the best solution I've seen is regional instances -- if you block seattle.pink and social.seattle.wa.us on mastodon, you can really clear up a lot of the Seattle chatter, but there isn't a regional instance for us to host our communities that you could block easily. Realistically, I'm not sure how much a field would help -- you'd still see away games for the Seattle sports teams even if you muted the Seattle geo-tag, for instance, since they would be posted with the geo-tag for the home team.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

well, if they come here to play at my city, i'd like to watch them :3