it would be cool if posts could be geo-tagged (feddit.org)

submitted 4 months ago by gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

36 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] kobra@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wouldn't it make more sense to just have geo-based communities for that? Like 'australian-politics' or 'seattle-news'? The functionality is already there it just isn't being used.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

the point isn't to sub to communities that are physically close to me, but to not get recommendations about locations that are very clearly not relevant to me.

The "all" feed has a lot of those, so it's tedious to browse. But if i stick to subscribed communities, i never find new communities, which is also a problem.