this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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Sure; Right now, as I scroll down the main feed of all federated posts sorted by 'hot', I'm still running into dozens of posts I've already interacted with last night and they're taking up valuable screen space. If I could just put them aside or collapse them, it decreases the risk of missing content that's actually novel in the form of "missing trees because the forest got in the way".
Sort of like... imagine if you had an email client where you couldn't mark anything as 'read' or archive anything. It becomes a mixed and disorganized mess where it's hard to spot stuff that you haven't already seen before.
it'd be nice to kinda ... 'dismiss' stuff like that.
I feel like this should be a Lemmy feature request, and not something that every Lemmy client should be implementing individually.
Huh. I didn't even realize it wasn't a lemmy feature because it was present on several other clients (I just like alexandrite more than the others so far with this one exception)
There is a lemmy setting to hide read posts fwiw, but it's probably not exactly what you're looking for. I've been thinking of making a toggle for it more accessible from the feed, but a lemmy feature to hide individual posts like you could on reddit would be nicest.