It would be great if we had a way to mark images/videos/links on a post as a spoiler.
Right now the closest thing to this is to mark them as NSFW or similar.
Hey, wanted to follow up on this and let you know that I finished this up and it is now live. Community mods, when they are making or editing the post flairs in their communities, can toggle whether a post flair should blur the content or not. So, as a concrete example, I created a flair called Spoiler in !anime@ani.social, and if a post is tagged with that, then the images will be blurred.
Right now, this feature only works on piefed because lemmy doesn’t support post flairs at all. Additionally, there are some complications about post flairs that crop up when a community’s home instance is a lemmy instance. Basically, lemmy doesn’t federate out post flair at all. So, even if I am assigning post flair from piefed.social, it doesn’t federate out to other piefed instances because it isn’t federated out by the community’s home lemmy instance.
This is high on my wish list as well. I might take a crack at this when I get a chance. From looking over the templates, I don’t think it’s too bad for a piefed-only version, but it would be my first time messing with the database structure for piefed and the stakes are higher than tweaking css or an html template.
In essence, it would just need to create a label that causes post images to blur (like nsfw or nsfl posts do depending on your settings). Then, when you go to create a post, it would be a box you tick, just like creating an nsfw post.
Because of federation, it would be nice if a piefed community mod could assign it to posts that federate in from platforms that don’t support it. However, much like post flair, that would not federate out to other piefed instances if the community home instance isn’t piefed.
Lemmy will support flair quite soon, they have a PR for it that is compatible with PieFed.
IMO flair would work perfectly for this.
I think the thing that makes spoiler flair “special” is that it is intended to obscure the content. I have made flair for the communities I mod that are called “spoiler” but without the effect of blurring images for example, it isn’t really functioning like a normal spoiler tag would.
The use case for this is usually for entertainment-oriented things. For example, a community focused on a show like The Great British Bakeoff might want to have lots of memes/posts about the show and who got eliminated each week. However, if none of those meme images are obscured, then it spoils people that haven’t yet gotten to watch the episode. So, ideally, the spoiler flair on a post would blur the image until clicked on, just like the nsfw/nsfl blurring option now.
If we don’t want to make an additional attribute alongside nsfw/nsfl, then perhaps there can be special behavior for post flair named spoiler?
Looking through the issue list on Codeberg, I don’t see an issue for this yet, so I will go ahead and make one.
I quite like the idea of adding a blur behavior to flair named ‘Spoiler’ although that only works in English.
Perhaps in the communite management where flair is set up, flair needs an extra setting so that any flair can blur a post!
Not just posts, I wish I could mark comments as spoilers as well.
Yeah, the widely supported method is to use spoiler tags
like this
Insert spoiler here
Otherwise, some applications (like Eternity) support spoiler tags >!that are written like this!<
The first method is useful as collapsible formatting, but I prefer the second method in terms of appearance… It’s just not supported very well across applications/instances.
