Combine that with the fact that most experienced admins can work a lot faster in a CLI compared to GUI, and the fact that a CLI allows you to replicate previous actions with no effort.

To add to that. It would not surprise me if that is the most efficient way of doing things. Let the client handle all of the filtering. Sure it increases traffic, but it reduces server CPU load greatly.

There is an open ticket or multigroups: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818, so you might want to give that a thumbs up to show interest.

There is an open ticket or multigroups: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818, so you might want to give that a thumbs up to show interest.

Had almost the same journey, except I’ve never heard of fark before.