I got tired of seeing trump face everywhere and a kind user by the name of SubArcticTundra shared his keyword based block list as images. I wrote them down and am sharing them with anyone else that is tired of constantly seeing USA politics on his feed.
it should work on sync, Connect and eternity since they have keyword based filtering . Voyager , liftoff and jerboa don’t have this feature (yet).
here’s the list in text format for direct use on connect (i didn’t use some of the keywords he shared to minimize collateral damage on actual world news posts that may be interesting ) :
gop, jan, maga, representatives, congress, biden, trump, desantis, far right, alt-right, democrat, democrats, republican, republicans
It may not work 100% of the time but it should drastically decrease the constant spam of political news / trump pictures.
This has worked for me on Mastodon…
GOP Trump Biden conservatives elections voter fraud senate senator house of representatives whitehouse reproductive rights pro-life pro-choice 2nd amendment gun control Marxist MAGA Pelosi climate change Parliament koch murdoch desantis politician fascist Rudy leftis liberal antisem right wing supremac on strike hateful elect liberals republicans democrats republican democrat congress abortion communist socialism socialist capitalism capitalist fascism vax global warming ukrain covid proud boy cops police defund minimum wage billionaire the government injustice human rights climate crisis democracy private healthcare public healthcare labor contract on strikeIt’s a bit overkill and may likely block international news too, but seeing the first comment you got i understand why you don’t want to deal with any of that shit. Thanks for sharing it.
I’m cool blocking international arguing over politics, too.
The ol’ head in the sand approach
I moved to RSS for overall news, so it’s helped to not have to be so careful with keyword based blocklists and keyword based community blocklists. I think that’s been one of the better things to come from this reddit event where I’ve moved towards rss over social media driven news posting.
Am not interested in international news per say but I’d like to stay up to date to what’s happening without any particular event taking most of coverage over the others like with Ukraine.
That’s nice thing about rss too. With Feeder on Android it has blocking filters to apply the same keyword based filters. Useful if you have a broad rss source that pulls from various sources and find some sources useless. And there’s categories you can set to separate things out so there’s like tech news, game news, international news, economy, etc. And with compact view it looks like a traditional social media subscription feed, and I find myself actually reading the articles with the comments not being the draw with none to begin with.
I found rss has been the best way to stay up to date over user curated articles that itself has its own biases in what they choose to submit. Just seeing the list of news from even one source without some voting or submission based algorithm at play kind of showed how much people submit the most clickbait or attention grabbing articles to try to get karma. Especially some instances depending on how politically driven they are to push their agenda to everyone. So rss has seemed preferable for a very broad look to see what’s going on with current events. Has been the best delivery system I’ve found on the internet so far with more a time of published based feed than a curated algorithm of social media.
I’ll definitely try feeder. Thanks
white house, leftist, Ukraine
Not sure if you’re calling me out for blocking words you disapprove of, or for me misspelling them.
(On Mastodon, at least, “leftis” as a not-whole-word keyword blocks “leftist”, “leftism”, and “leftists”; along with “anti-leftist”, etc etc etc)
Was only pointing out the misspellings, but “leftis” is a clever way to hit all of those, I agree. Still, “white house” is not one word, and “Ukraine” has an “e” at the end (though, I suspect that follows the “leftis” formula). Downvote all you want, though. 😅
Honestly , your comment felt more like a "why you’re blocking these keywords. You must not block them " or "look he’s blocking leftist and Ukraine he must be right winger " attitude, which isn’t outlandish if you see some of the responses to his comment.
Honestly, I put as many right-winger-blocking terms as I could think of in the list, too. But the fact is, they tend not to rear their ugly heads in any of the nerdy tech or gaming stuff I follow.
There’s also my separate racist/etc blocklist that I simply don’t want to post here and have those terms show up next to my username in searches anywhere…
Downvote all you want, though. 😅
Sorry, chief. Wasn’t me…
Removed by mod
I’m sure it’s been insufferable with all our bullshit. Thanks for helping others avoid our noise.
It never really bothered me till recently. The spam of trump face was literally hogging most of my feed.
It’s going to get worst because next year is a election year. I just block all of the big politics communities.
I like the recent meme pictures but am getting tired of the contstant political chatter
Thank you! I feel like I’ve been playing non-stop whack-a-mole trying to block all the news communities from my feeds!
Welcome. Lemmy became almost unbearable to browse recently and especially these two days. Glad i could find a solution. Again, thanks to the user i mentioned above for the tip and the blocklist. He’s the true hero.
Connect for lemmy instance block has been helpful. Helps clean up communities in one go if you find you don’t like a majority of the communities from an instance and they seem too active populating /c/all and hurting discovery of communities you might be interested in from during a quick browse.
Or just use the subscribed feed
Even memes are polluted. There’s no escape.
If you subscribe to a memes community, you deserve what you get.
Fediverse isn’t active or big enough to sustain subscribed like reddit. Some communities just die out too, so new is a way to discover new communities of interest.
I have never understood why people would like Lemmy and then look at any feed other than subscribed. You might as well use mastodon if just a free flow of posts is your thing. I do like the list of keywords though for those rare occasions I look at the universal feed.
Mastodon is an entirely different format
Few of the communities that I care about have made it to Lemmy and those who have are pretty barren. The All feed is the only way for me to actually use Lemmy
Discovering new communities ?
I only look at subscribed in Lemmy and followed in Masto. I never liked “All” or “Trending” type stuff anywhere.
Or find a local instance.
Lemmy is still too small. It got barely enough (interesting ) content by browsing all
I find I have plenty of content. It’s not the firehose of content on Reddit but that means I am not tempted to doomscroll for hours.
It depends on your instance but yeah. Lemmy content is still mostly interesting stuff.
