2y ago

Tired of constantly seeing USA politics and trump face on your feed ? Here's a keyword based blocklist to get rid of them

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.

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- It'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 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.
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.

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