As the title says I want to block posts with specific words. I’m not an American and lately my whole feed is filled with trump/biden and I’m not slightly interested. Thanks in advance.

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
    20·
    8 months ago

    In the app I use (voyager) there is a settings category to allow filtering words, users, communities or even instances from your feed.

    I banished Elon, Musk, and Taylor. The word swift would have been good too but it’s not specific enough to her name.

    • pixelscript@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      8 months ago

      oh cool. now I can block every trash news article that includes phrases like “blasts”, “slams”, “says”, “should”, “could”, “might”, and “need to”.

        • pixelscript@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Particularly in politics and news communities, it indicates a “here is what <vaguely credible source we asked> predicts will happen” article. They’re not all shit by default, but I’m generally not interested in speculation pieces. I only want to know what actions concretely happened, not what some guy anticipates may happen.

          • otp@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            8 months ago

            I could see it being used for quotes (or at least paraphrasings), so I can’t imagine it being all bad

    • dead@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      8 months ago

      When you make a post using the words you banish, does your own post banish after you post it?

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    17·
    8 months ago

    Thunder on android and ios has a keyword filter.

    Like the other guy said, there is no keyword filter built into Lemmy itself, gotta use an app.

  • unhinge@programming.dev
    7·
    8 months ago

    I remember seeing a post on lemmy blocking posts with certain words on firefox (and its derivatives) with ublock origin.

    1. Open My filters tab in ublock origin extension settings.
    2. To block posts with word random on lemmy.ml, add this to text field lemmy.ml##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/random/i"))'. i after random/ matches case insensitively.
  • viking@infosec.pub
    71·
    8 months ago

    I don’t think there is a way to do so through the website front-end. If you use Android, the Sync for Lemmy app has a keyword filter though, it’s amazing to filter out the whole politics spam.

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
    4·
    8 months ago

    You made me look that up in my app since I have the exact same issue. Voyager has a function to do this exactly. You‘re welcome. :)

  • ???@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 months ago

    If you use a browser, sone extensions for parental control allow you to filter out words or replace them with other ines . Helped me a lot to clear my mind.

  • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    8 months ago

    I feel ya. I personally only want English as I can’t understand other languages. Does Lemmy have that option and not an app/community by app/community way of doing it?

  • Saltarello@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Another vote for Voyager which caters for blocking of keywords. And thanks to whoever posted the US politics block list. Can’t upvote as I can no longer see their post.

  • LemonLord@endlesstalk.org
    1·
    8 months ago

    You can filter in Voyager the keywords you don’t want. In my eyes it’s better to block the users directly. There are some social warrior guys here posting their stuff more than once. They seem to be all over, but after all my blocking list is not more than 30 accounts. Not much. But the feed is clean.