Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone had a way to filter out news on Lemmy so I can save my mental health and just look unimportant bs posts sometimes.
So firstly, you’re gonna have to block communities left right and centre. Any news post – block the community.
Secondly, some apps let you institute keyword filters. Here are my keywords:
American EU Europe ICE Trump US conservative conservatives democratic democrats elon federal gop jd musk republican republicans senateI wish lemmy supported collaborative blocklists.
Lemmy really needs tags. Even without a tagging system like reddit a “NSFW” but for politics would help LOADS
Aggressively block every community that has to do with news or has news posted to it. Then, if you’re on a mobile app that supports keyword filtering, aggressively filter out every word of news you don’t want to see. Then aggressively block users if they post or comment news you don’t want to see. After doing that for a few weeks or months you’ll start to see a normal newsfeed. But Lemmy is nearly unusable without it.
This is the strategy I use to avoid contact with a people group from a specific shithole country and it seems to work decent. Although there’s always posts that sneak through the cracks.
This has been my strategy too. Over time my /all feed has become quite fantastic!
If you have an android, “Thunder for Lemmy” can filter based on keywords. I very much prefer the app over using my laptop and a browser.
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.hjiangsu.thunder
Block the communities, or use piefed since it has many more filtering options.
Filtering options such as?
Built-in keywords filter
I have that on Lemmy too. I can put keywords to filter.
I’ve been using piefed for a while, and I didn’t know this.
Turns out I’ve not been seeing NSFW posts too - I guess I didn’t miss that.
You’re right, you can hide posts with keywords in the name.
Additionally, I see you can hide posts from communities with keywords in their name. This means you could hide “politics” without having to block all the politics communities.
Indeed, and the “moe” communities is probably another common use case for the communities name filter
I feel like blocking such a small word like that would probably cause a number of false positives, causing me to not see some unrelated community that happens to have those three letters in its name.
Yeah.
The politics communities dont fill my heart with joy, and the moe communities are creepy, but if I block those what’s left?
I spend an unhealthy amount of time doomscrolling the fediverse, but I really dont know why.
Unsubscribe from any news or political communities.
Maybe make two accounts? One for news and one for fun.
Put in some block words and block some communities. On Voyager, you can do that pretty easily.
Like someone else said: Block the news and politics communities if you like to browse /all. You can always unblock them later.
It was with heavy heart but I also blocked
silence7@slrpnk.net. Nothing against them, and they post nothing but quality material in what I fully believe to be good faith, but they’re just…too much. The only reason I had to block them individually is they post in more than just news/politics communities but never goes off-brand and only posts news/politics/“everything is a bummer” things. There’s probably a few other people like that, but shouldn’t be many.That should just leave you with the few oddball posts where it’s just the people that don’t follow the no news/politics rules.
I’m using boost, you can add filters to everything you’ve subscribed to.
For more specific filtering, rather than an entire community, on Android i use Voyagers, which allows you to filter out specific keywords. On desktop I self-host Tesseract, which I think has the same functionality.
