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.

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      8 hours ago

      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.

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        8 hours ago

        Indeed, and the “moe” communities is probably another common use case for the communities name filter

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          6 hours ago

          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.

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          7 hours ago

          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.