You can use uBlock Origin to block certain keywords in posts!
Why
If you’re like me, you’re really tired of seeing the lemmy homepage and every community fill up with really bad news from the US.
How
First, open the uBlock Origin dashboard, navigate to My Filters tab and add the appropriate line.
# lemmy.world
# thanks to /u/zkfcfbzr
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Musk|ICE|Vance|slop|Microsoft|Grok|Republican|Democrat|Republicans|GOP|Democrats/i)
# lemmy.zip
lemmy.zip##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Musk|ICE|Vance|slop|Microsoft|Grok|Republican|Democrat|Republicans|GOP|Democrats/i)
Because the Lemmy HTML is generally the same on each instance, the above should work if you change the first part to the Lemmy domain. Then replace the | pipe separated keywords with your own list.
Here are some other things you can do:
# filter comments
# thanks to /u/Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
lemmy.world##article.comment-node:has(div.comment-content:has(p:has-text(/trump/i)))
# filter posts with certain words, with exceptions
# thanks to /u/zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3/i):not(:has-text(/word4|word5|word6/i))
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For mbin:
fedia.io##article:has(header:has(h2:has-text(/trump/i)))if you want case sensitivity drop the i:fedia.io##article:has(header:has(h2:has-text(/ICE/)))January 2025, I realize I don’t want to spend the whole year suffering king cunt’s awful rhetoric (it failed), I block his name with ublock. A few months later I forgot about it and spend an hour trying to figure out why I can’t find my Lemmy post mentioning Trump.
It works really well.
You’ve been living the dream, my friend.
Could this be done on some nostr clients?
A lot of the Lemmy clients/apps have this feature built in as well.
For example, in mlem.app on ios, you can build a list from Settings > Safety and Filters > Filters > Keywords (enable).
Voyager has it and I had no idea. Thanks to you I am already taking advantage of the feature…
And on PieFed, you can either block things by keyword entirely, or just make them Semi-Transparent if you still want to see them in your feed occasionally, but just have it be easier to skip over.
For example, here’s my filter for the words “Trump” and “Musk” turned on and off, where you can see the filter being on makes the post transparent enough that it’s kinda annoying to look at unless you really want to.
You can also set an expiry date if you only want the filter to work for a certain amount of time.
I want to see zero anime and zero furry shit.
That’s fair, I’m a bit weirded out by furry stuff too. (But of course I think they should be free to express themselves however they wish, and if they want to do that, it doesn’t affect me negatively in any way)
I don’t care what you do, but I reserve the right to not want to see it.
Amen
My trick: I ended up just blocking 5 or 6 total users and see almost none of it.
Good idea. I was blocking communities
Yeah, that’s what I tried first, but it was basically a game of whack-a-moe.
I don’t like the nuclear option of outright blocking people, but blocking a single person is easier than blocking two dozen communities, and it future proofs it when they continue making new ones.
whack-a-moe
That’s pretty clever
Can’t say it’s original, I definitely stole it from someone else here who had the same grievance.
If you didn’t say anything, I wouldn’t have known, and you could have taken credit
Fucking crying laughing about shared moe trauma and whack a moe
good man
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Be the change you want to see ✨
Sorry, I can only upvote you with head-thumping enthusiasm.
Fucking normies…
Same. I finally managed to get most of it blocked.
I don’t understand why people have such trouble with this. I have curated my own feed of subscribed communities and I already only see stuff I want to see. Is this really that difficult? Don’t want US news? Don’t sub to US-centric news communities (whether in name or not). Don’t want furries? Don’t subscribe to furry communities? Don’t want anime? Don’t subscribe to anime communities. Don’t want politics? Don’t subscribe to political communities. Don’t want memes? Don’t subscribe to meme communities. I genuinely don’t understand why that’s not enough for people.
Just because I don’t want to see certain news doesn’t mean I want to block all news communities. The only way to achieve this is with keyword-based content filtering.
Browsing Lemmy by only what you have subscribed to is not as viable as on Reddit because there is generally less content per community.
Oh I see the disconnect. I primarily browse Lemmy through the all page, because I wanted my subscribe community list to be a small selection of communities I really like. I also want to stay up to date on new communities when they appear.
The advantage with filtering keywords, Snot, is that you don’t have to waste any time at all curating communities.
This doesn’t always work, especially if you:
- View by All/Trending/the equivalent depending on your client/instance
- Follow broad communities (e.g. Shitposting where literally any topic is allowed, but you’d rather just not see more politics)
- Follow communities that have rules against certain content that is sometimes just ignored, especially by new posters (e.g. there might be a “News” community that has a rule called “No U.S. Politics” but people in the U.S. will still post something related to American politics there because they simply didn’t read the rules first)
There are people who don’t have an account/don’t log in every time they visit Lemmy.
Using RSS would be a better option for them than some extension’s filters, though.
I use all/new on Lemmy.
I just block the things and the user that posted it from things I don’t want to see. furry stuff, racist shit, all sports related anything, most ai slop, and people that post the same thing in 30 different places.
the feed gets nicer by the day but there’s always this random furry crap that always pops up. I swear it’s endless
They want to be victims and complain is the part you are missing.
Seems like a dramatization
Yes I agree the complaints are very often performative.
You should know, you can cover your ears, close your eyes and start to babble so you can protect yourself from bad news.
The art of not giving a fuck, which humanity has known for millennia, is pretty effective.
That’s unfair. I read The Guardian and the Australian Broadcasting Channel every day, and routinely check the Wikipedia Current Events page. I am up to date with the news. But I don’t come to Lemmy to get even more news about the fascist US, and their effects on the world.
Being surrounded by it all day affects my headspace, and I’m aware of that. It’s not weakness that I protect myself.
Now kindly fuck off.
So why not just not subscribe to news focused (especially US news focused) communities?
I primarily browse through All, that’s why. Otherwise that would be a pretty good suggestion.
Because it’s easier just to toggle on the keywords US, Trump, ICE and take a break for a few days.
It’s not “bad news”, it’s “negative noise”. Most of the time, reading about any singular instance or event does not actually inform people outside of the US.
This is a ridiculous take in my opinion.
I guess if we are following the logic then we should also not study history as it generates a lot of negative noise.
It’s a ridiculous take that the political minutiae of the US is largely meaningless to people outside the US?
Look, it’s enough for me to know that the USA has made a thinly veiled threat about forcibly taking over Greenland. This is of immediate concern to me.
I don’t need to know the details of what the American version of Göring said in defence of the American version of the Gestapo this week.
We have our own domestic nonsense that I’m sure you don’t get inundated with - why would it be so ridiculous for us not to want to get bombarded with yours?
Have fun with that opinion.
I actually enjoy learning about what is happening around the world. No matter if it is a genocide, an obviously evil new law to strip away peoples freedoms, or new aide packages being sent to places that need it from countries a lot less wealthy than the USA.
If anything, I hope the world learns from the fall of America. Although, mostly I’m excited about finally being able to use the metric system.
You are being naive. Who tells the story? Do they have an agenda they want to push?
I can already hear youu typing: “That is why you should check multiple sources, etc”.I would reply that is literally impossible to follow all the minitua on everything and would ask if that is a sound strategy to take in life, using all your energy and time on a day trying to know all that is to know in the world; or is best to use your time and energy wisely to better your life and of those around you?
The US is not the center of the world, you are conditioned of thinking that something is important even if it doesn’t apply tangibly to your life in any impactful way.
Fascists use that rhetoric to trap people into believing whatever they are trying to sell.Ps: I used to think like you, I was thaught it was the best thing to do, be open minded and what not. There is truth in that phrase but the best way to spin a narrative is taking a bit of truth and wraping it in shit
Good tip right here
Can I use something similar to remove videos with the “Members Only” tag on youtube?
Thank you to /u/zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world for the original post and filter and /u/Free_Opinions@feddit.uk for the comment filter.
Thanks for the credit!
Just use the built in features of any client
What clients exist for Firefox on a computer? Because I blocked Lemmy on my phone for a good reason (I was browsing it too often).
