Seems like a good reminder as this topic shows up regularly
Some filter is fine, but let’s try to not overdo, shall we?
Filtered out: Slam, slams, slammed.
Removes a lot of non-news “news” posts.
But muh slam death metal =(
Brb, updating my filters.
I don’t use any filting at the moment but I’m going to use these. The sheer amount of uselessness in articles with those titles is immense.
slam,slams,rumor,Rumor,could,might,may,sends a message,sends message,warns,warn,?
I always think of basketball when I hear that
My own list on my main account is quite short
- trump, musk
- Nazi, nazis
I have another account where I don’t have any filters that I open weekly to follow world news
I use blocklists a hell of a lot. This should be a mandatory feature for all social media. Reddit is unbearable without it. Also need to use it on Lemmy quite a bit. On reddit I was at almost 200 words in the filter. Lemmy is also building slowly.
I only have 15 user accounts in my blocked list, although that is because PieFed allows blocking all users from an instance, so I have blocked all from lemmy.ml (and PieFed.social is already defederated from hexbear and lemmygrad).
Having to go through and block so many people individually was just far too much of a pain - I can see why people leave Lemmy over exactly this issue (and then complain about Lemmy over on Reddit for being somehow even more toxic than there - the trick is that once you get the blocklist right then the average interaction is better on the Threadiverse, though truthfully the maximally worst ones are also here as well, extremely unfortunately especially in terms of our growth or rather lack thereof).
It’s incredibly rare for me to block users. It’s all keyword blocks (e.g. Elon). Some domains like dailymail were good to block, but I don’t think Boost lets me do that.
Same but add beans
I posted this about Lemmy a year ago. Please correct any of this that is now outdated:
Regarding the post title: Lemmy itself allows you to block communities, instances, and users. But it does not support filtering by keyword, e.g. filtering out any post with the word “platypus” in the title regardless of where it was posted or by whom. With help from the comments below, here are some third party Lemmy clients that have their own implementation of keyword filtering:
- Boost
- Connect
- Eternity
- Interstellar
- Raccoon
- Summit
- Sync
- Tesseract
- Thunder
- Voyager
Do NOT support keyword filtering:
- Alexandrite
- Jerboa
- Lemmy UI
- mlmym
- Next
- Photon
- Quiblr
Comment anything I have missed or mistakes I made
Lemmy’s user-level “instance block” does not block the instance though, i.e. it blocks neither users nor content from the instance, e.g. Lemmy still pings you if a user from that instance replies to your content in communities located on another instance. It would have been better named as a “community mute” instead, as all it blocks are the communities located on those instances (regardless of the origination of the post itself).
This is very useful to me, thank you
Seems up to date, thank you for sharing
The greatest Lemmy app, Boost, also has filters for comms, instances and words
The best!
Launch that Rocket, baby!
I wish we could do granular filters (apply to title, text body, per community etc). I’m using Tapestry for RSS/Mastodon/Bluesky lately and filtering system in that app pretty much revolutionised my news consumption. On top of the usual filters you mention it’s the little things like removing news pieces with „could” or „ceo says” in the title, every clickbait indicator I can come up with and so on. I might not want to mute Trump related news from Financial Times but I don’t really care what The Verge has to say on politics for example.
There is a way to block a “Domain” - e.g. a URL to a Verge article. I’ve never done it but that is the terminology if you want to poke around to try it.
PieFed also allows custom CSS, although something kike this should probably be added into the base source code.
get Claude to code it up
I would like to have the ability to change words or phrases into other words, like “Trump” into “Dementia Don Diddler”. It’s like filtering, but more fun and amusing to me. Also, I realise I might be the only one that would like that functionality.
A bonafide use for AI, for me, would be hiding every photo of Trump, Musk, and Putin. They are ugly both inside and out, seeing posts or articles with their photos ruins my mood.
Also detecting filter keywords within the image would be nice
I brought that up a couple months ago. There was a little discussion about potential issues, but I don’t think there was any consensus to not do it
Glad that I’m not the only one that wants that type of feature, but that thread makes some good counter points. I didn’t think about the possible abuse cases.
Its such a nice feature.
No matter how thorough you are with your filters the comments are still cancer.
If you don’t see those posts, you don’t see their comments
Yeah I could have been clearer.
I have a few accounts, one of them is filtered AF for when I dont want any more doom for today. No matter how unrelated to end stage capitalism or American politics or Gaza a post is someone in the comments finds a way to bring it up.
I usually report those comments, depending on the community mods might remove them
Eternity app can filter comments, too!
Share your keywords? I’m considering doing this, Lemmy’s ‘Active’ feed is nearly as bad as doomscrolling Twitter was
Thank you!
