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Tired of constantly seeing USA politics and trump face on your feed ? Here's a keyword based blocklist to get rid of them (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I got tired of seeing trump face everywhere and a kind user by the name of SubArcticTundra shared his keyword based block list as images. I wrote them down and am sharing them with anyone else that is tired of constantly seeing USA politics on his feed.

it should work on sync, Connect and eternity since they have keyword based filtering . Voyager , liftoff and jerboa don't have this feature (yet).

here's the list in text format for direct use on connect (i didn't use some of the keywords he shared to minimize collateral damage on actual world news posts that may be interesting ) :

gop, jan, maga, representatives, congress, biden, trump, desantis, far right, alt-right, democrat, democrats, republican, republicans

It may not work 100% of the time but it should drastically decrease the constant spam of political news / trump pictures.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This has worked for me on Mastodon...

GOP
Trump
Biden
conservatives
elections
voter fraud
senate
senator
house of representatives
whitehouse
reproductive rights
pro-life
pro-choice
2nd amendment
gun control
Marxist
MAGA
Pelosi
climate change
Parliament
koch
murdoch
desantis
politician
fascist
Rudy
leftis
liberal
antisem
right wing
supremac
on strike
hateful
elect
liberals
republicans
democrats
republican
democrat
congress
abortion
communist
socialism
socialist
capitalism
capitalist
fascism
vax
global warming 
ukrain
covid
proud boy
cops
police
defund
minimum wage
billionaire
the government
injustice
human rights
climate crisis
democracy
private healthcare
public healthcare
labor contract
on strike
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's a bit overkill and may likely block international news too, but seeing the first comment you got i understand why you don't want to deal with any of that shit. Thanks for sharing it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm cool blocking international arguing over politics, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The ol' head in the sand approach

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I moved to RSS for overall news, so it's helped to not have to be so careful with keyword based blocklists and keyword based community blocklists. I think that's been one of the better things to come from this reddit event where I've moved towards rss over social media driven news posting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Am not interested in international news per say but I'd like to stay up to date to what's happening without any particular event taking most of coverage over the others like with Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's nice thing about rss too. With Feeder on Android it has blocking filters to apply the same keyword based filters. Useful if you have a broad rss source that pulls from various sources and find some sources useless. And there's categories you can set to separate things out so there's like tech news, game news, international news, economy, etc. And with compact view it looks like a traditional social media subscription feed, and I find myself actually reading the articles with the comments not being the draw with none to begin with.

I found rss has been the best way to stay up to date over user curated articles that itself has its own biases in what they choose to submit. Just seeing the list of news from even one source without some voting or submission based algorithm at play kind of showed how much people submit the most clickbait or attention grabbing articles to try to get karma. Especially some instances depending on how politically driven they are to push their agenda to everyone. So rss has seemed preferable for a very broad look to see what's going on with current events. Has been the best delivery system I've found on the internet so far with more a time of published based feed than a curated algorithm of social media.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'll definitely try feeder. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

white house, leftist, Ukraine

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure if you're calling me out for blocking words you disapprove of, or for me misspelling them.

(On Mastodon, at least, "leftis" as a not-whole-word keyword blocks "leftist", "leftism", and "leftists"; along with "anti-leftist", etc etc etc)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Was only pointing out the misspellings, but "leftis" is a clever way to hit all of those, I agree. Still, "white house" is not one word, and "Ukraine" has an "e" at the end (though, I suspect that follows the "leftis" formula). Downvote all you want, though. 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly , your comment felt more like a "why you're blocking these keywords. You must not block them " or "look he's blocking leftist and Ukraine he must be right winger " attitude, which isn't outlandish if you see some of the responses to his comment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I put as many right-winger-blocking terms as I could think of in the list, too. But the fact is, they tend not to rear their ugly heads in any of the nerdy tech or gaming stuff I follow.

There's also my separate racist/etc blocklist that I simply don't want to post here and have those terms show up next to my username in searches anywhere...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Downvote all you want, though. 😅

Sorry, chief. Wasn't me...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m sure it’s been insufferable with all our bullshit. Thanks for helping others avoid our noise.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It never really bothered me till recently. The spam of trump face was literally hogging most of my feed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's going to get worst because next year is a election year. I just block all of the big politics communities.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you! I feel like I've been playing non-stop whack-a-mole trying to block all the news communities from my feeds!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Welcome. Lemmy became almost unbearable to browse recently and especially these two days. Glad i could find a solution. Again, thanks to the user i mentioned above for the tip and the blocklist. He's the true hero.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Connect for lemmy instance block has been helpful. Helps clean up communities in one go if you find you don't like a majority of the communities from an instance and they seem too active populating /c/all and hurting discovery of communities you might be interested in from during a quick browse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I like the recent meme pictures but am getting tired of the contstant political chatter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or just use the subscribed feed

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even memes are polluted. There's no escape.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

If you subscribe to a memes community, you deserve what you get.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fediverse isn't active or big enough to sustain subscribed like reddit. Some communities just die out too, so new is a way to discover new communities of interest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have never understood why people would like Lemmy and then look at any feed other than subscribed. You might as well use mastodon if just a free flow of posts is your thing. I do like the list of keywords though for those rare occasions I look at the universal feed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Mastodon is an entirely different format

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Few of the communities that I care about have made it to Lemmy and those who have are pretty barren. The All feed is the only way for me to actually use Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Discovering new communities ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I only look at subscribed in Lemmy and followed in Masto. I never liked "All" or "Trending" type stuff anywhere.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or find a local instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy is still too small. It got barely enough (interesting ) content by browsing all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find I have plenty of content. It's not the firehose of content on Reddit but that means I am not tempted to doomscroll for hours.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It depends on your instance but yeah. Lemmy content is still mostly interesting stuff.