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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 Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

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

[+] RxBrad@lemmings.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 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.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 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.

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 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.

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I'll definitely try feeder. Thanks

[–] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

white house, leftist, Ukraine

[+] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd suggest a whitelist approach tbh. For you let's go with


cat
dog
pupperino 
heckin' cute
pet
live laugh love

Then you can ensure nothing that offends your sensibilities, or requires you to consider any viewpoint crosses your feed.

Maybe even add "Karen" so that you can get your 2minutes of hate in.

[–] Bdaman@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] UnsyllabledQuickies@lemmy.world 4 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!

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 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.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 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.

[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 4 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.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or just use the subscribed feed

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even memes are polluted. There's no escape.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 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.

[–] vamp07@lemm.ee 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.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

Mastodon is an entirely different format

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Discovering new communities ?

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 5 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

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 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.