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))

Originally posted a year ago.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    103·
    5 hours ago

    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.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      27 minutes ago

      Browsing Lemmy by only what you have subscribed to is not as viable as on Reddit because there is generally less content per community.

    • zen@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      19·
      5 hours ago

      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.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
      71·
      5 hours ago

      The advantage with filtering keywords, Snot, is that you don’t have to waste any time at all curating communities.

    • onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works
      51·
      5 hours ago

      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.

    • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.socialEnglish
      31·
      4 hours ago

      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)
    • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca
      33·
      4 hours ago

      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