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As the title says I want to block posts with specific words. I'm not an American and lately my whole feed is filled with trump/biden and I'm not slightly interested. Thanks in advance.

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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

In the app I use (voyager) there is a settings category to allow filtering words, users, communities or even instances from your feed.

I banished Elon, Musk, and Taylor. The word swift would have been good too but it’s not specific enough to her name.

[–] pixelscript@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

oh cool. now I can block every trash news article that includes phrases like "blasts", "slams", "says", "should", "could", "might", and "need to".

[–] wargreymon2023@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago
[–] ElleChaise@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

The dude who repairs clothes must be pissed.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 9 points 7 months ago

Thunder on android and ios has a keyword filter.

Like the other guy said, there is no keyword filter built into Lemmy itself, gotta use an app.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago

Here is a guide I once wrote on how to do that in the Eternity app for Lemmy on Android:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6091026

[–] viking@infosec.pub 4 points 7 months ago

I don't think there is a way to do so through the website front-end. If you use Android, the Sync for Lemmy app has a keyword filter though, it's amazing to filter out the whole politics spam.

[–] unhinge@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

I remember seeing a post on lemmy blocking posts with certain words on firefox (and its derivatives) with ublock origin.

  1. Open My filters tab in ublock origin extension settings.
  2. To block posts with word random on lemmy.ml, add this to text field lemmy.ml##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/random/i"))'. i after random/ matches case insensitively.
[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 points 7 months ago

You made me look that up in my app since I have the exact same issue. Voyager has a function to do this exactly. Youβ€˜re welcome. :)

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sync allows you to filter posts by keyword in settings. Here is my block list: https://lemmy.ml/post/4194272

[–] LemonLord@endlesstalk.org 1 points 6 months ago

You can filter in Voyager the keywords you don't want. In my eyes it's better to block the users directly. There are some social warrior guys here posting their stuff more than once. They seem to be all over, but after all my blocking list is not more than 30 accounts. Not much. But the feed is clean.

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

I feel ya. I personally only want English as I can't understand other languages. Does Lemmy have that option and not an app/community by app/community way of doing it?