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Hello everyone,

Basically title. At the moment I use the "hide post" feature when I see this kind of posts in generic communities (e.g. [email protected] ), but I was curious to see if anyone had another option, such as maybe a tampermonkey script?

Thank you for your help.

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

You could look into using 3rd party clients to view Lemmy. They often enhance the default behavior with additional features. E.g. Voyager (the one I'm using) has a "keyword filter".

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

Hello,

As mentioned in the title, I would prefer to do this on the default Lemmy UI rather than a third party client

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

There's a github issue requesting this feature.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Looks promising, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a US citizen and I wish I could avoid it.

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

The virus will affect us all... whether directly or indirect.

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

There doesn't seem to be as much overflowing into non political communities here as at reddit where it's just overflowing everywhere I find. I think it's a reflecting of the anxiety many are feeling about the election. Hopefully it dies down in a couple of weeks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It should basically be done after November 6.

Longer if Trump disputes results and drags it out.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

It'll continue until inauguration (January?)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I just block most political comms, I don't see too much of it I would say.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Use the keyword filter. First of all add the last names of the candidates. And also "voting", "election". I'm happy with the amount of posts that remain after that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lemmy-UI current does not have a keyword filter the same way Piefed does. Otherwise I would be happy to use it.

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

I didn't realise there were keyword filters. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are not on the default lemmy-UI, hendrik is on Piefed.

For Lemmy, some alternatives front-ends have filters:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, sorry. You need an (android) app that does this, or PieFed...

It's a great feature, though. I'm not one of the people who get offended/annoyed easily... But I also prefer to consume some content and skip some other things...

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

Voyager on iOS has keyword filters

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

The problem is that many of these content are image-only (titles don't always include names), requiring some kind of extension/userscript that's able to do some kind of OCR or Computer Vision. You can block specific communities or users, but this will also block potentially good threads (not everybody that's posting about politics is necessarily a politics-only user, same goes for communities such as [email protected] that aggregate both political and non-political content).

While there are communities explicitly and specifically focused on politics that can be blocked outright, there's no easy way to block every single political content without some kind of sophisticated client-side AI (which is error-prone).

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

At this stage, I would be happy with being able to filter based on titles alone, no need for OCR.

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

Not sure about default but I'm using Sync and it's got a keyword filter. Using it to block Musk and Trump, made a big difference.

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

Yeah, keyword list would be awesome.

I have a personal bunch of communities as is allowed and occasionally jump to main when I run out of content. Usually see something I regret, often Trumpian, amusing but depressing. Maccas window Trump etc. Will code for relief if it's not too (ironically) political.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

Learn to enjoy it. Get the popcorn out and watch America burn 😎🍿