Use an alternative front-end like Tesseract to filter out specific words on desktop. For mobile, you can use e.g. Voyager or Interstellar to filter out specific words. Unfollow news and politics communities.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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That sounds like a lot of filter words. Thanks for the suggestion though!
Most of political posts are about the US so with only a few keywords you can filter out 80% of the shit news (mine are Trump, Musk, Democrat, Republican).
Then you add some if you want (Israel ? Palestine ? Russia ? Or some of your country specific themes)
The only problem is that if the words are on an image and not title it won’t be filtered. But you can fine tune your blacklist with time by blocking url, users, communities and instances.
That + mostly browsing by subscribed made my lemmy the perfect happy bubble.
Great advice. I'll add a Pro tip: users who post in ways that get around filters - such as pure image posts of text without alternative text - tend to be the same few users. I find that blocking just a few users completely cleaned my feed. They're a minority of users, but they tend to post a lot.
I've found that there's a few common themes to the posts that pop up... not that many. I have like 10-15 at most.
Come and join us on !casualuk@feddit.uk. We provide bottom quality banter there.
Edit to add:
Also, sub to: !cooking_with_fire@feddit.uk, !dadjokes@lemmy.world, !stick@sh.itjust.works, and !youcantparktheremate@feddit.uk. Anytime lemmy is getting you down, just peruse any of these for some politics-free, stress-free content.
20 active communities which are not politics, news, memes or tech
For anyone on dbzer0, or who already have link redirection set up: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35001146
I mainly browse through home page subscriptions. Occasionally I venture to all to find new subs, but I have a lot of subs blocked and keywords blocked for when I do.
Did you subscribe to news and politics communities? I'd recommend to unsubscribe, then. The more you tailor your feed to your interests, the more you're going to get what you're looking for.
Make a community, specify no politics in the rules? Heck, this community excludes US politics in the rules.
And yet somehow we have questions that revolve around US politics geopolitical depressants.
You should definitely report any posts that break the community’s rules
You can report them, they get removed
On mastodon, I used word filters when my feed would be poisoned. Here on Lemmy these do not exist, I believe?
Otherwise I could e.g. block words like Trump and Musk, and only allow them in certain communities. That would make the experience possibly more nice.
I had to move from the mobile web page to an app to get key word filtering.
I read there's an extension or something for word filters or you can use an app.
You can block alot of political content pretty easily through an inbuilt function
If you're into crosswords and word games, there are !crossword@lemmy.world, !nytconnections@lemmy.world, !dailygames@lemmy.zip
Yeah, I had to step away from Lemmy for a while because I was feeling too doomer these days. I need to go sub to more comms I like and use the filter on my app, but I just haven’t yet. For now, I’ve switched to Loops to get my serotonin hit.
I asked a similar question about solutions to this. There is a tags feature coming that I'm really excited for that will really help. This will allow more robust filtering and customisation of your feed.
Some days I just go and block all political and general news communities I see. I usually unblock a few some days later.
I filter out a bunch of words too...but it doesn't work when people have generic titles. Half the meme communities are nothing but political slop despite (some of) their rules saying otherwise.
If Lemmy implemented tags like red had, then we can start flagging stuff so people can filter it.
I use filters in boost app to exclude posts with words, websites that I don't want to see.
This is why Lemmy will never become popular with the mainstream untill these people get their shit together. No sane person wants to browse a feed like mine despite the great lenghts I go attempting to block all politics and rage bait. I can only imagine how bad it is for someone just following the most popular communities and expecting a feed similar to that of Reddit.
If you don't want to leave then I think the second best option is to keep calling out these users poisoning the platform. Just be aware that there is going to be a lot hate coming your way then. This place is filled to the brim with extremists.