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I can think of 3 easy ways to do it off the top of my head... all using PieFed. (1) Straight-up filtering of keywords, which allows All, None, or Some; (2) user customizable and shareable Feeds, so someone creates a good collection and everyone benefits; (3) the entire model of browsing content using PieFed is different: by offering more than simply Subscribed vs. All, you can do something like not subscribe to any political or news communities (i.e. have your cake), so that it doesn't show up in your Subscribed feed, but then when you want to read that content, it is a click away in the News and Politics Feed (or another similar one of your choice made by you or other users; i.e. eat your cake too).

Using Lemmy though, no not really (not "trivially" I mean). Search for people using ad blocking filters, possibly Ublock. Maybe an app would help? But I don't know which ones and kinda doubt it - I haven't seen such a thing in Voyager or Thunder or Interstellar, etc. Development of the Lemmy codebase, in the highly difficult Rust language, is super slow. Basically if you want something like this, you'd have to code it yourself.

A workaround could be to make several Lemmy alts - one for each type of content you would want to include in your Subscribed feed. Like one could be only uplifting news. Most of the time you'd be looking at the same older content though... without being able to widen your view that would allow bringing in of new content.

Or again, PieFed already has multiple forms of it.

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pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

A workaround could be to make several Lemmy alts - one for each type of content you would want to include in your Subscribed feed. Like one could be only uplifting news. Most of the time you’d be looking at the same older content though… without being able to widen your view that would allow bringing in of new content.

I’m already doing that but I was looking for a collaborative way to build a common browsing experience by filtering out. PieFed’s feeds are great, I love them but they are working by selecting not filtering.

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- OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yes and moreover, feeds work at the community level, not individual posts. Which is a step in the right direction but you may want finer-grain control. Filters may offer more what you are looking for in that case.
  
  I did not mention previously but PieFed also allows you to block all users from a user-specified instance, without requiring admin approval to perform full defederation. It is not perfect but it is very good and e.g. I use it to block Lemmy.ml, which saves me a lot of headaches as most of the worst, most argumentative and unfriendly (and batshit insane) comments I've seen come from there. Lemmy's instance filter is horribly misnamed - it would have much better been called a community muting, as it blocks communities from that insurance but the users remain free to troll you in communities located in other instances, leaving replies, triggering notifications, etc.
  
  The Lemmy apps Sync and Connect can also block all users from an instance.
  
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  - pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    Yes and moreover, feeds work at the community level, not individual posts
    
    Exactly. I guess the threadiverse can fully be oriented to standalone post as it is not by definition microblogging but may be there could be a few functionality that affect the post themselves.
    
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