The advantage with filtering keywords, Snot, is that you don’t have to waste any time at all curating communities.
Comment on YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 3 weeks 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)
onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Just because I don’t want to see certain news doesn’t mean I want to block all news communities. The only way to achieve this is with keyword-based content filtering.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
They want to be victims and complain is the part you are missing.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Seems like a dramatization
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yes I agree the complaints are very often performative.
zen@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.