YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨zen@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨youshouldknow@lemmy.world⁩

You can use uBlock Origin to block certain keywords in posts!

Why

If you’re like me, you’re really tired of seeing the lemmy homepage and every community fill up with really bad news from the US.

How

First, open the uBlock Origin dashboard, navigate to My Filters tab and add the appropriate line.

# lemmy.world
# thanks to /u/zkfcfbzr
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Musk|ICE|Vance|slop|Microsoft|Grok|Republican|Democrat|Republicans|GOP|Democrats/i)

# lemmy.zip
lemmy.zip##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Musk|ICE|Vance|slop|Microsoft|Grok|Republican|Democrat|Republicans|GOP|Democrats/i)

Because the Lemmy HTML is generally the same on each instance, the above should work if you change the first part to the Lemmy domain. Then replace the | pipe separated keywords with your own list.

Here are some other things you can do:

# filter comments
# thanks to /u/Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
lemmy.world##article.comment-node:has(div.comment-content:has(p:has-text(/trump/i)))

# filter posts with certain words, with exceptions
# thanks to /u/zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3/i):not(:has-text(/word4|word5|word6/i))

Originally posted a year ago.

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reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
A lot of the Lemmy clients/apps have this feature built in as well.

For example, in mlem.app on ios, you can build a list from

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- kinship@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Voyager has it and I had no idea. Thanks to you I am already taking advantage of the feature…
  
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- AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  And on PieFed, you can either block things by keyword entirely, or just make them Semi-Transparent if you still want to see them in your feed occasionally, but just have it be easier to skip over.
  
  For example, here’s my filter for the words “Trump” and “Musk” turned on and off, where you can see the filter being on makes the post transparent enough that it’s kinda annoying to look at unless you really want to.
  
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  You can also set an expiry date if you only want the filter to work for a certain amount of time.
  
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FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I want to see zero anime and zero furry shit.

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- zen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Be the change you want to see ✨
  
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- lena@gregtech.eu ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s fair, I’m a bit weirder out by furry stuff too. (But of course I think they should be free to express themselves however they wish, and if they want to do that, it doesn’t affect me negatively in any way)
  
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  - FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I don’t care what you do, but I reserve the right to not want to see it.
    
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- zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  My trick: I ended up just blocking 5 or 6 total users and see almost none of it.
  
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  - FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Good idea. I was blocking communities
    
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- JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Sorry, I can only upvote you with head-thumping enthusiasm.
  
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- onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Fucking normies…
  
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- TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Same. I finally managed to get most of it blocked.
  
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Imhotep@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
January 2025, I realize I don’t want to spend the whole year suffering king cunt’s awful rhetoric (it failed), I block his name with ublock. A few months later I forgot about it and I spend an hour trying to figure out why I can’t find my Lemmy post mentioning Trump.

It works really well.

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- zen@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You’ve been living the dream, my friend.
  
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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- zen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.
  
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- chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
  
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- Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
  
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- JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The advantage with filtering keywords, Snot, is that you don’t have to waste any time at all curating communities.
  
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- AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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)
  
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- onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.
  
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- Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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
  
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- Sharkticon@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They want to be victims and complain is the part you are missing.
  
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  - TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Seems like a dramatization
    
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CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You should know, you can cover your ears, close your eyes and start to babble so you can protect yourself from bad news.

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- zen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That’s unfair. I read The Guardian and the Australian Broadcasting Channel every day, and routinely check the Wikipedia Current Events page. I am up to date with the news. But I don’t come to Lemmy to get even more news about the fascist US, and their effects on the world.
  
  Being surrounded by it all day affects my headspace, and I’m aware of that. It’s not weakness that I protect myself.
  
  Now kindly fuck off.
  
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  - SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    So why not just not subscribe to news focused (especially US news focused) communities?
    
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  - CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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- it_depends_man@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s not “bad news”, it’s “negative noise”. Most of the time, reading about any singular instance or event does not actually inform people outside of the US.
  
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  - CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    This is a ridiculous take in my opinion.
    
    I guess if we are following the logic then we should also not study history as it generates a lot of negative noise.
    
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- middlemanSI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Good tip right here
  
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- lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The art of not giving a fuck, which humanity has known for millennia, is pretty effective.
  
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imecth@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
For mbin: fedia.io##article:has(header:has(h2:has-text(/trump/i)))
if you want case sensitivity drop the i: fedia.io##article:has(header:has(h2:has-text(/ICE/)))

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Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Can I use something similar to remove videos with the “Members Only” tag on youtube?

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sonalder@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Could this be done on some nostr clients?

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zen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Thank you to /u/zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world for the original post and filter and /u/Free_Opinions@feddit.uk for the comment filter.

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- Free_Opinions@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Thanks for the credit!
  
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KiwiTB@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just use the built in features of any client

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- zen@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What clients exist for Firefox on a computer? Because I blocked Lemmy on my phone for a good reason (I was browsing it too often).
  
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