Is there a way to filter news on lemmy

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• Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Block the communities, or use piefed since it has many more filtering options.

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  • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Such as?

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    • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Built-in keywords filter

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So firstly, you’re gonna have to block communities left right and centre. Any news post – block the community.

  Secondly, some apps let you institute keyword filters. Here are my keywords:

  American
  EU
  Europe
  ICE
  Trump
  US
  conservative
  conservatives
  democratic
  democrats
  elon
  federal
  gop
  jd
  musk
  republican
  republicans
  senate```
  
  I wish lemmy supported collaborative blocklists.
  

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unsubscribe from any news or political communities.

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• mystrawberrymind@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe make two accounts? One for news and one for fun.

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• Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you still want to see news sometime, just subscribe to everything silly you want to see and only scroll on your home (subscribed) feed.

  Don’t go on all unless you want to doom.

  Or use piefed when the same strategy but use the dedicated feeds to sometimes explore news or other subjects.

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t look at “all”, just “subscribed”, then subscribe to things you want to see.

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• RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you have an android, “Thunder for Lemmy” can filter based on keywords. I very much prefer the app over using my laptop and a browser.

  apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/…/com.hjiangsu.thunder

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• BootLoop@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Aggressively block every community that has to do with news or has news posted to it. Then, if you’re on a mobile app that supports keyword filtering, aggressively filter out every word of news you don’t want to see. Then aggressively block users if they post or comment news you don’t want to see. After doing that for a few weeks or months you’ll start to see a normal newsfeed. But Lemmy is nearly unusable without it.

  This is the strategy I use to avoid contact with a people group from a specific shithole country and it seems to work decent. Although there’s always posts that sneak through the cracks.

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  • murmelade@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This has been my strategy too. Over time my /all feed has become quite fantastic!

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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Here on MULTIVERSE there’s a user settings field that lets you hide posts in communities with certain words in the name. Just put “news” in and you won’t see any communities with news in the name. You can also block individual communities.

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• birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Put in some block words and block some communities. On Voyager, you can do that pretty easily.

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• QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Lemmy really needs tags. Even without a tagging system like reddit a “NSFW” but for politics would help LOADS

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• Berttheduck@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m using boost, you can add filters to everything you’ve subscribed to.

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• mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For more specific filtering, rather than an entire community, on Android i use Voyagers, which allows you to filter out specific keywords. On desktop I self-host Tesseract, which I think has the same functionality.

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