Reposting from https://lemmy.world/post/24545370
Some other people had suggestions for other apps (such as Voyager) having built-in keyword filters, feel free to have a look at the original post
Why YSK: Certain topics are stressful and tend to spread all over the site, including to unrelated communities. Blocking communities can be overkill and ineffective, and likewise for blocking individual users.
To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the ‘My filters’ tab, and add this filter:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)
For example:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)
Then apply the changes and reload any open tabs, and all posts which contain any of your filtered words will simply not show up.
You’ll have to change “lemmy.world” at the start to whatever your actual instance is. You can filter as many or as few words as you want, just keep the / at the start, the /i at the end, and separate words with | pipes. What’s actually being filtered is a case-insensitive regex, if you want to get fancy with it.
Here are equivalent filters for reddit and Ars Technica:
reddit.com##div.thing[data-context="listing"]:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)
arstechnica.com##:not(:not(head>title:has-text(/^Ars Technica/))) article:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)
As a disclaimer, I made these myself, and I’m not particularly familiar with creating uBlock Origin filters. There may be better ways to do this. Also the reddit one is specific to old.reddit.com, and the lemmy filter is made to work with the default lemmy.world web UI and may not work on other UIs without tinkering.
Yes, I know I’m just hiding my head in the sand
I can’t afford to do this. Just stick my head in the sand. It sounds wonderful, but for the sake of my friends and family, I need to know these things.
You really don’t. Apart from the core things that you’d hear despite any filter you could possibly implement, most of it is just noise to “flood the zone” as they call it.
Fwiw, Voyager has a filters & blocks section that makes this even easier. Keywords, instances, users, etc. And just as easily reversible if you change your mind.
What an insightful post 🙂
The only one of these I’ve updated since the original is the one for Ars Technica, which is now this:
arstechnica.com##:not(:not(head>title:has-text(/Serving the Technologist/))) article:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi|doge|maga/i)The reason being that ‘Ars Technica’ now appears in the title of articles, while it didn’t originally, which caused the original filter to block out entire articles. ‘Serving the Technologist’ only appears on the homepage so this updated filter will still filter the homepage but display the contents of articles that contain blacklisted words.
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For the less tech savvy, Mutable on iOS/macOS works well too
The app I use already does this.
this didn’t work on firefox + ublock, it blocked every article on the page when a keyword showed up
I’m in firefox + uBlock on lemmy.world too, and it works fine for me - I can see on my current front page 2 posts are being blocked and the rest are showing up. Do you have any other uBlock filters going on? Are you on some page other than the lemmy.world homepage? Are you using the default UI or one of the alternate UIs?
True, but the post title still needs to have text, and hopefully people will be decent enough to accurately describe the content/topic (if only for accessibility reasons). If someone is doing this all the time to circumvent people’s personal block lists, they themselves will likely get blocked 👀
yea, sorry, it’s a pretty neat feature. I tend to be pesimist and see the bad side of the things
