Hi everyone,

I start to feel like in a reddit echo chamber lately, 2/3 of news are about the usa president.

It’s everywhere, and it definitely lowers the quality of posts here on lemmy, IMO.

Is there anything to do to alleviate this, can’t block every outlet without also blocking other info.

Maybe a sitewide thing? Obligation to correctly tag posts?

😓

It also makes it harder to change reader, gotta re-block and filter stuff (even if that’s not enough).

So, what to do?

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    23·
    3 days ago

    I don’t know how common this is, but my client(Voyager) has an option to block keywords (“Trump”, “DOJ”, “ICE”, etc…?)which could be one strategy.

      • alianne@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        I’m on Summit as well and have the option to block keywords.

        Settings > Look and Feel > Post Feed > Filters > Keyword Filters

        Then you can do the same thing under “Post and Comments” (instead of “Post Feed”) if you want even more blocking.

          • anon6789@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 days ago

            Get to the feed setting from the menu here

            And then the settings all the way at the bottom

            Or from here

            Then

            And scroll to the bottom for filters

            Note: it will block other words, so if you block trump and musk, you won’t see things about trumpets or muskrats, at least as of a while back. It was blocking one of my own posts, and I bug reported it, but then was told it’s a pretty basic filter.

          • alianne@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 days ago

            You appear to be in the “Lemmy Web Preferences” section, not “Look and Feel.” Maybe we’re accessing settings from different places somehow: I go to my profile picture in the upper right corner, it pops open a half-menu, and I use the option at the bottom to access my settings.

              • alianne@lemmy.world
                2·
                3 days ago

                That’s the menu you get by clicking the profile icon in the lower right. I’m talking about the one in the upper right:

                • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
                  2·
                  2 days ago

                  Oh man what a UX disaster 😂 thank you so much!

                  I thought that the two same icons did the same thing, maybe it’s I who can’t see properly but having two same icons doing different things… I sure missed that!