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?
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.
throw in some “musk” too
Can I use this filter without blocking my valuable musk deer, muskox, and civet content?
Thanks! But Summit doesn’t seem to have this feature.
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.
I’d love that but I only have those prefs?
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.
Thank you so much!
Works perfectly, sanity restored 😊
No problem!
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.
I might be blind but no see of ‘look and feel’, beforehand it’s this menu:
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:
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!
One thing you might do that would address the broader issue is submit news that isn’t about Trump. I mean, so far, this is the only post you’ve submitted. You want to see news about something else, someone has to submit it. It won’t submit itself.
This is the only post I have submitted from db0, check out Valmond@lemmy.world, or remember me from my now dead lemmy.mindoki.
I think it’s kind of lowly to attack my question because of my post history. What does ot have to do with it? Also, just trying to drown out shit with posts is IMO not a viable solution.
So, what to do?
See things you don’t care about and ignore them.
The vast majority of humans are capable of this, and can even do it relatively subconsciously
Assuming you’re on browser and have uBlock Origin installed you can filter out posts based on keywords with a custom filter
lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(/trump/i))
lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(/maga/i))
lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(/republican/i))And so on…
Just note that filters like “ICE” block every post with a word in it that contains those letters. You can prevent false positives by adding spaces on both sides of the word but then it doesn’t trigger if the post title starts or ends with that word. Either way it helps a lot. Half of the threads on my personal front page regularly get filtered out.
Thanks, but my app doesn’t seem to have block words either. Good idea though!
One element of Lemmy that is being underutilised by many people is the ‘together but separate’ nature of this social media.
This is probably due to a lot of the user interfaces, be it desktop or mobile, not prioritising showing a distinction between servers.
The app ‘sync’ is one example that does prioritise this, (although its not been updated for ages so is slowly breaking).
This app allows you to visit each server individually, not just single communities. This means you can spend your time on some of the country specific, or special interest servers where the very ‘reddity’ US politics posting is minimal, if present at all.
So my advice, go explore some specific servers. I don’t know what DB0’s server is like. Just had a quick look, seems like a tonne of bots posting on the local, so maybe not the best example of what I mean.
Try my home instance (aussie.zone) theres a group of regular posters, and while we have an ‘overseas news’ community, it isnt the most popular community on the server, and US stuff is far from the top three of subjects.
Other examples of what I mean are,
Lemmy.NZ Feddit.UK Programming.dev Slrpnk.net
We have the ability to have whole servers dedicated to niche topics, and their different facets, while still being connected to the whole, its quite fantastic.
So go explore different servers, maybe even move to a server that particularly interests you, that way when you can’t do the content on ‘all’ or ‘subscribed’ communities, theres the ‘local’ or ‘favourite’ servers there as well.
Trump is thretening the global order naturally it is a big topic . You should just block communities and users. I for example hate memes and now my feeds are almost free of memes
I’m doing that, kept it as a sort of last resort, I’m blocking like all news and politics and more…
Every time a community posts that crap, I block it.
It only took like a day and I don’t see that stupid BS anymore.
I’m in a different boat because I want global news measured by importance and I think that includes a lot of Trump but your post got me thinking.
I think I’m only / mostly seeing Trump posts in news channels and politics discussion channels.
Do you have examples of channels that you subscribe to that have more Trump posts than you like?
Maybe that shows a pattern, helps other people offer suggestions for different channels or helps hone the rules for the channels you’re a part of.
subscribe to non political subs?
