Block US within Lemmy?
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Unfortunate downside is you will miss other posts from a community, and US is always bound to show up in unrelated communities. I especially remember, albeit in Reddit, a photo of the now-president came out, and was everywhere. The damn gaming community had it posted. Like, wtf? The same one, everywhere. Not Lemmy, of course, but still. If there was a list anywhere of ones I could safely block without much side effects. Not even necessarily politics, but some may be specific to places I do not live in
Focus on users as well. Not that many people care enough to come post articles on here about Trump or whatever.
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Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!
Start with this one.
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Block the word "Trump" and block communities you don't like. It's remarkably effective.
As someone from the US blocking "Trump" and "Musk" are vital for sanity.
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I almost never see US politics. This is because I browse by "subscribed".
Same here. Lemmy is almost unusable if I browse by all.
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careful, you might upset an american.
Nah we're trying to get away from it, too.
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Nah we're trying to get away from it, too.
As an American I fully agree. I've completely had it with our politics infesting everything, everywhere, all the time. For everyone's sanity it needs to stop. More communities need to have and enforce a "No US Politics" rule. No Trump, no Elon, no AOC, no Bernie, no State Senator from bumblefuck Alabama or Los Angeles, California. None of it. Just.Fucking.Stop.Already.
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Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!
Some clients have an option for blocking keywords. Browsing by subscribed comms is also useful. I only have a handful of comms that allow US politics content that show up on my feed.
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Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!
grass is a good idea
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Nah we're trying to get away from it, too.
why don't you go to another country?
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why don't you go to another country?
Simple to say, not so simple to do. I'd love to honestly.
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I almost never see US politics. This is because I browse by "subscribed".
Same. I would have left long ago if that was not for that setting and without a careful selection of whatever community I subscribe to
My only blocked content is a few people who I can't be bothered reading again. I also have two words blocked: Trump, Musk just to make sire 99.9% of the shittiest content is filtered out.
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Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!
lemmy.today##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/trump/i"))Add that to your adblock custom filters and create a new one for every keyword you want to block. If you start blocking entire communities that post about U.S. politics, you’re going to kill your feed completely - I’ve tried that already.
Keep in mind that these filters apply even when the keyword is part of another word, so if you filter the term “ice,” it’ll also block titles that mention “police.” You can get around this by adding spaces on both sides of the word.
Also, the instance in front of the filter needs to match the one you’re on, so in my case the filter is:
feddit.uk##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/trump/i")) -
I almost never see US politics. This is because I browse by "subscribed".
you mean the insane amount of trump memes are just an illusion?
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you mean the insane amount of trump memes are just an illusion?
(... as I look at my subscribed communities...) What Trump memes?
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lemmy.today##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/trump/i"))Add that to your adblock custom filters and create a new one for every keyword you want to block. If you start blocking entire communities that post about U.S. politics, you’re going to kill your feed completely - I’ve tried that already.
Keep in mind that these filters apply even when the keyword is part of another word, so if you filter the term “ice,” it’ll also block titles that mention “police.” You can get around this by adding spaces on both sides of the word.
Also, the instance in front of the filter needs to match the one you’re on, so in my case the filter is:
feddit.uk##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/trump/i"))I'm more of a Jerboa user, not really web. But thanks anyway!
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grass is a good idea
Indeed. Sometimws I do feel like I just wanna go "fuck technology" and touch some grass instead. Disconnecting more is good, actually. So, yeah, grass is often better than Lemmy (for me at least).
I do be comming back here, though. Addicted to Lemmy, lol. Or to any source of entertainment, I guess. Something to fill my time
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Some clients have an option for blocking keywords. Browsing by subscribed comms is also useful. I only have a handful of comms that allow US politics content that show up on my feed.
I like Jerboa for its simplicity, but it lacks keyword blocking. I also don't particularly have any community I'd like to follow. I just see what's popular. All the more reason to leave Lemmy, take up grass-touching instead
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Focus on users as well. Not that many people care enough to come post articles on here about Trump or whatever.
Wish there were topics or categories, such that we could block that instead. Would make it easier
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Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I use PieFed. Filter lists are one feature and here I am commenting on user/moderator QoL feature anemic Lemmy. I see absolutely nothing about US politics unless the title doesn't mention what I've blacklisted. Still cuts down on almost all of it except meme communities. I try to join meme communities not hosted on American centric instances instead.
A little bit is okay. I just don't want US centric posts to be the majority of what I see as a Canadian. It's not my country.
I use FreshRSS for news/international news and my mental health is better for it since I don't look at it constantly like my forums addiction.
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careful, you might upset an american.
Let'em cope.
Seriously, though, they must comprehend that one might not want to be bombarded with their news and politics. I doubt they'd enjoy every other post being about Honduras or wherever, and their president and news and politics, and everything centric to a country they don't particularly care about
