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?

  • Perspectivist@feddit.uk
    6·
    6 hours ago

    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.