Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone had a way to filter out news on Lemmy so I can save my mental health and just look unimportant bs posts sometimes.

  • Shadow@lemmy.ca
    151·
    10 hours ago

    Block the communities, or use piefed since it has many more filtering options.

        • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
          3·
          5 hours ago

          I’ve been using piefed for a while, and I didn’t know this.

          Turns out I’ve not been seeing NSFW posts too - I guess I didn’t miss that.

          You’re right, you can hide posts with keywords in the name.

          Additionally, I see you can hide posts from communities with keywords in their name. This means you could hide “politics” without having to block all the politics communities.

          • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zipEnglish
            21·
            5 hours ago

            Indeed, and the “moe” communities is probably another common use case for the communities name filter

            • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
              1·
              3 hours ago

              I feel like blocking such a small word like that would probably cause a number of false positives, causing me to not see some unrelated community that happens to have those three letters in its name.

            • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
              1·
              4 hours ago

              Yeah.

              The politics communities dont fill my heart with joy, and the moe communities are creepy, but if I block those what’s left?

              I spend an unhealthy amount of time doomscrolling the fediverse, but I really dont know why.