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.

      • 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.