I got tired of seeing trump face everywhere and a kind user by the name of SubArcticTundra shared his keyword based block list as images. I wrote them down and am sharing them with anyone else that is tired of constantly seeing USA politics on his feed.

it should work on sync, Connect and eternity since they have keyword based filtering . Voyager , liftoff and jerboa don’t have this feature (yet).

here’s the list in text format for direct use on connect (i didn’t use some of the keywords he shared to minimize collateral damage on actual world news posts that may be interesting ) :

gop, jan, maga, representatives, congress, biden, trump, desantis, far right, alt-right, democrat, democrats, republican, republicans

It may not work 100% of the time but it should drastically decrease the constant spam of political news / trump pictures.

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    This has worked for me on Mastodon…

    GOP
    Trump
    Biden
    conservatives
    elections
    voter fraud
    senate
    senator
    house of representatives
    whitehouse
    reproductive rights
    pro-life
    pro-choice
    2nd amendment
    gun control
    Marxist
    MAGA
    Pelosi
    climate change
    Parliament
    koch
    murdoch
    desantis
    politician
    fascist
    Rudy
    leftis
    liberal
    antisem
    right wing
    supremac
    on strike
    hateful
    elect
    liberals
    republicans
    democrats
    republican
    democrat
    congress
    abortion
    communist
    socialism
    socialist
    capitalism
    capitalist
    fascism
    vax
    global warming 
    ukrain
    covid
    proud boy
    cops
    police
    defund
    minimum wage
    billionaire
    the government
    injustice
    human rights
    climate crisis
    democracy
    private healthcare
    public healthcare
    labor contract
    on strike
    
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      It’s a bit overkill and may likely block international news too, but seeing the first comment you got i understand why you don’t want to deal with any of that shit. Thanks for sharing it.

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        I moved to RSS for overall news, so it’s helped to not have to be so careful with keyword based blocklists and keyword based community blocklists. I think that’s been one of the better things to come from this reddit event where I’ve moved towards rss over social media driven news posting.

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          Am not interested in international news per say but I’d like to stay up to date to what’s happening without any particular event taking most of coverage over the others like with Ukraine.

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            That’s nice thing about rss too. With Feeder on Android it has blocking filters to apply the same keyword based filters. Useful if you have a broad rss source that pulls from various sources and find some sources useless. And there’s categories you can set to separate things out so there’s like tech news, game news, international news, economy, etc. And with compact view it looks like a traditional social media subscription feed, and I find myself actually reading the articles with the comments not being the draw with none to begin with.

            I found rss has been the best way to stay up to date over user curated articles that itself has its own biases in what they choose to submit. Just seeing the list of news from even one source without some voting or submission based algorithm at play kind of showed how much people submit the most clickbait or attention grabbing articles to try to get karma. Especially some instances depending on how politically driven they are to push their agenda to everyone. So rss has seemed preferable for a very broad look to see what’s going on with current events. Has been the best delivery system I’ve found on the internet so far with more a time of published based feed than a curated algorithm of social media.

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        Not sure if you’re calling me out for blocking words you disapprove of, or for me misspelling them.

        (On Mastodon, at least, “leftis” as a not-whole-word keyword blocks “leftist”, “leftism”, and “leftists”; along with “anti-leftist”, etc etc etc)

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          Was only pointing out the misspellings, but “leftis” is a clever way to hit all of those, I agree. Still, “white house” is not one word, and “Ukraine” has an “e” at the end (though, I suspect that follows the “leftis” formula). Downvote all you want, though. 😅

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            Honestly , your comment felt more like a "why you’re blocking these keywords. You must not block them " or "look he’s blocking leftist and Ukraine he must be right winger " attitude, which isn’t outlandish if you see some of the responses to his comment.

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              Honestly, I put as many right-winger-blocking terms as I could think of in the list, too. But the fact is, they tend not to rear their ugly heads in any of the nerdy tech or gaming stuff I follow.

              There’s also my separate racist/etc blocklist that I simply don’t want to post here and have those terms show up next to my username in searches anywhere…

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    I’m sure it’s been insufferable with all our bullshit. Thanks for helping others avoid our noise.

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      Welcome. Lemmy became almost unbearable to browse recently and especially these two days. Glad i could find a solution. Again, thanks to the user i mentioned above for the tip and the blocklist. He’s the true hero.

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      Connect for lemmy instance block has been helpful. Helps clean up communities in one go if you find you don’t like a majority of the communities from an instance and they seem too active populating /c/all and hurting discovery of communities you might be interested in from during a quick browse.

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    It’s going to get worst because next year is a election year. I just block all of the big politics communities.

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    I have never understood why people would like Lemmy and then look at any feed other than subscribed. You might as well use mastodon if just a free flow of posts is your thing. I do like the list of keywords though for those rare occasions I look at the universal feed.