You can use uBlock Origin to block certain keywords in posts!

Why

If you’re like me, you’re really tired of seeing the lemmy homepage and every community fill up with really bad news from the US.

How

First, open the uBlock Origin dashboard, navigate to My Filters tab and add the appropriate line.

# lemmy.world
# thanks to /u/zkfcfbzr
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Musk|ICE|Vance|slop|Microsoft|Grok|Republican|Democrat|Republicans|GOP|Democrats/i)

# lemmy.zip
lemmy.zip##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Musk|ICE|Vance|slop|Microsoft|Grok|Republican|Democrat|Republicans|GOP|Democrats/i)

Because the Lemmy HTML is generally the same on each instance, the above should work if you change the first part to the Lemmy domain. Then replace the | pipe separated keywords with your own list.

Here are some other things you can do:

# filter comments
# thanks to /u/Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
lemmy.world##article.comment-node:has(div.comment-content:has(p:has-text(/trump/i)))

# filter posts with certain words, with exceptions
# thanks to /u/zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3/i):not(:has-text(/word4|word5|word6/i))

Originally posted a year ago.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    6 days ago

    A lot of the Lemmy clients/apps have this feature built in as well.

    For example, in mlem.app on ios, you can build a list from Settings > Safety and Filters > Filters > Keywords (enable).

    • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.socialEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      And on PieFed, you can either block things by keyword entirely, or just make them Semi-Transparent if you still want to see them in your feed occasionally, but just have it be easier to skip over.

      For example, here’s my filter for the words “Trump” and “Musk” turned on and off, where you can see the filter being on makes the post transparent enough that it’s kinda annoying to look at unless you really want to.

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      You can also set an expiry date if you only want the filter to work for a certain amount of time.

  • Imhotep@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 days ago

    January 2025, I realize I don’t want to spend the whole year suffering king cunt’s awful rhetoric (it failed), I block his name with ublock. A few months later I forgot about it and spend an hour trying to figure out why I can’t find my Lemmy post mentioning Trump.

    It works really well.

  • imecth@fedia.io
    3·
    5 days ago

    For mbin: fedia.io##article:has(header:has(h2:has-text(/trump/i))) if you want case sensitivity drop the i: fedia.io##article:has(header:has(h2:has-text(/ICE/)))

  • Dagnet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    Can I use something similar to remove videos with the “Members Only” tag on youtube?

    • zen@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      What clients exist for Firefox on a computer? Because I blocked Lemmy on my phone for a good reason (I was browsing it too often).

  • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
    825·
    6 days ago

    You should know, you can cover your ears, close your eyes and start to babble so you can protect yourself from bad news.

    • zen@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      193·
      6 days ago

      That’s unfair. I read The Guardian and the Australian Broadcasting Channel every day, and routinely check the Wikipedia Current Events page. I am up to date with the news. But I don’t come to Lemmy to get even more news about the fascist US, and their effects on the world.

      Being surrounded by it all day affects my headspace, and I’m aware of that. It’s not weakness that I protect myself.

      Now kindly fuck off.

    • it_depends_man@lemmy.world
      7·
      6 days ago

      It’s not “bad news”, it’s “negative noise”. Most of the time, reading about any singular instance or event does not actually inform people outside of the US.

      • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
        110·
        6 days ago

        This is a ridiculous take in my opinion.

        I guess if we are following the logic then we should also not study history as it generates a lot of negative noise.

        • Apepollo11@lemmy.world
          6·
          6 days ago

          It’s a ridiculous take that the political minutiae of the US is largely meaningless to people outside the US?

          Look, it’s enough for me to know that the USA has made a thinly veiled threat about forcibly taking over Greenland. This is of immediate concern to me.

          I don’t need to know the details of what the American version of Göring said in defence of the American version of the Gestapo this week.

          We have our own domestic nonsense that I’m sure you don’t get inundated with - why would it be so ridiculous for us not to want to get bombarded with yours?

          • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
            19·
            6 days ago

            Have fun with that opinion.

            I actually enjoy learning about what is happening around the world. No matter if it is a genocide, an obviously evil new law to strip away peoples freedoms, or new aide packages being sent to places that need it from countries a lot less wealthy than the USA.

            If anything, I hope the world learns from the fall of America. Although, mostly I’m excited about finally being able to use the metric system.

            • kinship@lemmy.sdf.org
              1·
              5 days ago

              You are being naive. Who tells the story? Do they have an agenda they want to push?
              I can already hear youu typing: “That is why you should check multiple sources, etc”.

              I would reply that is literally impossible to follow all the minitua on everything and would ask if that is a sound strategy to take in life, using all your energy and time on a day trying to know all that is to know in the world; or is best to use your time and energy wisely to better your life and of those around you?

              The US is not the center of the world, you are conditioned of thinking that something is important even if it doesn’t apply tangibly to your life in any impactful way.
              Fascists use that rhetoric to trap people into believing whatever they are trying to sell.

              Ps: I used to think like you, I was thaught it was the best thing to do, be open minded and what not. There is truth in that phrase but the best way to spin a narrative is taking a bit of truth and wraping it in shit