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Block US within Lemmy? (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 day ago by lemmyknow@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!

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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.ca 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I use PieFed. Filter lists are one feature and here I am commenting on user/moderator QoL feature anemic Lemmy. I see absolutely nothing about US politics unless the title doesn't mention what I've blacklisted. Still cuts down on almost all of it except meme communities. I try to join meme communities not hosted on American centric instances instead.

A little bit is okay. I just don't want US centric posts to be the majority of what I see as a Canadian. It's not my country.

I use FreshRSS for news/international news and my mental health is better for it since I don't look at it constantly like my forums addiction.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Thing with PieFed is it don't really have an app. I found Interstellar to be a bit too complicated, or too feature-heavy? Barely used it, though. I like Jerboa's simplicity. Non-US instances are nice, too. I ended up choosing an American* one, it seems, though I dunno what it got, so I dunno that it's 'Murica-centric

I get some news via short daily podcasts or Wikipedia's homepage. Or Lemmy. Though my podcasts have taken to mentioning the US president rather often this year, which goes to show the US influence on the world. But at least it don't bombard me like Lemmy

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.ca 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Thing with PieFed is it don't really have an app.

There's no dedicated app, true. I find adding piefed.ca as an app via Firefox (Fennec) to be good enough, but there's two issues I have right now. One is can't sort by x amount of time for Top posts in the community although according to their repo that's in the next update, just the front page for now. The other is this comment box. For some reason the top bar of useful tools is missing unless I go to edit the same comment after posting it. Weird. Might be a bug.

Haven't tried Interstellar yet personally.

Anyways, hope your post nets you some useful options. Hadn't considered using Wikipedia for that, maybe I can add it to my RSS feeds too somehow.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

Maybe I'll consider a PieFed account. I might also consider just using neither, given I don't even get that much out of Lemmy itself. I just browse what's popular in what is probably an attempt to occupy time, which I guess could be better spent elsewhere. What would you say are the main differences between PieFed and Lemmy?

As for Wikipedia, not sure if they have an rss. You could also look into Wikinews, their 'news' sister project under Wikimedia. There's probably more activity there over Wikipedia

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

lemmy.today##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/trump/i"))

Add that to your adblock custom filters and create a new one for every keyword you want to block. If you start blocking entire communities that post about U.S. politics, you’re going to kill your feed completely - I’ve tried that already.

Keep in mind that these filters apply even when the keyword is part of another word, so if you filter the term “ice,” it’ll also block titles that mention “police.” You can get around this by adding spaces on both sides of the word.

Also, the instance in front of the filter needs to match the one you’re on, so in my case the filter is:

feddit.uk##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/trump/i"))

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

I'm more of a Jerboa user, not really web. But thanks anyway!

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I almost never see US politics. This is because I browse by "subscribed".

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

Eh, I don't have any community I'm particularly interested in so as to subscribe. I just see what's popular. I guess it's a way to fill time (or waste it)

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 2 points 18 hours ago

Same. I would have left long ago if that was not for that setting and without a careful selection of whatever community I subscribe to ;)

My only blocked content is a few people who I can't be bothered reading again. I also have two words blocked: Trump, Musk just to make sire 99.9% of the shittiest content is filtered out.

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

you mean the insane amount of trump memes are just an illusion?

[–] LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago

(... as I look at my subscribed communities...) What Trump memes?

[–] cloudless@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Same here. Lemmy is almost unusable if I browse by all.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Block the word "Trump" and block communities you don't like. It's remarkably effective.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Wish Jerboa had that. But I've read it is not on their plans, as it is a hack done by others on top of Lemmy, due to a lack of official support from Lemmy itself (not a Lemmy feature, just a workaround by other app developers)

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

But I've read it is not on their plans, as it is a hack done by others on top of Lemmy, due to a lack of official support from Lemmy itself

I assumed it was part of Lemmy. Too bad it isn't integrated into the platform. I hear piefed may have keyword blocking, so maybe that's worth looking into.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

As someone from the US blocking "Trump" and "Musk" are vital for sanity.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US

A very simple method would just be blocking those as you see them.

And then keep blocking them.

It's not exactly difficult, I do it with all the AI and most of the meme communities.

Every once and a while someone makes a new one, but you just block it when you see it.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same, that was my experience browsing "All" as a new Lemmy user... "Wow... that's a lot of furry porn... and gay porn... and gay furry porn..."

Blocking those communities one by one rendered the All feed mostly sensible.

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

LOT of furry porn!

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even good meme communities?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I left /microblogmemes and /political memes

If there's anymore left they're just flying under the radar.

But those are "memes" by the Richard Dawkins original meaning of the term. Not "memes" as in "haha, guys like how stupid I am, don't you think I'm stupid" humor.

Memes aren't just shitty jokes, but thats all that's in the shitty meme communities.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunate downside is you will miss other posts from a community, and US is always bound to show up in unrelated communities. I especially remember, albeit in Reddit, a photo of the now-president came out, and was everywhere. The damn gaming community had it posted. Like, wtf? The same one, everywhere. Not Lemmy, of course, but still. If there was a list anywhere of ones I could safely block without much side effects. Not even necessarily politics, but some may be specific to places I do not live in

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Focus on users as well. Not that many people care enough to come post articles on here about Trump or whatever.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

Wish there were topics or categories, such that we could block that instead. Would make it easier

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

!politics@lemmy.world is exclusively US politics, so you'd want to block that one.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Seems I have already gotten to that one. Thanks anyway!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Some clients have an option for blocking keywords. Browsing by subscribed comms is also useful. I only have a handful of comms that allow US politics content that show up on my feed.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

I like Jerboa for its simplicity, but it lacks keyword blocking. I also don't particularly have any community I'd like to follow. I just see what's popular. All the more reason to leave Lemmy, take up grass-touching instead

❌ Touchscreen ✅ Touch grass

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

careful, you might upset an american.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

Let'em cope.

Seriously, though, they must comprehend that one might not want to be bombarded with their news and politics. I doubt they'd enjoy every other post being about Honduras or wherever, and their president and news and politics, and everything centric to a country they don't particularly care about

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nah we're trying to get away from it, too.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

As an American I fully agree. I've completely had it with our politics infesting everything, everywhere, all the time. For everyone's sanity it needs to stop. More communities need to have and enforce a "No US Politics" rule. No Trump, no Elon, no AOC, no Bernie, no State Senator from bumblefuck Alabama or Los Angeles, California. None of it. Just.Fucking.Stop.Already.

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

why don't you go to another country?

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 points 19 hours ago

Simple to say, not so simple to do. I'd love to honestly.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Start with this one.