I can't afford to do this. Just stick my head in the sand. It sounds wonderful, but for the sake of my friends and family, I need to know these things.
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You could reduce your news consumption by 95%, and you'd still "know these things." There's no avoiding them - trust me, I've tried. Nobody is obligated to consume the sheer volume of news your average Lemmy user currently does. At this point, I'd practically consider it a form of self-harm. The only way to maintain anything remotely resembling a healthy media diet nowadays is by actively limiting your exposure to the overwhelming flood of information.
I've put a filter on the usual suspects directly within Voyager and I still see a crazy amount of it. My page isn't completely full of it like it was, but it is drastically reduced while also letting enough in that I'm still keeping up with it.
I'm constantly contacting my politicians, protesting at every protest, and trying to fight facism every legal way that I can. This sucks, but I can't afford to avoid news because it's a bummer.
Avoiding news and current events is why we have such ignorant people, people not voting, and why we're dealing with this shit in the first place.
I really wish there was a way to consume news in a daily update. This drip feed of often redundant chaos is exhausting.
Maybe newspapers were a good idea..
Well, hats off to you for at least doing something other too than just reading the news.
Everybody's situation is different, everybody's keywords are going to be different
You really don't. Apart from the core things that you'd hear despite any filter you could possibly implement, most of it is just noise to "flood the zone" as they call it.
What an insightful post 🙂
The only one of these I've updated since the original is the one for Ars Technica, which is now this:
arstechnica.com##:not(:not(head>title:has-text(/Serving the Technologist/))) article:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi|doge|maga/i)
The reason being that 'Ars Technica' now appears in the title of articles, while it didn't originally, which caused the original filter to block out entire articles. 'Serving the Technologist' only appears on the homepage so this updated filter will still filter the homepage but display the contents of articles that contain blacklisted words.
Thank you!
And for blocking comments:
feddit.uk##article.comment-node:has(div.comment-content:has(p:has-text(/Trump/i)))
Fwiw, Voyager has a filters & blocks section that makes this even easier. Keywords, instances, users, etc. And just as easily reversible if you change your mind.
Thunder too! Instance/community/user blocks are a Lemmy feature, but keyword blocks are just a client side thing for now. Thunder blocks based on post titles, contents, and links.
Yeah i think you can block EVERYTHING a webpage has with uBlock, the sky is the limit.
Any idea how to make this work with old.lemmy.world? The layout is so much nicer.
old.lemmy.world##div.post:has(div.rank):has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi|maga/i)
Thank you my friend!
How is performance in has-text() these days? Last time I checked it was slow enough that I didn't bother adding it to things like ad blockers because it bogged down websites.
It's quite fast on Lemmy default UI, but that UI is very light. No sure about other front-ends.
The app I use already does this.
So does mine, Voyager, but that doesn't help me at all when I'm using a browser on my PC.
It does not.
Is that actually going to block it from listing on the feed. I think that is what folks want. Its what I would want anyway.
you have convinced me to give it a try
True, but the post title still needs to have text, and hopefully people will be decent enough to accurately describe the content/topic (if only for accessibility reasons). If someone is doing this all the time to circumvent people's personal block lists, they themselves will likely get blocked 👀
People aren't, theres tons of images on bluesky not tagged correctly so they slip through my blacklist, why would it be any different anywhere else on the web?
yea, sorry, it's a pretty neat feature. I tend to be pesimist and see the bad side of the things
this didn't work on firefox + ublock, it blocked every article on the page when a keyword showed up
I'm in firefox + uBlock on lemmy.world too, and it works fine for me - I can see on my current front page 2 posts are being blocked and the rest are showing up. Do you have any other uBlock filters going on? Are you on some page other than the lemmy.world homepage? Are you using the default UI or one of the alternate UIs?
That's surprising
Could you please have a look at this comment? https://lemmy.world/comment/14604445
For the less tech savvy, Mutable on iOS/macOS works well too