Regarding the post title: Lemmy itself allows you to block communities, instances, and users. But it does not support filtering by keyword, e.g. filtering out any post with the word “platypus” in the title regardless of where it was posted or by whom. With help from the comments below, here are some third party Lemmy clients that have their own implementation of keyword filtering:
- Eternity
- Raccoon
- Summit
- Tesseract
- Thunder
- Voyager
Do NOT support keyword filtering:
- Alexandrite
- Lemmy UI
- mlmym
- Next
- Photon
Comment anything I have missed or mistakes I made
Ah man I love Voyager with keyword blocks
Definitely cool to be able to hide some topics
Piefed has that feature too
Wait there are places that exist outside of the US?
That should really be a server side feature instead of client side
Piefed is leading the way
Do you know if PieFed allows user-blocking of instances? Like allow someone to mention a community name such as firefox@lemmy.ml while blocking someone with a user account from lemmy.ml?
Can you share a block list or good filter? I really couldn’t give a rats ass about US politics. I’m using Sync 🤔
I just have Trump/Kamala/Biden/Republican/Democrat … etc as individual filters
Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Russia, Ukraine, Election, Terrorist, Vote (on my alt which is just to scroll and look at animal pics and memes)
An honorable mention I’ve got on my blocklist is “shitlib” filters the hexbears and grads right out.
Many lemmy apps do though. I use the feature on voyager
And will also let you block entire instances, like say hexbear.
Instance blocking has been able on vanilla Lemmy for a while, no need for this at the client level
Instance blocking despite all the promises turns out to be mostly a lie, and has actually gotten weaker with time. Although we were told to wait and then this feature would solve our personal defederation needs, the opposite turned out to be the case. On 0.19.3 it at least used to prevent notifications (confusingly enough), then on 0.19.5 it no longer does so.
I still see every comment, they can reply to me, I can reply to them, and the only thing it ends up doing is hide communities - including auto-name-expansion with the exclamation mark. I wanted an actual “block” of an “instance”, but apparently I must move to another instance to get that:-(.
I’ll never understand people who choose to live in ignorance
I’ll never understand people who think they can change someone else’s mind on the internet while arguing about religion or politics
You’ve convinced me: I’m converting to Islam and voting for Nader
I think you might have to respect that an anonymous forum on the internet where people regularly bicker and insult each other (atleast on politics posts) may not be everyone’s favourite way to interact with politics and news.
