I have a filter on, I block the words "Elon", "Kamala" and "Trump". Furthermore I block politics community. It's not like they are about anything else than US politics anyway.
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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Legitimate question, did you temporarily disable it, or did it just not manage to block this post because those words aren't in the title?
I think they blocked in all and this community is subbed?
I have filters for Trump and Elon and others myself. It seems to be only for the post title because I can still see posts like this. Which I'm okay with by the way. I just don't need all the additional articles specifically featuring them.
Unfortunately, posts that do include the keyword in the text but not in the title, still get through. Case in point, this one.
It's true, it also doesn't block images that have these words, but you filter more than 90% of the posts that you wouldn't want to see.
This problem has already been solved by content filtering. You can make your own filtering system, or you can just use a browser plugin like the famous Make The Internet Great Again which filters out all Trump related News articles.
Thanks, Iโll look into what the Firefox extension community has. For now I figure Iโll go down to the pub, have a pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.
You can also use uBlock origin for that. You just need to make custom filter, and use GPT to figure out exactly what kind of code to write in that box. Different sites call their headlines with different names, so it may require some tweaking.
I am genuinely considering moving away from English language social media altogether. I find my native language media... kind of exhausting, honestly, but it's still better than what the last Trump term triggered, so... maybe? It has the side advantage of countering some of the whole cultural imperialism, because hey, I'll suffer it from US coastal elites, but I desperately need an alternative if it's going to be coming form Elon Musk and Donald Trump, so...
Good luck
I posted a guide last year on how to do it on Eternity for Lemmy:
There are still some news sites that publish an RSS feed, build an aggregator and filter out words you don't like
Thats actually a cool idea, Iโm learning rust these days, and building a personal news feed feels like a doable project with a ton of useful lessons built in. Thanks!
sure. what i did was get a list of common words, remove them from the headlines, and remove the words i didn't care for, then group the news items by 'topic'. most readers/aggregators just iterate the headlines by source. the reason i removed 'trump' from my news feed during his first presidency was because there were wayyyy too many news stories then. i'm sure it will happen again next year. i felt so much more calmer after snipping those headlines out. i just did headlines, you can do article summary/content too but it's much more work especially if you want to parse feeds every minute. The funnest thing is finding out many of the news agencies must not realize their draft articles hit their RSS feed before they are published on their site, you may see odd headlines like "Fat woman gets mad at McDonalds" or something off the wall, then later they write a proper headline when they finish the article.
If you use the Google feed in pixel launcher, add the keywords you want to block.
That was the first thing i did 2016...