Can I block posts about Reddit?
I'm starting to get tired of people talking about Reddit on Lemmy. I personally don't care about Reddit anymore and am not interested in Reddit news.
I already blocked c/reddit that helped. Is there anything else I can do? Is there a way to hide posts that contain a keyword?
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Engage content that you enjoy and ride this out.
Right now lemmy's growth is driven by people pre-emptively leaving reddit even though their choses mobile apps still function. We'll probably see another influx come July.
But for now all we as a seed community can do is engage the other topics we enjoy and build communities that have substance.
Eventually people will join to engage those topics instead of grip reddits demise.
Very good response. To see less complaining about Reddit, make more posts about other things. Lemmy will be what we make it. I have spent two weeks posting into the void with the community I started and I'm finally starting to see engagement. These things take time.
I think this is what a lot of people are missing here. Lot of people asking for specific content, but very few are willing to make it.
Like I used to do some amateur in-depth looks at my college basketball team, but stopped due to just general life stuff and that is would get drowned out by memes about bar graphs. Now, though, there is an audience hungry for it, and it may be something I get back into a little bit.
Doesn't work for lots of useful applications of this feature. I want to avoid movie spoilers, so I had all the major marvel and star wars keywords, names, etc in a block list for my reddit client. I could browse all of reddit and (basically) never run into spoilers. There are also people who want to avoid stress triggers for them to just keep their mental sanity. Like blocking posts about Trump or Musk or Biden. It's not a matter of waiting for some trending topic to boil over.
Interesting! Yea on reddit I blocked all the top karma accounts and maxed out my subreddit blocks to the point I needed to use RES to filter more out.
Never had a need to filter content by keyword but hopefully they do roll that feature out eventually!
It was the same for me on Mastodon, I started regularly using it just as it all kicked off re Twitter. I got really tired of the term ‘bird site’.
After a couple of weeks that all died down. As others have said, ride it out, it won’t take long for people to stop posting about Reddit.
I'm already starting to see mentions of Reddit die down here as posts shift to trying to build this thing up with more content instead of just talking about how bad things are over there.
Ironically, people who have managed to do this would not see your question
Sure but then you'll block your own post...
I'm not sure that you really need to. It's the hot topic of the moment for obvious reasons, but it'll die down soon enough. Just needs a little time.
If you're using Lemmy in a browser, you can block posts that contain certain keywords using uBlock Origin. I made a YSK post about it: https://lemmy.world/post/435133
How do you feel about Digg?
The same way I feel about MySpace
You wish you'd never have switched from Friendster?
Kinda nostalgic?
One of the first things I noticed about the app Connect for Lemmy is that it has a word blacklist. I haven't tried it, but I see it there is settings
Hopefully RES type option comes out for lemmy and kbin.
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If RES devs moved to LES that'd be pretty huge, since RES is probably one of the last things making reddit even worth visiting. Or should it be FES?
RES isn't really necessary because the project is open source. RES was just a set of power settings that the community could contribute directly into the lemmy-ui project.
FES, LES both would work. But I think RES devs quit the project a while ago, so not sure whether they'd be willing to repurpose/fork it for lemmy.
I mean you could just block the two Reddit or three communities ..
The problem is when 50+ communities all start talking about something pointless Trump or Elon said. I want to be able to hide/block posts by keyword, not community.
Must have me confused with someone else. I was just expressing my desire to see RES type functionality come out for lemmy and kbin. Love the functionality it added. Pretty much look for any reason to bring it up for social media.
The Connect for Lemmy app on Android has a filter-out posts by keyword feature
This is SUCH an important feature. I swear… being able to filter out the words “Trump” and “Hannity” have allowed me to continue enjoying Reddit through some very dark times.
I also have a particular phobia which is easily triggered by certain photos. Without filters, I actually struggled to get through a day on Reddit without getting triggered.
My block list on Reddit: Trump Biden MTG Elon tesla
Elon is on mine as well.
No such feature exists yet on the desktop version, but I am sure it's on the wishlist already. Apps might be able to implement this themselves, but I can't say whether any have yet.
Edit: clarified
Mlem on iOS seems to have that feature under Settings > Filters at least!
If it isn't, OP should add it to the issues tracker! Adding things there gives the project leads, plus anyone who is willing to volunteer some time, to know what features people are asking for, and to choose some ready made things right off of the shelf to work on.
The devs have always been pretty helpful and responsive on Lemmy. I imagine that has changed a lot in the last few weeks, but they're basically always checking the issues tracker.
It’ll slow down within a month or two. We’re still kind of right in the middle of all of it right now.
I experienced something really similar when swapping from Twitter to Mastodon; we were all talking about Twitter a lot because a lot of users just came from there.
After a while people stopped meta posting and it went back to normal, and we have little spikes in posts about Twitter when ever musk does something stupid but that’s fine.
Just give it some time. We can swap from one link aggregator to another and instantly act like the other side isn’t on fire
no, but filtering per keyword would be a nice feature
I'd really love to filter "the" - just for fun
I mean scrolling though all and hot I've only seen two posts on reddit, this one and one from the reddit Lemmy, just scroll past them.
I feel you, ever since i came to lemmy its been non stop reddit shit talking.
These are the reddit subs i found if you wanna block them ![email protected] ![email protected] ![email protected] ![email protected]
a lot of prominent posts have been "reddit??". But there are many quality discussions about other topics.
It also seems to be all starwarsmemes can talk about, even lotrmemes (moreso the fact that they won't leave Reddit apparently).
It's not just '2 or 3 subs'.
You see the irony here, right?
Most of it is contained to specific forums, there's just more than one across a few instances, RedditMigration on Kbin is another.
The more time I spend here the more I'm realising blocking communities/magazines is as much a key to a good experience as subscribing to them, of not more.
It'll all die down anyway, to a degree there's just a lot of people here who just arrived from reddit. I'd avoid blocking the word itself as the wave will pass plus it's being used as a comparison in meta threads about features and UI and you might find you want to see those conversations.
100%
While I do consider it important to not isolate one's self too much, we also don't need to subject ourselves to everything, especially when it's having a noticeable negative effect.
I've left the various RedditMigration communities I'd joined and that seems to have handled it.
It will die down soon, once the main migration finishes.
Gonna be another spike in the next week, so probably not soon, but it will die down.
I doubt that. It's not gonna "finish". It's gonna be a slow migration over time as Reddit's quality changes, more people become aware of the feasibility of alternatives, and alternatives becoming more usable (listen, kbin and Lemmy are great, but they have massive UX issues -- even I got very confused by one such issue despite being knowing how this all works).
As long as Reddit makes blunders or protests continue, there'll be news about Reddit on this site.
I agree with OP though. There's a dozen communities for Reddit oriented discussion. We don't need it in every single community. Kbin and Lemmy cannot be just about Reddit. I'm not saying don't discuss Reddit. Just do it in appropriate communities so that it doesn't drown out everything else and so every article isn't cross posted into every news, tech, internet and whatever other communities vaguely apply.
About the only thing we can do is unsubscribe from and block the dozen or so "Reddit Sucks" communities/magazines, and report the "We Still Hate Reddit" threads that pop up elsewhere for being posted in the wrong place (like Technology or Gaming or wherever).
Huge mood.
I am trying to make the best of it. I realized that I don't really need to read every post in the migration threads. I can't fix the situation and everyone has to make their own personal choice.
I usually stay in my subscribed feeds and can dodge the majority of it
Not to disrespect peoples feelings, it's a situation with a lot of valid emotions in the face of crap
I don't mind the Reddit posts until 7/1. On that day, if the apps go offline, Reddit will have won for all intents and purposes and it'll be time for Kbin and Lemmy to just be themselves and stop talking about Reddit.
Except we'll likely get another wave of users coming over, all wanting to rant.
Is third party apps dying really going to move them over here if they haven't already?
What do you think? Will the average person proactively seek options to their habits, once they know they might have to change them? Or will they continue with their existing habits to the last second, and only then seek options?
I think some people who haven't left yet do want to leave, but some are ready for the fediverse and others aren't due to it not being at a stage that feels polished and straightforward to use. For those I think squabbles is an alternative since while it's destined for the same fate that has met past social media companies at least it's an effort to move from the current established corporate juggernaut of community based social media.
So I think more options need to be given aside from just fediverse until that is so easy anyone can use it without thought. Otherwise they'll have to go back to reddit if they can't get used to it. Which is the sense I got from people who have been using squabbles and started using it over reddit.
What I meant is, most people haven't even really looked into using something other than reddit, because they still can.
Hence, there will be another wave, when they cannot.
My belief is that people who continue to use reddit normally don't really care strongly enough to leave. They are only upset about the third party apps, but not enough to quit reddit. They don't care about wanting a decentralized internet and having a platform for the people by the people. Even the use of the official app isn't even concerns of the permissions that could extract lot of additional data to build a more accurate profile of users to resell to marketers. I believe for them the outrage will pass. In the end they want to keep using reddit and aren't looking to leave. It's just noise in the outrage, but not an actual willingness to follow through.
So you're saying, of ALL the people who will move only when pushed my the third party apps ceasing their function, NONE will end up here?
There will be NO wave. At all?
Not exactly. The apps going offline will spring a new set of outrage, and another migration. After that it'll die down, with people either leaving reddit or staying there. And the ones that stay may eventually move away, but only if kbin/lemmy grow more engaging than reddit.
I just went to reddit and redditmigration and blocked those magazines, and just do that for the magazines/communities I get annoyed by since each instance has their own. It's actually kind of nice, people are at least forced to add a tag to every post (unlike mastodon where we have to rely on text filters when people do cute mispellings like "elno tusk" or whatever).
Sure you can! Made this quick and dirty userscript for kbin (probably a lot of things could be done better, but hey it works for me). But you get the gist... hopefully
I asked somewhat the same. Would love to search what im subbed on and search all with a minus something. In my case I was saying I would like to search minus titan but minus reddit sometimes and minus ukraine and others. Its just at times mind you. I see the articles, am are aware, and maybe even did my commenting and might even continue those convoes but I don't need anymore dups about the subject matter.
That's pretty much entirely what I used RES for, custom post filter by keyword.
yes in your mind. block them out in your mind
Time to start using that downvote button for Reddit BS outside of the Reddit magazines/categories.
Don't be part of Reddit Migration.
You can always block it...
...with
your
eyes. :^)
The only people I see talking about reddit are people like you complaining about unseen people complaining about reddit.
If you stop, it will stop.
Just chill for a bit.
I actually prefer Reddit tbh
I don't really have a preference between either of them. Reddit is only better because that is where most people are.
Reddit definitely has better features. It's not even a competition. The reason we're here is because of the Reddit administration and because of future potential. Eg, the apps are so new right now that Reddit's official app is better. But in a couple of months, that won't be the case anymore.
I do too, but this thread is about ways to filter or block content so I'm not really sure what that has to do with it?
I'd love a way to filter by keyword, which the Reddit Enhancement Suite and some of the 3rd party apps allowed. Maybe the upcoming Sync for Lemmy will port over its filters by domain, user, subreddit, flair, and keyword.
As for Reddit posts invading Lemmy, it seems like most of them are contained to c/reddit and c/RedditMigration, so blocking those two should fix most of OP's issue and that's easy enough to do without any extra tools.
Boooo, boooo this man. Jk, if you're still having fun with it then by all means. Most of us here have had it with their bs though lol.
Go back to Reddit if you don't like posts about Reddit. I hear Reddit has a lot posts about Lemmy.