How do I go about blocking particular content but not necessarily the people that post it? There’s a few comics that are on my feed regularly which I can’t stand and want to make sure I don’t see them.
is the source of the comics the same domain? you can block users, communities, and domains. otherwise you can do the keyword blocking.
I’ve no idea. I don’t know how any of this works. I just came here as Reddit went to shite.
yeah so I would try blocking the domain or url the comic comes from first. then do keyword if it does not. I encourage liberal blocking but generally I prefer domain first then user then community. keyword I generally just use for things that become to popular and I want to get rid of all posts about them.
If the title has a repeating word you can use that for keyword blocking with uBlock Origin, though last time I checked it applies to usernames as well. This this wont block their comments but will block all posts from them if you write their username there.
feddit.uk##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(/keyword/i))Just make sure to switch in your own instance.
in the lemmy web UI you can block communities, instances, and users. if you’re using another ui or a mobile client you can usually also block words. if they’re consistent with their titles you could add the name of the comic to a block list.
Works really well with summit. Blocking words is very nice when someone is posting a comic strip I don’t like to a comic strip community like it is going out of style.
Requires them to have the title of it in their post though, which thankfully they do.
Now if only I found a way of blocking the drawings some people seem hell bent on posting to cute animal picture communities I’d be soooo happy.
Lemmy can’t, but Piefed can block by keywords.
Not sure if that’s possible. If you want to block pizzacake but pizzacake is not in the title or it’s not the same person posting you’re out of luck.
Not impossible, just not easy. You would need something doing OCR or content recognition to tag it, the rest would be easy.
Seems like I just have to block the particular poster then.
That would be the easiest short of doing some fairly complex content recognition.
You can block entire communities, that’s typically what I do. I just Boost for Lemmy and on the triple dot menu for each post there’s a block option for user, community, or server. I make heavy use of community blocks.
I’ve blocked several hundred communities with news, comics, politics, pretty much anything depressing or upsetting. I want Lemmy to be a place I come to chill and relax, not a place that riles me up and makes me afraid.
Some folks have argued with me that I’m sticking my head in the sand, but for news I’ll check AP News a few times a week for a limited time. I’ve got a Leechblock plug-in that restricts how many minutes a week I get on AP News, so I’m not doom scrolling it. In that time, I’ll decide if I’m making any changes to my behavior for the next few days. This way I’m greatly reducing my time spent worrying and stressing about current events.
The way I figure it, 99.99% of the time I used to read news daily on social media, I would get more angry and scared but it was entirely an internal torment. I’d never change my behavior, I would just become more tortured and stressed. This became a very real addiction, I craved feeling the rush of cortisol from reading some outrageous political news. I can’t live like that anymore.
Wouldn’t it be easier to set your starting feed to “subscribed” and only subscribe to communities that cater the content you like? If you feel the need to see new things, search for communities or browse “all”…
Its community or users; no way to block tags since we don’t use them
I wonder if anyone has implemented a keyword blocking system?
In effect if a title has a “flagged” keyword which has been previously defined by the end user, it simply autohides the post.
I am no programmer so no clue regarding how hard it would be to implement
