this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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It's a bit overkill and may likely block international news too, but seeing the first comment you got i understand why you don't want to deal with any of that shit. Thanks for sharing it.
The ol' head in the sand approach
I moved to RSS for overall news, so it's helped to not have to be so careful with keyword based blocklists and keyword based community blocklists. I think that's been one of the better things to come from this reddit event where I've moved towards rss over social media driven news posting.
Am not interested in international news per say but I'd like to stay up to date to what's happening without any particular event taking most of coverage over the others like with Ukraine.
That's nice thing about rss too. With Feeder on Android it has blocking filters to apply the same keyword based filters. Useful if you have a broad rss source that pulls from various sources and find some sources useless. And there's categories you can set to separate things out so there's like tech news, game news, international news, economy, etc. And with compact view it looks like a traditional social media subscription feed, and I find myself actually reading the articles with the comments not being the draw with none to begin with.
I found rss has been the best way to stay up to date over user curated articles that itself has its own biases in what they choose to submit. Just seeing the list of news from even one source without some voting or submission based algorithm at play kind of showed how much people submit the most clickbait or attention grabbing articles to try to get karma. Especially some instances depending on how politically driven they are to push their agenda to everyone. So rss has seemed preferable for a very broad look to see what's going on with current events. Has been the best delivery system I've found on the internet so far with more a time of published based feed than a curated algorithm of social media.
I'll definitely try feeder. Thanks
Was only pointing out the misspellings, but "leftis" is a clever way to hit all of those, I agree. Still, "white house" is not one word, and "Ukraine" has an "e" at the end (though, I suspect that follows the "leftis" formula). Downvote all you want, though. 😅
Honestly , your comment felt more like a "why you're blocking these keywords. You must not block them " or "look he's blocking leftist and Ukraine he must be right winger " attitude, which isn't outlandish if you see some of the responses to his comment.