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How to block certain words on lemmy feed (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As the title says I want to block posts with specific words. I'm not an American and lately my whole feed is filled with trump/biden and I'm not slightly interested. Thanks in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with "says"? But yeah, blasts and slams definitely need to go, lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Particularly in politics and news communities, it indicates a "here is what predicts will happen" article. They're not all shit by default, but I'm generally not interested in speculation pieces. I only want to know what actions concretely happened, not what some guy anticipates may happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I could see it being used for quotes (or at least paraphrasings), so I can't imagine it being all bad