The Voyager app allows you to filter out posts with keywords.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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I did this on mobile, but I would do it all twice to mute it on both mobile on desktop. It's one of those UX things that's gonna make it hard to get new users onboard Lemmy, unless the UX can be improved to allow muting words directly within Lemmy and storing the list by Lemmy account.
I wish at the very least, Voyager allowed one to export the muted words list to a file and import the file, which could mitigate some of the hassle. On Mastodon, I have like 75 muted words covering news and politics, so muting them all is just painstakingly time consuming if I have to do it twice, and then updating the list twice as I come up with new words that need muting/blocking.
During onboarding of a new account, https://piefed.social/ asks you this:
... and sets up an appropriate keyword filter based on your answer.
I saw that Trump and Musk are muted when not signed in, but for obvious reasons I haven't done onboarding for a while. Neat stuff.
I'll just add that setting up custom filters is also easy as pie.
There are 3rd party apps and alternative Web front ends with that ability
It'd be nice to know what they are
Regarding the post title: Lemmy itself allows you to block communities, instances, and users. But it does not support filtering by keyword, e.g. filtering out any post with the word "platypus" in the title regardless of where it was posted or by whom. With help from the comments below, here are some third party Lemmy clients that have their own implementation of keyword filtering:
- Boost
- Connect
- Eternity
- Interstellar
- Raccoon
- Summit
- Sync
- Tesseract
- Thunder
- Voyager
Do NOT support keyword filtering:
- Alexandrite
- Jerboa
- Lemmy UI
- mlmym
- Next
- Photon
- Quiblr
Comment anything I have missed or mistakes I made
Eternity for example
I know tesseract (an alternative front end) does. And I know that I’ve used mobile apps with that functionality before, but honestly, I don’t remember which ones had the feature and which ones didn’t, because I never used the feature, and these days, I even use tesseract on my phone.
oh yeah? what web front ends do you know that have this ability? please share if you would be so kind?
Thunder and Voyager both have keywords Filtering. don't know about others
Connect also
Voyager and Connect even allow you to filter by URLs, so you don't see posts linking to media you don't want to hear about.
Eternity too
Put these three filters in your adblocker custom rules:
lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/trump/i"))
lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/elon/i"))
lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/musk/i"))
I do this with the Boost for Lemmy app on Android and it works great.
You can using voyager app/UI.
The native UI doesn’t let you.
OMG yes. I wanna ban words like Trump, Elon, Musk, Nazi, Fascism, Fascist, Biggot etc.
I filtered out all these words associated with current political headlines and now 2/3 of the threads on my front page are hidden despite me not even following a single political instance other than world news ones. Just goes to show how toxic this place has gotten recently.
Agree. Bit where can one go to? Reddit ia worse
Absolutely. It's insane. It's just a far leftist echo chamber circle jerk hub.