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Can I block posts about Reddit? (lemmy.world)
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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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[-] ConTheLibrarian@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] FearTheCron@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] CMLVI@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] pwnicholson@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] fool5cap@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] atocci@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] morgan_423@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] eating3645@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Sure but then you'll block your own post...

[-] designated_fridge@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Ironically, people who have managed to do this would not see your question

[-] sp6@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] DryTurnover@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

How do you feel about Digg?

[-] HoagieBoy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The same way I feel about MySpace

[-] Epic2112@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You wish you'd never have switched from Friendster?

[-] thayer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] EK13@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Mlem on iOS seems to have that feature under Settings > Filters at least!

[-] Kichae@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] tomcatt360@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

Hopefully RES type option comes out for lemmy and kbin.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I mean you could just block the two Reddit or three communities ..

[-] WhiteTiger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] tallwookie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

no, but filtering per keyword would be a nice feature

I'd really love to filter "the" - just for fun

[-] MisterMoo@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Except we'll likely get another wave of users coming over, all wanting to rant.

[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Is third party apps dying really going to move them over here if they haven't already?

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago

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?

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[-] VoxAdActa@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

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).

[-] Kroxx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The Connect for Lemmy app on Android has a filter-out posts by keyword feature

[-] hschen@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

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 !snoocalypse@lemmy.ml !reddit@lemmy.ml !reddit@lemmy.world !RedditMigration@kbin.social

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

a lot of prominent posts have been "reddit??". But there are many quality discussions about other topics.

[-] muftiboy@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

yes in your mind. block them out in your mind

[-] corytheboyd@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

You see the irony here, right?

[-] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Is there anything else I can do?

You can always block it...

...with

your

eyes. :^)

[-] Nerrad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Go back to Reddit if you don't like posts about Reddit. I hear Reddit has a lot posts about Lemmy.

[-] lupomancer@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] ApollosArrow@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

It will die down soon, once the main migration finishes.

[-] Ech@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Gonna be another spike in the next week, so probably not soon, but it will die down.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] pterodactyl@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Ech@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I’m realising blocking communities/magazines is as much a key to a good experience as subscribing to them, of not more.

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.

[-] space_iio@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

I actually prefer Reddit tbh

[-] unabatedshagie@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I don't really have a preference between either of them. Reddit is only better because that is where most people are.

[-] CoderKat@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] silicon_reverie@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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