Trying to avoid US elections content as a non-US citizen. Is this possible on the default Lemmy-UI? I prefer it over Tesseract and Voyager (which have built-in keyword filters)

Got this from the lemmy scripts community:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1633853

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There doesn't seem to be as much overflowing into non political communities here as at reddit where it's just overflowing everywhere I find. I think it's a reflecting of the anxiety many are feeling about the election. Hopefully it dies down in a couple of weeks.

I'm a US citizen and I wish I could avoid it.

Use the keyword filter. First of all add the last names of the candidates. And also "voting", "election". I'm happy with the amount of posts that remain after that.

The problem is that many of these content are image-only (titles don't always include names), requiring some kind of extension/userscript that's able to do some kind of OCR or Computer Vision. You can block specific communities or users, but this will also block potentially good threads (not everybody that's posting about politics is necessarily a politics-only user, same goes for communities such as !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world that aggregate both political and non-political content).

While there are communities explicitly and specifically focused on politics that can be blocked outright, there's no easy way to block every single political content without some kind of sophisticated client-side AI (which is error-prone).

You could look into using 3rd party clients to view Lemmy. They often enhance the default behavior with additional features. E.g. Voyager (the one I'm using) has a "keyword filter".