2y ago

Is there a way to block communities by using a regex?

I am still working through fediverse communities to curate my subscribed experience. As such, I still like to look at Local/All feeds to get ideas for additional subs. While doing that, there are many topics/communities that just aren’t relevant to me. I would like to be able to preemptively block them rather than have to manually click into their community to block them.

Does the fediverse support regex use to block? I can’t find it anywhere. For example, if I don’t want to see anything related to “Bork” I would like to be able to use that regex to block all the “Bork” related communities (Bork, ActualBork, BorkinSmork, SmolBork, BorkCirclejerk, etc. ). Is this possible?

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To my knowledge no there is no such feature at this time, but the ability to filter communities has been requested a lot over the past couple days.
Lemmy is not a business, so it's only a matter of whether and when the developers feel like it's a priority. I believe their priority recently has been making sure the platform doesn't implode due to either security issues or the extreme load placed on a few servers.
- Thanks and I hope the devs are able to get to it at some point.

Sounds like a fantastic feature request.
Have you had a look if there is one already?

Kbin has the ability to filter out specifics, but it's simple wildcard matching, not regex.

The connect app has a bunch of blocking options, including by keyword or entire instances. Not regex though.
- Oh wow thanks, I've been thinking about that all day recently how I want to auto hide auto block things and couldn't find how to. I would also prefer regex tho but keyword is already a great improvement. I'll definitely check this connect app you mentioned.

On jerboa you can block a community without opening the post. I like to sort all/new to find new things and then block most of the porn and sports.

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