Politics blocklist
Just posting my list of filter words on here in case anyone else wants to make their feed politics-free
Biden, District, EU, alt-right, democrat, democrats, desantis, elections, far right, far-right, federal, gop, Jan, maga, nomination, representatives, republican, republicans, senate, senator, trump
It's quite refreshing.
Isn't including "American, Canada, Canadian" a bit far? Lot's of non political contexts for those.
Canada, Canadian
There goes most of my feed ¯\(ツ)_/¯
ah see i just block the accounts that post the bullshit.
there's only like three of them.
Oh, I expected there to be more
Can someone do this with anime please?
I was thinking of having a FOSS/Linux one as well
Bit too much of a moving target, I think—you'd have to adjust the list for the currently running popular shows and their major characters, every three months for the rest of eternity. And even if you did that, some posts consisting only of an image, meme, or video wouldn't get blocked.
What I'd like to do is block all meme posts in communities that aren't specifically about memes or humour. Maybe when hell freezes over.
Do you get much anime in your All feed? I have hardly any
When browsing all, yes. Tons. Even in communities that aren’t about anime.
UwU
communists not blocked, we win again
As long as you make good jokes, you stay off the list ;-)
Thanks for the list, pretty much everything there is absolutely irrelevant to me and where I live, mas generally it's just about Trump.
On a side note, I also get very irritated that the news and world news communities are mainly news about American right wing politicians
Yeah, I agree with both things. I wonder what it would be like to have a feature where you only see posts/comments from your region. It would lead to more localisation. I guess it's not a problem on other language subs but the English communities have people from everywhere. That's obviously a good thing as well though
well done I too am sick of political garbage whichever country
I dipped out of r/politics on Reddit because over the past few years the general trend there has been:
Reliable news outlet posts article Partisan clickbait site posts their incendiary "take" on the article Redditors post their hot takes based on misleading clickbait title without reading either article
There's just no value to reading hot takes from uninformed teenagers seeking only to validate and amplify their worldviews based on clickbait titles alone. It's important to stay informed, but there's such a diminishing return for getting news from a subreddit vs. a legitimate news outlet, and it's definitely not worth the mental health hit. And I don't think it's a Reddit-exclusive thing. Personally I'd rather stick to reading news from the sources, and keep my social media focused on other things.
Why don't you just block the entire politics community? I use Sync, is that a Sync-only thing?
Blocking the overtly political communities only takes the edge off. So many other people insist on posting it every goddamn where anyway.
Based. With RIF I had an absolutely massive blocklist. It was especially bad when Trump was in power because Redditors kept making new subs that would instantly shoot to the front page.
Yeah I wish there was a collaborative, exhaustive list of all political subreddits (in like a Google sheet or something
I block all communities that post news. I've never seen somewhere to enter text filters like this. Not sure I'd want to anyway.
I'm still interested in some none political news, so this suits me better
How's your content look with those? Good amount of stuff still?
Yeah, surprisingly! My feed is a lot less stressful.
Sure, Jan
It's for Jan 6th
Seems pretty broad
Yes it is
Also abortion, law, rights
"Elections", " representative", and "federal" could exclude many non-American and non-Canadian countries.
Edit: Oh, silly me. I misread. I thought you wanted to exclude American stuff, not "political" stuff. Well that's another conversation. Is there something that is not political? Is there something that doesn't comment on the distributions of political goods such as significance, relevance, resource allocations (including time and attention), or value judgments?
Of course there isn't and I know that very well. But I mean 'apolitical' in a common sense way.