In my personal opinion, this site is completely unusable without heavy content filtering. Just being picky about which communities to follow and users to block isn’t enough.
That said, I realize I might be in the minority on this, so I’m curious what others are doing to preserve their sanity.
I’m personally using adblocker to hide posts with the following keywords:
xitter, united, ceo, c.e.o., exec, brian thompson, health exec, luigi, uhc, rednote, pets sunday, trump, elon, musk, nazi, fascis, israel, idf, ice, iceblock, palestin, gaza, project 2025, deport, kirsti, deepseek, rfk, it’s monday, it’s tuesday, it’s wednesday, it’s thursday, it’s friday, it’s saturday, it’s sunday, hobbies wednesday, music monday, billionair, republican, far right, far-right, maga, doge, LGBT, pronoun, trans, gulf, christian right, nancy mace, abortion, immigrat, gop, migrant, x, measles, pedo, transgender, queer, bondi, capitalis, sandy, cybertruck, tesla, tsla, protest, hegseth, windows, executive dysfunction, waltz, detain, pope, usaid, netanyahu, palantir, curfew, Kristi, week-end, microsoft, fucklapd, epstein, ghislaine, slop, altman, nexus, kirk, genocide, zohran, kimmel, mar-a-lago, linkedin, crypto, comey, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, transpho, zionis, antifa, racis, Jake paul, us aid, guard, patrol, snap, amazon, google, openai, meta, ai, scraper, ads
I also have a similar list for the common phrases used in mean comments:
xitter, x-itter, muskrat, douchebag, chud, acab, guillotine, piece of shit, pedo, boot, leopard, bibi, fuck alex, fuck zuck, fuck musk, fuck trump, fuck spez, fuck elon, elonia, twat, pigboy, eat shit, dipshit, dumbass, fuckem, fucker, shitbag, fuck nestle, dumbfuck, class traitor, idiot, fuck off, fuck you, depose musk, fuck matt walsh, fuck america, shithead, assclown, pukebag, cunt, avocado toast, temporarily embarrassed billionaire, bootlick, elon, musk
You’re filtering out kirk and my first thought was, “what does he have against Star Trek?”
Well, I do have Star Trek communities blocked too. That said, I don’t block stuff because I have something against it per se - I’m usually just sick of seeing it flood my feed constantly.
I even block topics I’m genuinely into, like AI, because I know the comment sections will be a total shitshow and I don’t want to tempt myself.
If single communities flood a lot you could try out scaled sorting
Do you only browse /all or do you have subscriptions as well?
My /all feed is basically the same as my /subscribed but with memes.
With all that blocking, is there even anything left on your feed at all afterward?
4 out of 20 posts on my front page are currently blocked. I think the record so far is 17 out of 20 when there’s a major event going on in the news, for example when Charlie Kirk was shot.
Oh yes, heating about Kirk got super annoying after the first post.
Should be ‘walz’ (I’m guessing you mean Governor Walz).
What ever event caused me to add that filter has probably already passed. Many of these are kind of outdated already.
I saw “United” and “Luigi” and was like dang, no one ever posts about that anymore.