I constantly find myself blocking not accounts mostly because I don’t care about their content, plus certain communities I have no interest in like sports stuff could easily be blocked by using text strings with wildcards

Like *bot

Does anyone know of a way to do this? Preferably a Lemmy client that just does it without having to run a script? Because unless I run it daily new accounts are just going to pop up

  • zoe
    2·
    10 months ago

    edit: apparently this won’t be of much use to u. idk what regex or wildcards mean :/

    whats wrong with scripts ? they run automatically.

    to filter by keyword: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/470852-lemmy-post-utilities-filter-posts-by-title/ to filter an instance from ur feed: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469297-block-lemmy-instances

    if script doesn’t work, ur home instance probably have a weird name that doesn’t include the “lemmy” word, like mine now, so u add (for exemple) https://infosec.pub/ to the match content box in settings. hmu if encountered trouble.

    u can use those scripts on android too, using firefox beta or nightly and enabling custom extensions on firefox, and adding violentmonkey to ur custom add-on collection.

    also disable bot accounts in the lemmy web settings, so u wont see bot posts.

    • yokonzo@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      The problem with scripts is they run automatically… Unless your computer is off, which mine frequently is to save power and then I mostly browse Lemmy on my phone. I will take the other stuff into mind though that’s useful knowledge

      Edit, just saw that part of your post: regex is a very extensive programming language used to search within text strings and a wild card is basically a symbol that denotes *=(put anything here), like 1_bot, 2bot or 3.bot would all be listed if you searched for *bot , its a much easier way of working with things than regex