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
You can totally do it on Connect. I asked this same question on a different thread, and a user pointed this out to me. I have been using Connect since I started using Lemmy, but didn’t see this feature until they pointed it out to me.
Here is the link to my parent comment. The explanation on how to use the feature is right below it. Hope this helps you. It is a suuuuper useful feature, and it accomplishes exactly what I needed/wanted. You can also one-click block users on Connect which isn’t exactly what you were looking for, but still makes it easy to avoid users.
Connect really is the best app I have ever used on any platform. The dev seems to think of everything, and is super responsive to the community. Can’t say enough good things about it, seriously, check it out. Best of luck!
Link to comment thread:
https://lemmy.world/comment/3097128I am currently using connect, and this is useful, but it doesn’t really have a wildcard feature for users, I see they have regex filtering for posts but that’s not quite what I’m looking for, thanks though
I’ve been curious about this myself and it’s been asked a few times. I’m just regurgitating those answers with no expertise myself so… be warned.
Past answers: By keyword? Not at this time, regardless of following qualifications.
By instance/domain? Only if you’re running your own instance.
If you’re just a user, there does not appear to be a way to block an entire instance at this time. But, it’s been requested (many times) on multiple apps and in the lemmy core github via issues.
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.
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
