How to improve your Lemmy experience

So your lemmy is just 99% Linux and started trek then?

"huh... Only 2 people posted things today, how odd"

elon israel kamala musk putin russia trump ukraine

There. Now I hid your own post from you.

i think Sync's filters only work on post titles - but thanks i guess?

You must get nothing but memes, Linux, and porn.

what's wrong with linux, memes and porn? 😂
- I have no issues with any of them. I don't think I'd be a frequent Lemmy user if that's all there was though.
Eh, not so much porn. There's barely any uploads. Which in turn is why lemmy is so dead.

LADIES!!! GROW LEMMY!!! SHOW YOUR TITTIES FOR THE GOOD OF THE FEDIVERSE!!!
- Why don't you do some work? Go and upload the porn you have seen today, maybe we'll have a new post record.
- 1st that's kinda weird
  
  But also there actually is quite a bit of it already. Go to your user settings and make sure you have "Show explicit content (NSFW)" enabled.
  
  There's whole instances for this stuff like lemmynsfw.com. I see it in my feed (blurred, so I can use Lemmy at work lol) a lot especially if you scroll for a bit.
- eww
- God you people are disgusting. If there was one woman here she would’ve left after seeing your comment.
- Perv detected
I just want a block community button on the main page so I don't have to open the "HUGEGAPINGASSHOLES" community up to block it (none of the images in the headliner are censored despite blurring being on).

No offense to people who are into that I just don't want it on my front page
- I agree, I'd like to be able to block a community from the main page as well. I have no issues with things like gay porn, but it would be nice to be able to block it from my feed without having to open the community.

Bliss for mental health indeed,
been doing this for a while now,
zero regrets.

Too bad it doesn't work for filtering text in images, because here you are.
- That's true,
  but hey, filtering and blocking out 90% of the unwanted/negative content is already way better then getting blasted by the full 100%! :D

But then I'd only be viewing 5% of the content Lemmy makes available for me today.

...and nothing of value was lost.

So Nazis are fine????????

He didn't put nuclear warheads!

Hey, this guy likes nuclear warheads!
- thanks for illustrating my thoughts about that comment so well, you're a poet kind stranger
Wouldn't wanna miss "Nazi gets kicked in the balls and cries" tbh.
Well mostly the only people using the word Nazi are calling out the Nazis. The Nazis themselves don't claim to be Nazis. In fact the Nazis very often say Nazis don't exist, and then go on to define a Nazi as strictly a member of the Nazi Socialist Party from ~WW2 and deny all other usages.
it's more about what kind of news pop up in the feed overly frequently. i don't give a shit about US elections or Musk, and I don't want to be confronted with war permanently either. i can't remember seeing many posts about nazis on lemmy, but i wouldn't mind reading about them being arrested, extradited or trampled by elephants, so they may stay off the list for now

When you accidentally add PugJesus to that list and Lemmy becomes a void xD

At least you get rid of the spam from a clear karma farmer!

Yes people, I know you cannot see other people's karma, but the attitude is still the same.
- So you made an account *check note* about one year ago and your total contribution to the fediverse is *check note again* one post. But yes let's get rid of the frequent poster so this place will get better by having no content. 👍
- There's no record of farmed karma, though? They've talked about it before, they just happen to have a lot of time on their hands at the moment and can't do much else.

I'd add ben_dover just to make it perfect.

This garbage still appears in my feed.

First world problem: I don't want to hear about paying for genocide

if you're already doing everything you can then there's no point in bombarding your mind with horeible things every day.
- Big "if" there
Don’t want to hear about it from a social media platform. Lots of people don’t want to consume their news on an anonymous online platform.

Secret lifehack I found just the other day, block the lemmit bot that reposts stuff from Reddit.

Or don't show bot accounts at all

I still have "Hunter Biden" and "Vision Pro" on my list

Hey that's looking damn close to what mine is, but they still managed to squeeze through

how do i do this?

sync app for lemmy has all sorts of filters in the settings
On Voyager there's a filters and blocks page where you can add whatever filters you want.

I've done it before, but still get memes and stuff of terms listed on there. It's annoying.

How to do this on defualt Lemmy on desktop?

Extentions.

In uBock Origin on the dashboard I added:

lemmy.world##article:has-text(/elon/i)

And that blocks any federated posts and comments with that text in the body while browsing lemmy.world. It does not block poats with elon in the title but no body text, so there is probably a title-has-text but I havn't messed around with that.

Add a new row per term you want filtered.

I then turn uBlock on and off for lemmy.world depending on whether I want it to be filtered or not, since it doesn't normally block anything on lemmy.world.

I'm sure there is an easier extension to use, just showing one way on desktop.

I just set subscribed to my default and prune my subscriptions. I like some politics, but I get enough from what seeps through in News, so I un-subbed from politics. I will seek out meme communities that are my speed and leave the rest to their own devices. I just take a peek at "all" every once in a while, and I tend to check out links people post in comments that interest me, but for the most part I have my corner of Lemmy more or less how I want it.