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The last time Trump won, there was this constant barrage of scandals and frankly horrifying news permeating my online experience. And while I admit that from my European perspective, there was some entertainment in the whole thing, the experience was more exhausting than anything else.

I like to keep up with the news, but I also like my mental health. Are there any effective strategies for keeping the amount of trump-spam I’m exposed to at an absolute minimum, while also keeping up with whatever else is going on in the world?

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[-] Ashiette@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

I have a filter on, I block the words "Elon", "Kamala" and "Trump". Furthermore I block politics community. It's not like they are about anything else than US politics anyway.

[-] Horta@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago

Legitimate question, did you temporarily disable it, or did it just not manage to block this post because those words aren't in the title?

[-] serenissi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I think they blocked in all and this community is subbed?

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately, posts that do include the keyword in the text but not in the title, still get through. Case in point, this one.

[-] Ashiette@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It's true, it also doesn't block images that have these words, but you filter more than 90% of the posts that you wouldn't want to see.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 day ago
[-] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This problem has already been solved by content filtering. You can make your own filtering system, or you can just use a browser plugin like the famous Make The Internet Great Again which filters out all Trump related News articles.

[-] Leavingoldhabits@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I’ll look into what the Firefox extension community has. For now I figure I’ll go down to the pub, have a pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.

[-] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 points 1 day ago

You can also use uBlock origin for that. You just need to make custom filter, and use GPT to figure out exactly what kind of code to write in that box. Different sites call their headlines with different names, so it may require some tweaking.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Some apps/frontends have keyword filters, could just filter out the word "Trump" as a way of trimming down the feed.

[-] Leavingoldhabits@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I’m using voyager and am filtering some keywords already. While it helps a good bit on here, I guess I’m more looking for an ad block extension for Firefox, but for trump and trump adjacent content. Ideally something that includes what his business partners and associates in the government are up to.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Hi, if you're on Android I can recommend Blokada5. Get the 5.21.0 version from a mirror because newer versions (the only ones you find on the play store) will only give you one month and then force you to upgrade your account.

As an ad blocker it works for your entire phone, not just Firefox. I don't have any adblockers for my browsers.

[-] Bagel5941@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I've used the Spoiler Protection 2.0 extension in the past, though it hasn't been updated in a long time so there may be a better option.

It doesn't block content but places a big red overlay over links, headlines, images (that are tagged) and videos. It's not fool proof but definitely useful if you want to block "Trump" or "Musk" or whatever else.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago

I am genuinely considering moving away from English language social media altogether. I find my native language media... kind of exhausting, honestly, but it's still better than what the last Trump term triggered, so... maybe? It has the side advantage of countering some of the whole cultural imperialism, because hey, I'll suffer it from US coastal elites, but I desperately need an alternative if it's going to be coming form Elon Musk and Donald Trump, so...

[-] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

I posted a guide last year on how to do it on Eternity for Lemmy:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6091026

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

If you use the Google feed in pixel launcher, add the keywords you want to block.

That was the first thing i did 2016...

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