do not feed the trolls

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/55903832

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noretus@crazypeople.online · 30 pts · 10d (1 reply)

This is the way.

orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts · 23 pts · 10d

I go online as an escape from reality. So why the fuck would I hangout in a space where I’m surrounded by terrible views regarding women, race, gender, etc? We’re all in echo chambers. I don’t come here to debate some asshole that thinks climate change is a hoax and ICE is good.

HexesofVexes@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 10d (1 reply)

I just did that earlier today - 100% works.

Ptsf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d

110%

cRazi_man@europe.pub · 15 pts · 10d (1 reply)

The best time to uninstall social media is 10 years ago. The second best time is now.

OpenStars@discuss.online · 1 pts · 8d

Or split the difference and uninstall it 5 years ago? 🤪

craftrabbit@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 10d (7 replies)

Need to save this for the next time somebody says Lemmy is too toxic :3

SatyrSack@quokk.au · 6 pts · 10d (6 replies)

Can Lemmy block keywords yet?

WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d (4 replies)

I'm pretty sure it can. At least on jerboa app

SatyrSack@quokk.au · 4 pts · 10d (3 replies)

How? Opening Jerboa now, I see I can block things like users, communities, and instances, but I don't see a way to block a keyword.

WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d (2 replies)

Yep looks like I was wrong. Could've sworn it had that capability. Maybe I was thinking of Apollo or something?

pipe01@programming.dev · 2 pts · 10d (1 reply)

You can do it on boost

SatyrSack@quokk.au · 7 pts · 10d

A bunch of third-party apps have that feature, just not base Lemmy itself. Copying an old post of mine (which may be a bit outdated at this point):


Lemmy itself allows you to block communities, instances, and users. But it does not support filtering by keyword, e.g. filtering out any post with the word "platypus" in the title regardless of where it was posted or by whom. With help from the comments below, here are some third party Lemmy clients that have their own implementation of keyword filtering:

  • Blorp
  • Boost
  • Connect
  • Eternity
  • Interstellar
  • Raccoon
  • Summit
  • Sync
  • Tesseract
  • Thunder
  • Voyager

Do NOT support keyword filtering:

  • Alexandrite
  • Jerboa
  • Lemmy UI
  • mlmym
  • Next
  • Photon
  • Quiblr

Comment anything I have missed or mistakes I made


Added Blorp, which I believe launched after I had initially made that post. Let me know if there is anything else.

craftrabbit@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 10d

Voyager can!

Picture of a settings menu with the section about blocked keywords circled in red and an obscene amount of red arrows pointing towards it

(I even put some arrows pointing towards it :3)

Blibly@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 10d (1 reply)

Imagine the trouble we could have avoided if our media would do the same....

I knew we were in trouble when troll posts were becoming nightly news. Now we have a demented pedophile troll as president. Yay....

AviAdi@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 10d

Well it's what the people want. If you can't beat them, join them? Fuck taking the high road

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 10d (5 replies)

"I don't like reality."

puts on VR headset

huey_m@piefed.social · 2 pts · 10d

The line between acknowledging an unpleasant reality exists and submersing yourself in an unpleasant reality really isn't all that fine in my experience.

tal@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 10d (3 replies)

Though I'm not sure that people are generally comfortable wearing VR headsets, as they exist in 2026, for many hours.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 10d (2 replies)

Comfortable... Physically, or because of the privacy concerns? 🤔

I could spend all day in current offerings. It was taking it off that made me feel ill* more than being in it.

(*Aside from the time some fat Asp barreling into the slot as I was exiting slammed into me and sent me spinning outta control hella fast in Elite.)

tal@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 10d (1 reply)

Oh, no, I was thinking having them on. Like, sweat building up, stuff like that, weight.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 10d

Weight's not too bad if you have a counterweight so it's not all in the front. There's also at least 1 out there (BigPicture, IIRC) that has a headset that's super small almost like a pair of glasses, but not quite that small. It's smaller than the Frame is.

Sweat is a mixed bag and there's a downside to both foam (absorbs sweat, gets nasty, some models also are itchy af) and silicone (becomes slippery, doesn't breath so you sweat more).

Really the biggest thing keeping it trom becoming a bigger scene is probably the lack of good software. Alyx is still the best thing you can play exclusive to VR. Most other shit is basically mobile shovelware and artsy "experiences"/tech demos.

einlander@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d (5 replies)

Is there a reason they are reposting everything that's over a year old?

AviAdi@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 10d (4 replies)

Because this place is an echo chamber where critical thinking is questioned but simplistic memes are celebrated

SatyrSack@quokk.au · 10 pts · 10d (2 replies)

critical thinking is questioned

Is it?

MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 10d

AviAdi@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 10d

Very much so

yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 9d

In this specific community you're probably right. I'm here to laugh at jokes told by cats and relateable parenting scenarios as seen through the eyes of a crocodile dad.

I'm not about to dissect a 300 page refuting of traditional dogma or whatever here. Probably never gonna bother anyway, but certainly not in a thread in comicstrips

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 10d

I feel attacked.