Is there a way to block communities by using a regex?
I am still working through fediverse communities to curate my subscribed experience. As such, I still like to look at Local/All feeds to get ideas for additional subs. While doing that, there are many topics/communities that just aren’t relevant to me. I would like to be able to preemptively block them rather than have to manually click into their community to block them.
Does the fediverse support regex use to block? I can’t find it anywhere. For example, if I don’t want to see anything related to “Bork” I would like to be able to use that regex to block all the “Bork” related communities (Bork, ActualBork, BorkinSmork, SmolBork, BorkCirclejerk, etc. ). Is this possible?
To my knowledge no there is no such feature at this time, but the ability to filter communities has been requested a lot over the past couple days.
Lemmy is not a business, so it's only a matter of whether and when the developers feel like it's a priority. I believe their priority recently has been making sure the platform doesn't implode due to either security issues or the extreme load placed on a few servers.
Thanks and I hope the devs are able to get to it at some point.
Sounds like a fantastic feature request.
Have you had a look if there is one already?
The connect app has a bunch of blocking options, including by keyword or entire instances. Not regex though.
Oh wow thanks, I've been thinking about that all day recently how I want to auto hide auto block things and couldn't find how to. I would also prefer regex tho but keyword is already a great improvement. I'll definitely check this connect app you mentioned.
Kbin has the ability to filter out specifics, but it's simple wildcard matching, not regex.
On jerboa you can block a community without opening the post. I like to sort all/new to find new things and then block most of the porn and sports.