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Is there a way to block communities by using a regex? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks and I hope the devs are able to get to it at some point.