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Is there a way to block communities by using a regex?

https://lemmy.world/post/1216318

Is there a way to block communities by using a regex? - Lemmy.world

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?

Jul 8, 2023 at 10:02pmWeb
Show threadAurelianJul 8, 2023

Sounds like a fantastic feature request.

Have you had a look if there is one already?

Show threadhenfredemarsJul 8, 2023
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.
Show threadPineapplePartisanJul 8, 2023
Thanks and I hope the devs are able to get to it at some point.
Show threadRhaedasJul 8, 2023
Kbin has the ability to filter out specifics, but it's simple wildcard matching, not regex.
Show threadZarxraxJul 8, 2023
The connect app has a bunch of blocking options, including by keyword or entire instances. Not regex though.