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Just posting my list of filter words on here in case anyone else wants to make their feed politics-free

Biden, District, EU, alt-right, democrat, democrats, desantis, elections, far right, far-right, federal, gop, Jan, maga, nomination, representatives, republican, republicans, senate, senator, trump

It's quite refreshing.

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[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't including "American, Canada, Canadian" a bit far? Lot's of non political contexts for those.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm that's true, I guess the posts were just irrelevant to where I live. I will remove them from the list though since I want it to be universal

[–] EmilieEvans@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

EU? That would be like banning USA.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually considered removing EU when I removed 'American' 'America' and 'Canadian', but I figured that 'EU' does usually refer to political news.

[–] EmilieEvans@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Depends. If you are talking to Asia or US just referring to yourself or a place as EU is the best option. Same goes for technical documentation. There is for example "EU machine directive" which would trigger the block list.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Canada, Canadian

There goes most of my feed ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They didn’t block Hockey…

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I was going to make a joke about the Canadiens, but technically they're not blocked either