While this feature is available on many third-party apps, it’s not on the browser. However, since you’re already using an ad blocker, you can use it to filter out content as well.
To filter out posts with certain keywords, go to your custom filters and add this code. For example, to hide all posts containing the word “Elon”:
lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/elon/i"))
If your instance is something other than lemmy.world, just replace it with the correct domain.
To filter out comments, use this:
lemmy.world##article.comment-node:has(div.comment-content:has(p:has-text(/asshole/i)))
To add more keywords, simply duplicate the code and replace the keyword with another.
On many UI’s like voyager this is a setting
I am doing this a lot. It helps me to be careful and mindful about what content I consume. If I want to read news, I actively go to a news source of my choice. I don’t need fearmongering doom news sprinkled into my cat feed.
You might want to be careful of the Scunthorpe problem when doing this, and make sure you don’t filter out posts about melons as collateral damage.
Those filters support regex which let you distinguish between those. I use it to filter out “X” when it’s a “word” on its own.
I like using regex101 for testing.
make sure you don’t filter out posts about melons
Yeah! Gotta have your melon news! That’s what we’re all here for, am I right??
(I get what you mean and you’re right, your specific example just tickled me 😁)
Of course you need melon news. You ALWAYS need melon news. I, for one, want as many big, juicy melons on my feed as possible.
I could have said felony, but that refers to the same social group as Elon, so they’d probably want to censor it anyway.
I think that if you add spaces around the keyword it then wont trigger if that word is contained within another word.
Another thing to note is that the post filtering also applies to usernames.
I have a low level hardware filter for that on my brain’s innate ignore list.
What a great idea - thank you!!
