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there are certain things I want to be out of the loop of, anything to do with him seems good.

I'm looking for mobile solutions specifically.

thank you very much

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you do that, how will you stay up to date on my 172-part saga on various animal musk scents that I've recently smelled in my neighborhood?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

well I'm going to have the keyword musk blocked, but I'm going to allow exceptions for "died", " comedic drowning", or "scent".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

“scent”

You are braver than I am.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if possible, check for capitalization so "Musk" is blocked but "musk" is allowed?

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

solid suggestion, thanks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Good call. Fortunately, many annoying topics and people have very distinct names. My US elections candidates filter for example is working very well and toning the flood of news articles a bit down 😆

Though, now that I'm thinking of it... Maybe I'm missing out on news on trumpets and whatever Harrison Ford does?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What does Ford have to do with politics? Unless you meant Harris, but then that's easily solved by blocking only whole words.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe Doug Ford the famous meth smoking politician from Canada or his brother Rob (or vice versa?)?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Or Gerald Ford (but the joke was 100% "Harrison" being blocked.)

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

I like all of the answers, though😅

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That depends on the app or frontend you're using.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, keyword filtering isn't a default feature (yet) @[email protected]. I'm not sure which apps/frontends enable keyword filtering, but I think Voyager on mobile does, not sure which web frontends do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

cool, thanks. i will be trying all these suggestions out.

I'm looking for mobile solutions, I'll add that to the post

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Tesseract and Photon do on the web. Maybe others, but I know those two do.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

awesome, I have a lot of options to look into.

thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You are no longer welcome in c/perfume.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

they really didn't want me there anyway.

I'm providing a service.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is an app for android called Thunder that can do this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

awesome, thank you

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Will i be cancelled for adding palestine to my list of blocked words?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Mine so far:

musk, elon, altman, X, sailor, Trump, kermit, ceo, taylor, spez, reddit, layoff, remote work, stewart, oliver, protest, fox news, boeing, lqbtq, lgbtq+, columbia, abortion, republican, campus, gop, kristi, air defence report, trans, transphob, helldivers, heathcliff, stack overflow, stackoverflow, return-to-office, police, cop, israel, palestin, gaza, rafah, genocide, pride, trooper, sheriff, windows, billionaire, c.e.o., microsoft, desantis, canvas, vance, project 2025, crowdstrike, maga

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

I can't see any reason why anybody would get upset about Palestine.

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

On Android, I use the Connect app, and it has this feature.

Thanks for reminding me it's there, gonna go add a few filter words now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

thank you, I appreciate it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

On browser you can put this onto your uBlock origin filters. Just make sure the instance in the beginning matches yours.

sh.itjust.works##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/musk/i"))

Or for lemmy.world user

lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/musk/i"))

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I selfishly want someone to get around to making RES for Lemmy already. The number of amazing features in that add-on was fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Even if you do, the people who incessantly post about him do their best to evade your filters and make you read about him anyway. Most often they just refer to him generically without using his name, or they'll misspell it like mysk, or call him something like "muskrat," or it'll be in the pic/comments but not the title/OPpost, or it'll be about tesla, the cybertruck, whatever the hell musk adjacent shit I don't care about, etc.

I wish you luck. If you succeed please share your tips for the rest of us, it's just so goddamn omnipresent and I'd like to filter it too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I think this would be very popular and way back there was a thread about it. It sounded like it may be possible with some app front ends.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry, I can't seem to find it, but I can tell you that those filters exist on mastodon. I am using them a lot there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

okay, great, I just wanted to know it was a thing before I went digging around too much, so this helps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Voyager for iOS has keyword block under Settings -> Filters & Blocks

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

rad, thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

looks right