No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world applejacks @lemmy.world 1y ago

is there a way to block posts via keyword?

i am going to go insane if I see another Elon Musk post.

please tell me there is a way to block via keyword.

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Sync and Boost both offer keyword filtering. That's why I finally decided to use Sync, it was the first app to allow blocking entire instances and filter by keyword. Lemmy is a pretty great place, once you can filter out all the noise.
- Voyager and Mlem offer it on iOS.
The API doesn't let you block by keyword but I'm pretty sure a few Lemmy clients offer keyword filtering.
I use Sync and if you had put Musk or Twitter in the headline, I'd never have seen this.

What sucks is that I can't block "x" because too many other headlines have X in the word and the filter strips leading and trailing spaces from the keyword.
- I can't block "x"
  
  I think that's part of why he did it.
  
  I'm sure it played a part
I haven't tried this myself but but you should be able to do it by creating custom rules on your adblocker

Example:

lemmy.world##.d-sm-block.d-none > .row:has-text(Blockchain)

lemmy.world##.d-sm-block.d-none > .row:has-text(ChatGPT)
- Has-text is case sensitive. Adding / before the keyword and /i after will set it to case insensitive.
  
  Example:
  
  lemmy.world##.d-sm-block.d-none > .row:has-text(/Blockchain/i)
  
  You can also use | to add multiple keywords to the filter.
  
  Example:
  
  lemmy.world##.d-sm-block.d-none > .row:has-text(/Blockchain|ChatGPT/i)
Fyi, there is a feature request on lemmy repository talking about this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3710
You can do it in a lot of apps/front ends

Which app are you using?
- I'm just talking about on the website, should have clarified.
  
  Which website?
Maybe you can try getting it added to this userscript?

Oh, I misread keyword and keyboard.

Still, take a look here and see if anything adds it.

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