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1. Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 05:39:05 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

   You can use Mastodon's filter system to automatically hide posts containing certain words or phrases. The posts can either be hidden behind a warning, or just hidden completely.

   Although they're usually used for hiding offensive material, filters can be used for any reason. Some people use temporary filters to avoid spoilers of an upcoming film, others use them to filter out Wordle posts for example.

   Filters have lots of options, so I've done a complete guide at:

   ➡️ https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon/

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 06:31:41 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • Jean-Louis Piraux

     @jlpiraux

     You can use parts of words as wildcards, if you make sure you UN-tick the box marked "whole word".

   • Jean-Louis Piraux (jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 06:31:42 JST Jean-Louis Piraux

     in reply to

     @feditips it would be a plus to be able to use wildcard characters and logical operators

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 06:33:01 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • A Manzer

     @amanzer

     Yeah, exactly! Filters are often seen as just a safety feature, but they're also really good as a timeline customisation feature.

   • A Manzer (amanzer@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 06:33:02 JST A Manzer

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     @feditips I love this feature!

     I like following hashtag StarTrek, but there are people who live-post syndicated episodes of Star Trek under the hashtag AllStarTrek too. I don't want to see those posts, but I don't want to unsubscribe from hashtag StarTrek, so I just filter posts containing the AllStarTrek tag. Works like a charm!

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 23:10:53 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • Schwarz

     @Lila

     That's fair enough!

     I guess nearest you can do is filter for "spider" and hope they have mentioned it or tagged it?

   • Schwarz (lila@dresden.network)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 23:10:54 JST Schwarz

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     @feditips I wish I could hide pictures that show spiders, seriously.