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Yay!!! I didn't realise this! Friendica.world has content filters enabled! This is fantastic! Now, I can add the political and other annoying words to it, and, with luck, I won't see such posts again!

#ContentFilter #Friendica #happy #NoPolitics

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in reply to Georgiana Brummell

These are the words I've included, minus the obscenities. I didn't want to include things such as revolution, class, or resistance, because I might miss things about records spinning at 33 revolutions per minute, or baking class, or the resistance of a key as you press it. But if I am missing any, please let me know. Most of these are geared toward the political left, but rest assured, if I saw lots of post from the extreme right, I would definitely add their vocabulary, too. Fortunately, I haven't seen them. I also only saw one religious person, and he was at least respectful.

ableism, anti-capitalism, anarchism, anarchist, anarchists, anarchy, billionheir, billionheirs, capitalist, capitalists, Democrat, Democrats, fascism, fascist, fascists, immigrants, oppressed, oppression, oppressor, oppressers, patriarchy, politics, proletariat, Republican, Republicans, rights, socialism, socialist, socialists, Trump, white privilege, union, unions

in reply to Georgiana Brummell

sigh It's not working. At least, not on TweeseCake. I keep seeing all of this rot in my home timeline! This is beyond annoying! Fortunately, I hardly ever see it in my Notifications timeline. I was so happy when I saw the filters. It hought they would work.
in reply to Georgiana Brummell

I guess your browser expands all posts?

The comment where you listed all the words that you block got collapsed for me:
in my case, I got a "Filtered word: Trump", directly followed by a "Reveal/hide" toggle button.

Unfortunately, I haven't found an option to completely remove specific postings - only "completely block/ignore this profile", which is also a one-at-a-time thingie ...

in reply to phle

Hm, @Ruud, do you know if there is such an Addon available, and would it be possible to add it to friendica.world in that case?
@Ruud
in reply to phle

Filtered word: nsfw

in reply to Georgiana Brummell

@Georgiana Brummell This really sounds like filters are purely cosmetic on Friendica and built into the frontend, so if you use a different frontend, it bypasses the filters. I mean, NSFW is of course built into the frontend, but I'm surprised about the actual filters.

I would have expected Friendica's filters to reject filtered posts, i.e. if you're the only one on your node who would receive a post or comment, but you filter it out, the entire node rejects it. That's how filters work on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte.

Anyway, I could suggest you a whole number of keywords that I use as hashtags in my posts and comments, so you're spared both from my Fediverse posts and from my virtual worlds posts. But there's a bit of a risk of "false positives", especially when I post about image descriptions.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Friendica #Filters

in reply to Georgiana Brummell

Instead of trying to block posts you could turn things around by creating a channel or multiple channels that allows content that you want to see. Go to Settings/Channel and then 'Add new entry to the channel list'. Now you can create a new channel that e.g include tags, excludes tags, from another channel or a certain circle and so on. This is pretty neat to fine tune your stream. As an example I created a Dutch channel (see image). It's not bullet proof but together with blocking certain persons or organizations it gets me pretty far.

However I'm not sure if TweeseCake does support this.

in reply to Greenpepper

image description:
screenshot of channel, showing only content in Dutch
in reply to phle

Thanks, I wasn't sure how to add an image desciption in Friendica but found out it can be done in BBcode.