• Nima
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    2 months ago

    exactly this. i have a filter on certain keywords. his name is in there but there’s nothing I can do to avoid posts about the platform.

    it’s super irritating.

    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Does your filter recognize whitespace? Including a space before and/or after X should catch the posts about the platform while not filtering out posts that just have an X inside a word somewhere. X isn’t going to be a single letter surrounded by space unless it’s referring to the platform.

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        2 months ago

        i have tried with various formats and unfortunately none of them work, or they just ignore the attempt.

        i appreciate you trying to help, though. i honestly just kinda wish it would change names again so it’d be easier to somehow block. lol

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          2 months ago

          Ah, fair enough. I’m almost certain some sort of regex wizardry would be able to solve this problem, but I’m not nearly enough of a wizard to tell you what the proper spell would be. And that’s assuming your filter even supports regex.

          Best of luck dodging headlines, I guess.

    • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
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      2 months ago

      Honestly, between these obsession posts and all the other non-tech news that gets posted here, I just unsubscribed this morning. The signal to noise ratio in this community is just not worth it to me.