Brutkey

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

You can use Mastodon's filters feature to hide posts containing particular words, phrases, hashtags, links or emoji. There's a guide to using it at:

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

If you specifically want to block hashtags:

- Make sure the filter for the tag has the "whole word" option UN-ticked (not ticked). If this is ticked it may not work against tags.

- Don't include the #, just write the tag's word on its own.

- If the tag is a phrase, write it all in one word without spaces.

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Mimi
@A_Mimi@kolektiva.social

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Beware of not being your own censor:
https://www.psypost.org/personalization-algorithms-create-an-illusion-of-competence-study-finds/

All filters narrow minds.

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@A_Mimi@kolektiva.social

Just to make clear, filters on Mastodon are entirely manually created by users so the user is fully aware of what they are hiding and why. They also don't move posts around or prioritise posts or anything like that.

Also, the user can optionally show filtered posts behind a content warning instead of hiding them completely.

That article seems to be talking more about automated opaque algorithms imposed upon users against their will by commercial social media?