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[โ€“] fujiwood@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How am I supposed to make a filter to block "X"? I know Lemmy doesn't support it yet but on Boost I could add filters to block certain posts with words/names.

I'm hoping that Boost for Lemmy will have this feature but my first question still stands. Blocking Twitter was easy because it was specific. How am I supposed to block a letter? I

[โ€“] aliceblossom@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe they could add wildcard domain level blocking? Then you can block twitter.com for now and thex.com or whatever it gets changed to later.