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We took a close look at Elon Musk's more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.

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[–] AbidanYre 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is there a way to block content other than community and user yet? I'm getting really sick of hearing about Elon.

[–] monkey 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync for Lemmy has keyword filtering:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's so cool.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best bet would be to make a feature request for a mobile client to add word/phrase filtering.

[–] Strangle 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’d just like to be able to block bot posts

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, I’m not a bot, tho. 🤨

[–] Strangle 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that you were

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can disable seeing bots on Lemmy, in your settings. Not sure if this carries over to apps though.

[–] Strangle 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve heard this, I should log into the website and look. I use an app though

[–] Ab_intra 3 points 1 year ago

You can in your settings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am most decidedly not. Just terminally online while I’m on a long vacation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This girl has to be stopped!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you. I was hoping you’re real - I enjoy all your posts!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Aww, thank you! I try to post things I think are interesting and other people will like.

[–] MajorHavoc 6 points 1 year ago

I've just started blocking the user that posts it. Not the best solution, but it's cutting a lot of it out if my feed