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Thankfully Lemmy somewhat negates this with their ranking algorithm. "Hot" is the default for comments and "active" is the default for posts, which according to the Lemmy docs, both "Counterbalance the snowballing effect of votes over time with a logarithmic scale."

Basically, if a newer comments gets some upvotes, but still has fewer upvotes than older comments, that new comment will still be shown near the top at first. Then after some time passes, the algorithm slowly shifts to sorting more by "raw" number of votes instead of taking time into account.

If you use lemmy in a web browser, you can sort of do this using uBlock Origin's advanced filters. I made a YSK post about it: https://lemmy.world/post/435133

That's nice, although somewhat different than what OP linked. I think the filter you linked will completely remove shorts, where the extension OP linked (Youtube Shorts Block) will instead convert shorts into a normal video, despite the misleading name. Although I think the extension has an option to completely block shorts too

I believe this one was a bit more comprehensive: https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/nntmsb/i_made_a_runelite_chat_filter_that_automatically/

There was a big Lemmy discussion about that article 2 weeks ago too: https://lemmy.world/post/467454

For even more counter-measures, going to plug privacyguides.org, as well as the lemmy community (and instance) that is run by the owner of the site, [email protected]

Sort of. Change has-text(@TheInstanceYouWantToBlock) to has-text(ThePhraseYouWantToBlock).

Just note that:

1. The filter is case-sensitive, and
2. This will block the post if the phrase is anywhere in the post. So even if the phrase isn't in the title, but is in the post's text body, the OP's username, the community name, etc, it will still be blocked. So blocking "trump" could accidentally block a playingcards post that has "trump card" somewhere in the post body.

When it's ready. Lemmy devs have been overloaded recently, so we should be patient with them.

However, I believe the main feature of 18.1 is captchas. Captchas were merged 3 hours ago, and captcha-related bugs were being worked on 2hrs ago. So, probably pretty soon.

If you're using Lemmy in a browser, you can block posts that contain certain keywords using uBlock Origin. I made a YSK post about it: https://lemmy.world/post/435133

Just be aware that "stable" in the linux world means "old." All of the software in the Debian repos will be much more out of date than some other distros like Pop!_OS, Fedora, or even Ubuntu. If you upgrade to newer hardware, or want to use newer software, Debian may not support it without jumping through some major hoops.

Not easily, but if you're on a browser, you can add a uBlock Origin filter for keywords in posts. I go more in detail about it in the YSK post I made earlier today: https://lemmy.world/post/435133 (Instead of filtering for instance/server names, just filter for keywords)

That blocks a single community on an instance, not the whole instance. So take this community, [email protected]. You can block youshouldknow (the community), but you cannot block all of lemmy.world (the instance). The method in my post allows you to block entire instances.