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admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 2 months agoI prefer the latter, because it’s so much easier to filter out posts about Elon than it is to filter out posts about X (without creating a ton of false positives).
Nima@leminal.space 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.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Elon had a cunning plan
bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Plan? Sure. Cunning? Eh…
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 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.
Nima@leminal.space 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
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 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.
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 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.