You can now hide posts by keyword π 17 β² Bubbles 𫧠Blog 17 days ago Β· Tech Β· hide Β· 3 comments You can now hide posts by keyword π Recently Brennan wrote about [four months of using Bubbles](https://brennan.day/bubbles-town-four-months-later/), thanks Brennan! He wrote: > I'd love the ability to filter out genAI posts rather than all tech posts Which I think is a good idea. Switching Tech off in the Filter menu costs you the Linux posts, the e-ink readers and the Photoshop rants along with the AI takes, and lots of the AI writing on Bubbles is listed under Culture, Life or Politics anyway. So here it is. Open the filter menu, click "Hide words", type the words you would rather not read. Any post with one of them in its title or text disappears from all lists. For simplicity the filter only recognizes whole words. "ai" filters posts with "AI-generated" because of the hyphen, but not "openai". You can add a star for word beginnings: "llm*" also removes posts with "llms" in it. Like all filter settings the word list is locally stored in your browser, not in the Bubbles database.β¦ Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. Courtney Rosenthal @courtney@pdx.social 16 days ago [-] Nice! If you are taking requests I'd love to be able to filter by source. My use case is not wanting to view Substack content. Clare Hooley @clare_hooley@mastodon.me.uk 16 days ago [-] @courtney yes, itβs fairly useless to hide by text such as AI for all the reasons given in this post (i.e. it catches too much), but at the moment all I can do is hide substack blogs as soon as I come across them. unattributed πβοΈ @unattributed@gotosocial.social 16 days ago [-] Filtering keywords, while appearing to be useful at first, is likely less useful in the long-term. Even something that might appear simple at first, such as censoring curse words can become a complicated mess.I think there is merit to other types of filters. For example, I notice that you can hide specific blogs through their profiles. Maybe adding the platform to the profile, and creating a list of all blogs by platform would help people find and block the content they don't want.
