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You can use Mastodon's "Filters" feature to automatically hide or block posts containing specific words, phrases or hashtags.

To access the feature:

1. Log in through your server's website
2. Go to ⚙️ Preferences
3. Click on Filters (on mobile this is in the ☰ menu, on desktop this is on the left of the screen)
4. Click on the Add New Filter button
5. Choose your filter's settings, then click Save New Filter

For more details on filter settings, see this guide:

➡️ fedi.tips/filtering-your-timel

fedi.tipsFiltering your Mastodon timeline to automatically hide posts containing certain words, phrases, hashtags, links or emoji | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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@feditips Q on filters, are they case sensitive?

@MKSinSA @feditips Thank you, I saw in the tips no information on whether the filters were case sensitive, which is why I asked Feditips my question.

@feditips @MKSinSA I should have clarified, you cannot assume from the tips (as you appear to have done) either that case matters or that it doesn’t. Hope that explains my question better. Thanks.

@Nora1Can

From the tips link: "You can add the filtered words and phrases in the Keywords section at the bottom. They aren’t case sensitive."

@Nora1Can
No worries. Just happy to have helped 😊
@feditips

@feditips I'm looking forward to this feature getting better.

I'm sure users would definitely like filters to act on posts by specific accounts and not others. And I'm sure they would like filters to be able to filter out everything *except* posts that match a given filter.

It seems obvious that this whole filtering feature will be one of the crown jewels of the fediverse that set it apart from for-profit social networks. Users will undoubtedly be able to exercise a high degree of control over their various timelines. I'm very much looking forward to it!