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One thing I'm still trying to wrap my mind around with #Friendica is its options for hiding content. I've gotten very used to Mastodon's content warning system, which makes it simple for users to hide a post's content behind a custom message. I really like this, because it makes viewing content "opt-in". As far as I can tell, the closest analog for Friendica is an "opt-out" system, where users can use the NSFW plugin to define their own filter rules and hope other users will cooperate.

That said, it seems there are a lot of tools that are tangentially related to this, so it's possible I'm overlooking some. Would anyone with more Friendica experience mind explaining the various ways Friendica users can filter or hide content from their stream?

cc: @Friendica Support

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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  

Yes.

There is an extensive content collapsing system which is harnessed by multiple addons:

  • NSFW for NSFW content which relies on remote user appropriately tagging their content.
  • Blockem to collapse content for specific users.
  • Language Filter to collapse content in languages you don't read well enough.
  • And the parent of them all, Advanced Content Filter which uses boolean logic, regular expression and more generally free-form rules to collapse content.

If a post matches any of the rules that have been enabled through any of these addons, then the content will be collapsed and the matching rule(s) will be shown.

Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
Now if you want to remove content from your stream, you can either ignore (one way, they can still get your posts) or block (two way, no communication is allowed) remote contacts, or remove individual posts manually through the post dropdown menu.
Alexander
Alexander  

@Spencer
NSFW is most universal as it works across most networks. You can add more keywords to hide if you want.

Just tag questionable content with this tag and it will be hidden almost anywhere.

Also there is spoiler tag:
[spoiler][/spoiler]

Click to open/closeIt allows to hide parts of content but don't expect it to work on other networks.
@Spencer
Alexander
Alexander  

Filtered word: nsfw

Spencer
Spencer  
This is all very useful, thank you!
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