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Is there a way to hide posts? I have slight arachnophobia and want to be able to hide posts when they contain spiders without having to block a community or a user.

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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't know about Jerboa, but Connect for Lemmy has a feature that you can type in keywords you want to use as filters, and posts with those words in the title are automatically hidden.

I use it to filter out political posts, and after using it in this way my Lemmy experience has drastically improved. You may be able to use it in a similar way for spider related stuff, maybe Jerboa can add a similar feature.

As far as images without anything to note its a spider in the title, you'd need to add image recognition, which is something more likely to be added to Lemmys backend than as a clientside thing.

[–] LittleTarsier@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't mind seeing spider related text posts, and would worry that filtering out the word spider would mean I don't see spider-man related things, which is quite different. I'm wanting a way to hide a post once I've already seen it so that I don't have to see it again.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Having an option that treats all posts like nsfw -- click to view image -- would work, right? That sounds like something I wouldn't mind having on by default as well.

[–] Kyyrypyy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To fair, I think the only way to executevthat would be to implement an image recognition algorithm, as I don't see lemmings marking arachnids as a tag on their posts even as arachnophobia is one of the most common phobias out there (to be fair, I think Mastodon has stronger culture for tagging trigger warnings).

That said, if you have SLIGHT arachnophobia, I'd almost recommed exposure thereaphy with a professional psychiatrist, as if you have some tolerance, it's easier to work on than full on panic without ant tolerance.

[–] LittleTarsier@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It used to be a lot worse but I basically underwent exposure therapy by working in a place where there were tons of spiders!

But yes, as the other commenter stated, I would like to be able to hide it once I've already seen it, in order to prevent having to see it again.

[–] Kyyrypyy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I tought hiding read posts was a feature of Lemmy itself. To be fair, I swapped to Connect from Jerboa after I suggested quality of life update UI, and tge response was rather hostile in my opinion. I mention that because in Connect, hiding posts and comments is bit too easy, as I tend to do that mostly by missclicks.

That said, I'd imagine implementing a feature to hide post shouldn't be too hard of a task to program in, I'd imagine.