FILTERS(1)

📦 version 0.3.4, in alpine 3.24

💅 FILTERS(1) — the filters glow-up

okay so bestie, listen — this is the filters page from the General Commands Manual, and she's honestly so iconic for what she does. Let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

filters — custom filtering, aka curating your own little corner of the timeline 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea: custom filters can be created by admins and by users, and their whole job is controlling what messages are seen and how they're presented to you. Like, you're the main character, you decide what shows up on your screen 👑

Filter rules are built on a series of matches and actions — think of it as "if this, then that" but make it fashion. You get to it via the filters submenu item on the account and admin pages. iykyk.

Every single filter has an optional name and notes — those are for user defined purposes, so go off, label things however you want 🏷️✨

Every filter is also specified to match either posts or comments — pick your lane, bestie.

  • Admin filters are applied once, when the target is saved. one and done, periodt.
  • User filters are applied when displayed. every single time it renders, she's working 💅

🔍 the match types 🔍

The following match types are possible, and the golden rule is: all nonempty criteria must match (not me being strict, that's just the vibe check). Matches are specified as keyword:value — literally exactly that format, no cap.

  • from — match an actor or domain name 🌈
  • group — match a specific group 🫶
  • link — match a post URL 🔗

🎬 the actions 🎬

The following actions may be applied. You can stack multiple actions, but heads up — some are subsumed by others (so like, don't be surprised when one action eats another's whole job 🙈).

  • hide — don't show this post. bye bitch, blocked, not on my feed 💀
  • relink — try to find a better link in the post body. she's doing a little link-shopping 🛍️
  • noimg — remove images. minimalist era, no visual noise, just text 🧚

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • azorius(1) — go say hi, she's in the family 🌟

💀 CAVEATS 💀

Garbage in, less garbage out is still garbage.

literally could not have said it better myself. the math is mathing and the math says garbage is still garbage 😭

and that's the whole page, bestie! this one shipped in Debian, dated $Mdocdate$, and she's filed right back under FILTERS(1) where she belongs. mwah 💋🎀💖

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