Arky's Corner

How to make the mute feature better

Some social media platforms have a feature to filter out posts that contain certain keywords. Here are some of the ways I think they can improve it:

Option to mute not just a specific keyword but posts with words directly related to it.

"Sports" will mute posts containing "Football", "Tennis", etc.

Enabling this option will show a few words that are related to this keyword and we can select what we want to include in the muted list of words.

Mute profiles with words

Option to filter out posts from profiles with certain keywords in their names and bios.

"crypto" will mute posts from people with "crypto" in their names and bios.

Exclude accounts from a filter

Option to exclude accounts from a keyword(s) filter.

Mute "bulbasaur" and add the official Pokemon account as an exception will filter out all posts with this keyword except the ones from the Pokemon account.

Filters for only specific accounts

Option to select only specific accounts that will be affected by a keyword(s) filter.

Mute "football" from CNN, BBC

Will filter out posts from those accounts containing "football"

Whitelist posts with keywords

An option to whitelist instead of blacklist posts with certain words. The whitelisted words will be used to prioritise posts with these keywords.

An option to not only filter posts but also prevent the trending page from showing words and hashtags with the muted keywords.

Mute images

An option to filter out images related to a keyword

"bulbasaur" will filter out not just posts but images of bulbasaur

Wildcards or regex

"backr*ms" will mute "backrooms", "backr00ms", "backr_o_o_ms", etc

Filter list backup.

Feature to export and import a list of muted keywords so we don't have to setup the same filters on another account.