The SQL way
https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.ca/post/40761824, thank you to @[email protected]! Note this does not work with regex patterns.
The slur filter way
(.*(\n)*Hi.*[nN]icole.*[fF]ediverse [cC]hick(.|\n)*) Is what we are using on dbzer0 right now. It previews all of nicole’s messages as just “removed”.
Why such hacky fixes? Well truth is, due to lemmy’s subpar filtering we really can’t do much about this currently. At most these just repel from the potential harm of nicole’s messages.
@[email protected] has opened these two issues:
Greedy regex always makes me uneasy. Yeah, it’s super unlikely that that combination would appear otherwise, but it could if a couple of people were talking about the topic.
It was even more aggressive before we just removed on dbzer0 lol. It’s too much work but hopefully the new lemmy update can help.