Using uBlock Origin, you can add your own filter. This filter will block any post with the text “Elon Musk” (not case sensitive), modify as needed.
lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/elon musk/i"))
div.post-listing is the element to block
:has(args) returns elements where args evaluate to true
span is the element with the title text
:has-text(needle) returns the element if it has the next needle, supports regex with \needle\ and remove case sensitivity with i
Read more here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-filters
I wish I could block Elon Musk from reality.
I think he is doing it to himself imho.
Not quickly enough
Better late than never I suppose
Did this with Kim Khardashian on my pc, if I can do it for mobile too that would be lit.
uBlock works on Firefox mobile, filters can be set.
Sync for Lemmy has keyword filtering! :)
What I really want is a browser plugin that replaces any mention of “Ron Johnson” with “Ron Johnson, THAT fucker”
“Ron Johnson, THAT fucker’s blockade of spending measure puts government shutdown in focus”
There are so many other people that could and should be applicable to.
Too late.
I have been wondering how I could do the same for X (formerly known as twitter). I’m tired of reading about it every day. I don’t know how to filter it out since it’s just one letter and it’ll filter out everything just containing an X in a word
You can use the regex:
/\bx\b/iIt’ll catch ‘x’ surrounded by word boundaries (stuff like spaces, dashes/hyphens, commas, etc.) but not ‘x’ with other letters on either side, so it won’t match e.g. “sax” or “boxer”, but it’ll match “x.com” and “Elon’s X” and stuff. It’s probably not perfect though, so use with caution.
Stuff about X-rays will be filtered, for example. You could probably go a little safer with the regex.
Neat! I follow Lemmy communities in an RSS feed so I can just filter right in my RSS reader. It’s pretty nice.
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And I heartily encourage people who loathe Elon Musk to do this. Perhaps then it will be easier to discuss subjects like reusable rocketry or electric cars without so much “but the Twitter!” digression.
He’s not designing the rockets, dude. He’s on ketamine posting rot about The Jews. The world does not need Elon Musk to have technological progress.
He’s very much involved in the designing of those rockets. That’s a fact, not opinion
There is exactly one patent with his name on it and it’s the shitty door handle that breaks all the fucking time. I’ll believe he’s involved with the rocketry division the moment he develops any kind of engineering experience or skill that he’s willing to show the public, which if he had it, given that he’s an ego driven megalomaniac, the public would definitely have seen.
Anyone capable of dispassionately studying this subject even one level deeper than the headlines can quite easily find a ton of sources proving he’s both personally involved in the design progress of these rockets as well as quite competent on many fields relating to it. It’s understandable that people hate him but spreading lies is where I draw the line.
I would argue that anyone capable of dispassionately studying this subject can equally easily find that Elon Musk is not a reliable source of information (I’d dare say a liar) , eg:
- the famous solar city presentation where Musk showcased several houses with solar tiles. The houses were a tv set for Desperate Hosewives, and tiles he was showing off simply didn’t exist. That can’t imagine a scenario where this could be an honest mistake.
- the funding secured tweet from 2018 where he claimed he had enough money to take Tesla private at 420 USD / share. He got sued therefore we know he didn’t - even remotly.
I don’t know whether Elon is a genius or not - but when somebody, who is proven to be somewhat creative with the truth, also claims that he is a genius - specially in the “I know more about manufacturing than anyone else alive” manner - I don’t think it is unreasonable to have doubts.
The discussion was about wether he’s personally involved in the design of the SpaceX rockets or not.
He’s not designing the rockets, dude. He’s on ketamine posting rot about The Jews.
This is what I’m arguing against.
It’s understandable that people hate him but spreading lies is where I draw the line.
So doesn’t that make it even more reasonable to not constantly jump in with how awful Elon Musk is when discussing SpaceX’s rockets?
His rockets suck and his cars suck.
His cars really suck, the amount of build quality problems on those cars is way too high for a car that costs as much as it does
And that’s something that can be discussed entirely without jumping to “Elon Musk says bad things about people.”
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Henry Ford was an antisemitic loon. Should we abandon mass production of cars? Wehrner von Braun was a literal Nazi, should we abandon efforts to land on the Moon?
Elon Musk is a terrible person, yes. But the technologies his companies work on are not affected by his terribleness as a person.
You suppose his terribleness has zero impact on the technologies his companies work on? That is the whole issue of him owning Twitter.
One shouldn’t trust a black box technology (e.g. software) in the first place but even moreso from his companies.
Based on the comments about him online, I find that he is simultaneously in complete control of every aspect of his companies and their technologies, and also an idiot rich kid who bought every company fully-formed and relies entirely on the people he hired to get anything done.
You can dictate what your employees do in a company you own, that much is self evident
He can tell his employees to go one way and ignore (or fire) them when they raise objections
So he can be in total control and still be a spoiled rich idiot, those things are not mutually exclusive
The question people are usually arguing about is whether he gets “credit” for his companies’ successes. If he’s got total control but he’s an idiot, how are his companies doing so well?
Well, aside from Twitter. But nobody’s good at everything.
