Just in time for an election year in the US, from @news today:

Added muting words or phrases to the timeline! On the web, click Account → Edit Muted and Blocked Users. Note that after some changes, it may take a minute to update the timeline.

@manton Brilliant.

@manton Thank you! This also applies to lots of people from outside of the US due to the historic amount of voting taking place this year.

@manton 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@manton Thank you.

@manton Not for me, if I'm honest. I'm not easily triggered. 😜

@ridwan Ha, that's fine, feel free to ignore. 🙂 I'm not usually either, although I may use it occasionally.

@manton I'm going to be teasing @pratik a lot during this election cycle. Hope he doesn't block or mute me. 🤣😝

@manton Great change. For the future, it would be nice to be able to mute right from the timeline, in the official app at least. Mona does this for Mastodon. Highlight word(s) and a mute option appears in the normal iOS selection popup.

@manton Should the phrase be in quotes? Otherwise posts with either word get muted?

@pratik Nope, no quotes needed.

@numericcitizen Yes, you could mute a person by username, but not mute posts that contained specific words in the text of the post.

@mcg Thanks. We have an API for this so will likely integrate it better into the native apps.

@manton 👏🏻🙏🏻

@manton and comma separated if multiple conditions?

@pratik There aren't multiple conditions. To mute multiple words, you can mute them separately. If you want something like mute only if the post contains two or more words but not together as a phrase, there's no way to do that.

@manton oooh! Got it. I was thinking the UI was only one field to include the words and phrases you want to mute. I see that some people have already asked for tagmoji support ☺️