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Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by xmodem »

Kiro wrote: post #88
xmodem wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Switching to mastodon has been such a breath of fresh air. No algo-driven feed manipulating me to constantly check in means that I have a much healthier relationship with it. If I'm, say, on the metro I can use it to kill time for 5 minutes... and then put it down, and I don't feel compelled to pick it up.

Every time I see a post from Mastodon it's always some hate and rage driven rant. Like "I can finally say what I want so f* this and that". Anecdotal of course but it doesn't really come off as less toxic.

What you can do, is curate who you follow / block so that you mostly don't see that. TBF you could do the same thing on X/Twitter to an extent but the platform has an incentive to circumvent your preferences.

Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by vanrohan »

I'm also on a mission to clean the "For You" feed. I tried using local LLMs to do this real-time classification, but it's currently just too slow.

Another way to reduce the spam, is to remove bot followers from your account, I believe these bots use "likes" (which are hidden) to boost content for the botnet owners. Most of these bots are easy to spot, 0 posts, and very bad follower/following ratios. I built this Chrome Extension for bot removal automation: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-bot-remover/aohkh...

It would be way better if this was just done by X themselves, but why not try.

Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by felixgallo »

palmfacehn wrote: post #46
croisillon wrote: post #33

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how dare they talk (badly!) about him in a thread about twitter!

The above poster didn't elaborate when he mentioned, "Living rent free". If we are going to have a discourse on the topic, I think it deserves more depth. He's a complicated figure. I'm not a fan of all of his ideas, nor do I consider him some kind of right-wing free speech savior. He's like anyone else in that there's some hit and miss. I do find it disturbing how quickly the predominantly left-leaning tech sphere t…

can you provide an example of the 'politically driven media talking points' that unfairly stained poor Elon's otherwise sterling reputation with the green, ah, globalists?

Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by buran77 »

beAbU wrote: post #47

I've found this [1] to also work really well to clean up the feed. 1: https://help.x.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-deactivat...

I went that route for my account which I wasn't using anyway but only because I realized it's not "my account" and my control over it is way too limited.

I logged in after many years of inactivity only to realize that despite only having a few friends, my feed was exclusively Musk and Tesla stuff. No amount of "don't show me this" helped. On one hand I found it exceptionally pathetic that any person would need to stroke their own ego to this degree at the expense of everyone else. But worse, it's clear that Twitter/X/Musk control my feed more than I do so the only way to win the game is to not play it.

Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by mlnj »

Extropy_ wrote: post #97
cynicalsecurity wrote: post #96

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Don't drive a car and thus never get a flat. Problem solved.

"Why keep using a rusted old car for which the manufacturer will not service it and has not spare parts for when there are better cars out there."

Fixed that for you.

Have been using BlueSky for the past few months. Has been great.

Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by Extropy_ »

mlnj wrote: post #98
Extropy_ wrote: post #97

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Don't drive a car and thus never get a flat. Problem solved.

"Why keep using a rusted old car for which the manufacturer will not service it and has not spare parts for when there are better cars out there." Fixed that for you. Have been using BlueSky for the past few months. Has been great.

I'm glad you found a car you like. Different cars, different problems, different benefits
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