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Who Filters Your News? Why We Built Gobo.social

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Re: Who Filters Your News? Why We Built Gobo.social

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Post by SpeciesInvader »

twiceaday wrote: post #3

The nice thing about Reddit is that content is strongly encouraged to group into subreddits making it easy to filter. My only problem is the opt-in model. I'd rather it be an opt-out model, show me r/all minus the blacklisted subreddits. They added a filter to r/all recently but it is limited to only 100 subreddits and is a pain to manage on mobile. So I wrote a script that periodically signs in as me and hides posts…

Could you share the source on that? I'm removing Reddit from many aspects of life but still like several subs but an overwhelmed and don't need all.

Re: Who Filters Your News? Why We Built Gobo.social

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Post by boriselec »

twiceaday wrote: post #3

The nice thing about Reddit is that content is strongly encouraged to group into subreddits making it easy to filter. My only problem is the opt-in model. I'd rather it be an opt-out model, show me r/all minus the blacklisted subreddits. They added a filter to r/all recently but it is limited to only 100 subreddits and is a pain to manage on mobile. So I wrote a script that periodically signs in as me and hides posts…

Reddit Enhancement Suite has blacklist settings

Re: Who Filters Your News? Why We Built Gobo.social

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Post by twiceaday »

SpeciesInvader wrote: post #11
twiceaday wrote: post #3

The nice thing about Reddit is that content is strongly encouraged to group into subreddits making it easy to filter. My only problem is the opt-in model. I'd rather it be an opt-out model, show me r/all minus the blacklisted subreddits. They added a filter to r/all recently but it is limited to only 100 subreddits and is a pain to manage on mobile. So I wrote a script that periodically signs in as me and hides posts…

Could you share the source on that? I'm removing Reddit from many aspects of life but still like several subs but an overwhelmed and don't need all.

https://pastebin.com/tLQ8LTvp

It uses praw [1] for the API.

[1] https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Re: Who Filters Your News? Why We Built Gobo.social

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Post by twiceaday »

boriselec wrote: post #12
twiceaday wrote: post #3

The nice thing about Reddit is that content is strongly encouraged to group into subreddits making it easy to filter. My only problem is the opt-in model. I'd rather it be an opt-out model, show me r/all minus the blacklisted subreddits. They added a filter to r/all recently but it is limited to only 100 subreddits and is a pain to manage on mobile. So I wrote a script that periodically signs in as me and hides posts…

Reddit Enhancement Suite has blacklist settings

RES is not available on mobile and doesn't sync between computers.

Re: Who Filters Your News? Why We Built Gobo.social

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Post by isaiahg »

The problem in my mind with the world of social media is that we can filter our content until we've created a bubble around ourselves and an echo chamber with only those who think like we do. It's important to be able to see things we don't agree with. It's important to that people with different opinion collide on social media and debate their ideas.
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