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#131

In classic fashion, some people decided to write a script to automate entering the mute list, something that took me maybe 2 minutes in total to do manually. [1] https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac5...

Two minutes multiplied by even a hundred people more than makes up for the time spent scripting this. That's just sort of how hackers do.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Life got so much better after blocking "@threadreaderapp unroll" Interested to see how these work.

Just so others don't have to discover this: even if you block Threadreader, they will still harvest your tweets. You have to do "@ThreadReaderApp BLOCK ME".

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#133

If you don't like the way desktop Twitter periodically overrides your system settings and returns you to "top" tweets, try Twitter System Saver: https://github.com/kentbrew/twitter-setting-saver

Ooh, that's cool. And I had no idea that a browser plugin could be so simple. 13 lines of code!

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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As Twitter grows, they stray further and further from just showing you tweets from people you follow, and start showing all sorts of other crap you didn't ask for in your feed, such as "person X liked this tweet" or "here's a tweet from someone you may like", and so on. There is no "official" way to disable these annoying entries in your feed, but over time people have found secret "tags" that if you put in your mute…

The official way is to switch from Home to Latest Tweets. It works quite well, actually.

Or use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Twitter (unintentionally, I'm sure) built an adblocker into their app

I don't think this will block adds, based on the keywords. I would love to block all twitter commercial adverts. Presently I block them on sight and now get only adverts from small companies.

Use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

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post #78

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Toxicity seems to be a code word for "the plebs are saying things that I don't approve of".

Nah, it means "people being mean and awful, by a reasonable person's standards." Obviously this is somewhat subjective, but abstracting it into "things I don't approve of" misses the point.

So why is it almost every-time I here it mentioned in regards to this topic it is by those who act pious and pompous as a way of shutting down legitimate criticism?

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

#140
Twitter was the most useful social network for me personally, depending on who you follow you can come across some interesting ideas there.

Yet, after a few months “sober” I wonder if I might be missing out. Is the signal to noise ratio high enough to justify using Twitter these days if you are not a major celebrity and don’t intend to promote something?

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