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

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Post by danielpetho » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 9:49 AM UTC

hi friends!

i'm pretty tired of engagement bait and all the political nonsense on my x/twitter feed.

i was curious if i could use an llm to filter out these type of content, so i prototyped a quick chrome extension.

it uses LLama 3.3 to analyze the tweet through https://groq.com/ (because they are super-super fast).

the extension is available in the chrome store, also there is a link to the repo.

- you can tweak the system prompt for the filtering - but you need your own API key from Groq (you can get one for free)

Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed
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Post by nomilk » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 10:29 AM UTC

I'm personally a huge Elon fan, but I know many who are not and have heard from multiple sources that they can't get him out of their feeds no matter how hard they try. If you tweak your current idea to simply remove all Elon-related content from the feed, that would be funny but may also be strangely profitable (people would probably buy it out of spite).

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Post by patchtopic » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 10:30 AM UTC

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Post by yellow_lead » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 10:32 AM UTC

Its impressive how fast this is. I don't use twitter anymore (for the same reason as your use case), but nice job!

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Post by LeoPanthera » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 10:36 AM UTC

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Post by eddieh » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 10:38 AM UTC

It was much easier and healthier for me to just leave Twitter (never gonna call it the other name). In fact, I’ve left nearly all of social media. It would be nice to get away from all algorithmic content feeds. Maybe someday.

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Post by blueflow » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 10:38 AM UTC

patchtopic wrote: post #3

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The platform was not the problem, it was the people. People migrated to bluesky and fedi and now create these contents there.

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Post by plaguuuuuu » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 10:39 AM UTC

nomilk wrote: post #2

I'm personally a huge Elon fan, but I know many who are not and have heard from multiple sources that they can't get him out of their feeds no matter how hard they try. If you tweak your current idea to simply remove all Elon-related content from the feed, that would be funny but may also be strangely profitable (people would probably buy it out of spite).

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Post by xmodem » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 10:41 AM UTC

patchtopic wrote: post #3

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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.

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Post by jamesrcole » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 10:42 AM UTC

I think this is a glimpse of the future. I can imagine ever-greater amounts of information overload, and AI used everywhere to filter it to manageable levels.