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

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

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

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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.

Social media apps have downsides, but I find the algorithmic short videos on facebook ("reels") quite incredible. The algo seems to suggest mostly science; niches I would never have known about, let alone had an active interest in, had the algo not suggested them.

I suspect experiences using social media apps differ wildly from person to person.

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

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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.

Elon was one of the main enshittifiers. I even used to read Twitter without JS.

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

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Let's not promote divisions.

Unless you meant: "people should stop using social media in which there are monetary incentives to be sensationalist", which I definitely agree on.

I would love if we had more civilized discussions on the web, we would understand eachother better that way. But it's an impossible ask.

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

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

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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.

This sounds like an extreme waste of resources in all sides.

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

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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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Leaving X is one way. But there is an intersection in the venn diagram between those who find X valuable and those who dislike Elon's content.
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