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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.
Be careful what air you breath in: "Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material" [1] [2]. A lot of this was previously limited by X until a mass exodus to platforms such as Mastodon and BlueSky. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/24/twitter-r... [2] https://archive.is/SNYcK#selection-423.0-423.53
Actually this is a big reason why a lot of instance owners block replication of any posts from Japanese instances
Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed
#73Already implemented something similar but using Gemini Flash 1.5 https://twitter.cercaapp.com
neat!
yes it's the same idea, tho for this one you need your own API key, which can be a bummer for some.
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This sounds like an extreme waste of resources in all sides.
Extreme is right; I can only imagine the waste of power. It's probably exponentially worse than the waste of gas by postal services for delivering junk mail. Except I'm not sure there's anything that can be done about it in the US because of first amendment rights.
People (or "people" aka bots) do not write bs because they can. They write because they are incetivised to do so.
Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed
#75Its impressive how fast this is. I don't use twitter anymore (for the same reason as your use case), but nice job!
yes groq is really amazing.
there is another player i've found when making this -> https://inference.cerebras.ai/
never tried their api tho
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Didn’t we use to laugh at boomers who got their news from their Facebook feed? X is the same thing, but with the lies amped up 10x and fractured into discontextualized atoms of outrage to keep you scrolling.
Yup. The variance of truthiness on X is probably the highest of all platforms. Meaning you get the most accurate news if you can filter/discern well enough, at the risk of being brainwashed if you can’t. Since alternatives also brainwash, X is more or less pareto optimal
There is a heavy Dunning-Kruger effect where people think they are very discerning and sophisticated in how they filter, but gradually descend into depths of misinformation without realizing.
Grandparents sharing nonsense on Facebook also think themselves highly informed — after all they’ve spent the past ten years in retirement “doing their own research”.
Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed
#78Nice! I'm glad I was not the only one frustrated by these and I actually made sth similar just this weekend, also using Groq cause it's super fast as u said. (but haven't published it cause I'm always frustrated about that part of sideprojects :D) https://x.com/Straaajk/status/1875492276715315405
Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed
#79I don't have to because I just use the "following" tab? I only see people I follow. Really don't get the point of this service
Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed
#80Nice! I'm glad I was not the only one frustrated by these and I actually made sth similar just this weekend, also using Groq cause it's super fast as u said. (but haven't published it cause I'm always frustrated about that part of sideprojects :D) https://x.com/Straaajk/status/1875492276715315405
super cool! i like yours better tbh as it looks much more granular in terms of categorizing
re publishing—just do it! this project is also a rough mess, only a quick experiment, so i doubt anybody will care if it fails sometimes / not perfect, code is a mess etc.