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

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I'm also on a mission to clean the "For You" feed. I tried using local LLMs to do this real-time classification, but it's currently just too slow. Another way to reduce the spam, is to remove bot followers from your account, I believe these bots use "likes" (which are hidden) to boost content for the botnet owners. Most of these bots are easy to spot, 0 posts, and very bad follower/following ratios. I built this Chro…

yeah, something local (and free) would be much better. i'm not even sure how expensive could this be if it would run all the time...

re bot removal: thanks for it, will give a it a try!

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

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someone asked the exact same question hah.

i'd say because: the network effect is still strong. it feels like a huge chunk of (recent/real-time) tech/design discussion happens there. but could be just me. i'm still warming up on bluesky/threads.

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

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Hi, could you do me a favour and point out which of the following count as conservative (or more recently, centrist) view points, to you?

> The paid accounts posting the content all consistently posted antisemitic or pro-Nazi material. Examples included praise of Nazi soldiers, sharing of Nazi symbols and denials of the Holocaust.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-elon-mus...

The facts are still the facts, even if you don't happen to know them.

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