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

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Post by thih9 »

sphars wrote: post #125
thih9 wrote: post #103

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The link leads to a Twitter/X support article for “How to deactivate your account”.

That's the joke...

I know; my comment saves time (at least on devices where the link is truncated).

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

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Post by akopkesheshyan »

pluc wrote: post #114

If you don't want engagement bait or politics on Twitter.. why are you on Twitter? RSS is better to keep up to date on news, and if none of your friends are on Mastodon, get new friends.

Completely agree. No need to over engineer problem. Just leave the network

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

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Post by serenadeineb »

andrewla wrote: post #134
pluc wrote: post #132

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For the next month, every time you find something interesting on Twitter, go to the source. Look for their RSS feed - if they don't have one, ask them to work on implementing one both via Twitter and via their contact form. I don't know if it's still the case, but there used to be RSS feeds for Twitter accounts too.

And what then do I do with the RSS links? The last time I dealt with RSS at all was in the Google Reader days. Are there cross-platform solutions that maintain any context? Is there any way to reply or give feedback through RSS, or participate in conversations?

check out feedly.com its a nice RSS aggrogater website, with a competant ios app as well. Ive used it forever, and like the parent said, when I find myself on a site that provided a story I found interesting, I tried to add the host website ( like https://example.com ) as a rss source, and feedly checks and offers any rss feeds it finds.

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

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Post by pluc »

andrewla wrote: post #134
pluc wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the next month, every time you find something interesting on Twitter, go to the source. Look for their RSS feed - if they don't have one, ask them to work on implementing one both via Twitter and via their contact form. I don't know if it's still the case, but there used to be RSS feeds for Twitter accounts too.

And what then do I do with the RSS links? The last time I dealt with RSS at all was in the Google Reader days. Are there cross-platform solutions that maintain any context? Is there any way to reply or give feedback through RSS, or participate in conversations?

I use Feedbro for Firefox.

You can comment wherever people listen to you.

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

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Post by mrguyorama »

nomilk wrote: post #60
pavlov wrote: post #49

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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

>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

Absolute nonsense. Believing X is a simple distribution or sample of reality is bonkers.

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Post by russdill »

danielpetho wrote: post #137
russdill wrote: post #115

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It'd be nice if x would let you do what bluesky does, let you write your own algorithms and create your own feeds.

ah maybe i'm living under the rock, but how you could do such thing for bluesky? my feed is pretty boring there:d

https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds

There are of course a ton of custom feeds already out there.

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