I'd like to just quit twitter, but unfortunately the other places devoted to discussing some of the hobbies I go to twitter for, are much more toxic (Reddit, 4chan etc). Simply being able to filter out everything unrelated to the hobbies I'm there for would be sufficient.
Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
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Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#22Adding to the chorus: if you need to apply a solution like this, it's probably time to walk away from the platform. (Well, the right time to walk away would have been years ago, but...)
All remotely popular online public spaces are completely infiltrated by bots/propagandists/trolls/morons/etc. If you could successfully filter that type of content out you'd end up with a much larger pool of valid/authentic content to access than if you abandoned the space altogether and switched to some very obscure/niche space that's yet to be manipulated.
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#23Adding to the chorus: if you need to apply a solution like this, it's probably time to walk away from the platform. (Well, the right time to walk away would have been years ago, but...)
Network effects are stronger than we are. People are there because people are there.
And when you are not there you are not there. We are way too obsessed with missing a thing. May it be a popular figure or someone we know in person. The reality is that it's actually not too bad to miss things and most information still gets through. Especially the one that's important. You might even miss out on a lot of crap that is filtered out when it gets to you.
I am happy on my personal Mastodon instance and occasional visits to HN. You might be too if you allow yourself to be.
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#24Adding to the chorus: if you need to apply a solution like this, it's probably time to walk away from the platform. (Well, the right time to walk away would have been years ago, but...)
All remotely popular online public spaces are completely infiltrated by bots/propagandists/trolls/morons/etc. If you could successfully filter that type of content out you'd end up with a much larger pool of valid/authentic content to access than if you abandoned the space altogether and switched to some very obscure/niche space that's yet to be manipulated.
Bluesky has a default feed that is just the posts/reposts of the people who you choose to follow, in reverse chronological order.
No need for an algorithm to decide what is worth seeing.
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#25I don't think that automated filtering on conditionals like "rage politics" is a good idea. At best, you're going to end up with a confusing feed that contains reactions to the outrage without the actual outrage that's driving them; at worst, you're going to end up systematically misinformed on political topics that people find outrageous.
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Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#26This would be great for Reddit - the king of rage politics.
Any social site inclusive of this one ought to have such a feature.
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#27Xtwitter’s own mute words feature is very good . And mute words supports TTL. LLM will have precision / recall issues too – no filtering system will be perfect.
Cleaning up 90% for free is better than burning tons of tokens / GPU / battery to clean 95% (and suffer from false positives).
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#28Adding to the chorus: if you need to apply a solution like this, it's probably time to walk away from the platform. (Well, the right time to walk away would have been years ago, but...)
Network effects are stronger than we are. People are there because people are there.
yea but which people ;) unless you want to in that in-group, crypto, rage and all, better off without it
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#29It should also click "see less often" on every detected bait post. Heals the algo really well if you do that persistently
On Facebook, at least, the click seems to outweigh the feedback.
I say "not interested" to a reel and get more just like it.
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#30Adding to the chorus: if you need to apply a solution like this, it's probably time to walk away from the platform. (Well, the right time to walk away would have been years ago, but...)
All remotely popular online public spaces are completely infiltrated by bots/propagandists/trolls/morons/etc. If you could successfully filter that type of content out you'd end up with a much larger pool of valid/authentic content to access than if you abandoned the space altogether and switched to some very obscure/niche space that's yet to be manipulated.
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