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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
#52I get the idea but honestly asking: if you filter out stuff like this will you end up with a completely blank feed on x? To me it kind of just seems like we're all going to need to curate our own RSS feeds in the future. eg: real people who are insightful, rather than rely on any kind of algorithm.
No, there's approximately just as much technical and interesting content on Twitter as there used to be. Lots of people left, lots of different people joined.
It's just that this content is outnumbered some 100,000:1 now instead of the mere 1000:1 it used to be (ratios made up, but directionally correct.)
From my point of view, HN is trending in that same direction. It's just that the ratios aren't nearly as dramatic.
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Maybe, but no one worth listening to uses bluesky
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#54What I don't understand how difficult it seems to be for some people to simply ignore topics or people they don't like. If an algorithmic feed keeps presenting you with certain topics, it's largely because you're engaging with them. Isn't that on you? I don't use Twitter but I use Tiktok and you know what I do when I see something I'm not interested in? I scroll up. If it's someone who never has anything interesting…
When I was on Mastodon, I followed a bunch of people for their tech expertise: FOSS, security, networking, Linux.
They also posted about other topics where I wasn't interested in their commentary. Even when I agreed, I still didn't want to see it, because I went to Mastodon solely for tech. I had other sources for other topics.
So I added a bunch of filters to exclude those posts. It worked well!
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#55Adding 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...)
You need to curate your algorithm. Took me 10 years before I started blocking aggressively and now my feed is amazing with 90% bangers. Twitter is by far the best product in this space. Every other platform is 2+ weeks behind. Twitter is where the news breaks.
I had a well curated feed too (even used word filters) and yet I felt compelled to pack up and walk away. It was simply not enough.
The negative effect the various drivel had on me was nonlinear. Even if 99% of posts were fine, if that 1% was seriously upsetting, it just ruined the whole thing.
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#56I'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.
Could you expand on this a bit? I'm deeply interested in how one could make a not terrible social network and I'm curious what gets people so unable to walk away
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#57I'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.
Could you expand on this a bit? I'm deeply interested in how one could make a not terrible social network and I'm curious what gets people so unable to walk away
I'm into niche VTubers and other anime stuff. Twitter is pretty much the primary platform for keeping up with Vtubers (besides wherever they stream).
The other platforms don't let you interact with or keep up with the vtubers directly, and often involve just mindlessly repeating the same joke, or they go the opposite route and take things so seriously that all discussion is stifled.
With other anime stuff, Twitter is the easiest way to keep up with the Japanese side of things.
Lately I've learned about tildes and while I haven't looked around much, it has me wondering if maybe invite-only forums with low barriers to entry (and low barriers to being banned) are the way to go.
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#58Adding 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.
You can already follow who you want on Twitter. The thing is, bots etc take their toll even on the good users.
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#59I 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.
> you're going to end up systematically misinformed on political topics that people find outrageous.
That sounds... fine?
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#60Why, when you could just not use X though?