It should also click "see less often" on every detected bait post. Heals the algo really well if you do that persistently
The fact that you use the word 'persistently' seems to somewhat (or completely) undermine what your point.
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
#62Then what shall remain?
AI
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#63Adding 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...)
I was actually thinking of making a similar app for hacker news comments. Should we all quit hacker news too?
HN doesn't need it. I'll read this site, not gonna bother with Twitter or Reddit though.
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#64Don't you have to pay Twitter to get programmatic access to a X feed? [1]
The documentation mentions using the "Twitter adapter", which uses a paid API.[1]
Using an unofficial client has been a TOS violation for many years now, since Twitter killed off TweetDeck.[2]
I used to have an ad filter for Twitter, but gave it up a decade ago when they changed the TOS.
[1] https://docs.x.com/overview
[2] https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/legal-twitte...
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#65I 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…
It's the ratio that counts the most. You seem to be implying TwiX is getting an increasingly bad ratio. That would imply, to me, an increasingly limited lifespan for encouraging quality.
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#66Hasn't everybody already figured out how to do this with a Mute Word list? The topics and names that trend on Twitter are not exactly a mystery. Every post of that nature follows a predictable pattern of key phrases/terms plus stupid emojis in order to "go viral", and can be filtered out easily.
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#67Hasn't everybody already figured out how to do this with a Mute Word list? The topics and names that trend on Twitter are not exactly a mystery. Every post of that nature follows a predictable pattern of key phrases/terms plus stupid emojis in order to "go viral", and can be filtered out easily.
You could also just be careful who you follow and constantly curate.
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#68Hasn't everybody already figured out how to do this with a Mute Word list? The topics and names that trend on Twitter are not exactly a mystery. Every post of that nature follows a predictable pattern of key phrases/terms plus stupid emojis in order to "go viral", and can be filtered out easily.
It's often very frustrating when you care about something that shares a name with the ticker symbol for a popular shitcoin
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#69Hasn't everybody already figured out how to do this with a Mute Word list? The topics and names that trend on Twitter are not exactly a mystery. Every post of that nature follows a predictable pattern of key phrases/terms plus stupid emojis in order to "go viral", and can be filtered out easily.
You could also just be careful who you follow and constantly curate.
That doesn't work, regular people who aren't the audience for ragebait don't realize that quoting ragebait tweets with a sardonic reply is a positive signal for the algorithm to circulate that tweet even further. Mute is the only way to go.
Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
#70Why, when you could just not use X though?
The only thing stopping me from eating shit is the smell, taste, texture, and possibly of disease. But if all those where removed I'd be the first to chow down.