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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

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Post by errantmind »

You can also get excellent results with User Scripts that connect to a local language model.

1. Run LM Studio (download the Gemma 4 model), which has a 'local server' w/ API.

2. Use a more powerful LLM to write User Scripts (Greasemonkey, etc) to do whatever you want on any website you go to. Instruct it to connect to LM Studio.

3. Classify and highlight posts / comments based on any criteria that suits you. Summarize, delete from the DOM, etc., Just have fun.

Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

jjfoooo4 wrote: post #59
SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #10

I 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?

I would emphasize misinformed, not uninformed. If Policy X has 30% of people politely supportive, 20% of people politely opposed, and 50% of people incandescently furious about it, you're going to mistakenly think it has majority support.

Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

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Post by unselect5917 »

bowserbrowser wrote: post #74

There would be absolutely nothing of substance left on X without crypto and rage politics

America and Japan have been discussing BBQ for about a week and. And the Japanese have just discovered ranch dressing. It's hilarious to watch.

Russians recently joined in and, they're fuckin' hilarious in a way that only Russians could be: https://imgur.com/GaTnQk7.jpg

The people who hate Musk/X always out themselves by flagrantly lying about it/him.

Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

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Post by unselect5917 »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #76
jjfoooo4 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you're going to end up systematically misinformed on political topics that people find outrageous. That sounds... fine?

I would emphasize mis informed, not un informed. If Policy X has 30% of people politely supportive, 20% of people politely opposed, and 50% of people incandescently furious about it, you're going to mistakenly think it has majority support.

This is exactly the reason I used to be almost exclusively an r/all browser back when reddit was worth using. I didn't want a curated feed tailored to my beliefs. I wanted to know what was going on. Then in ~2015 free speech was killed, and it seemed like every new feature added was one that increased censorship. Like post locking wasn't a thing the petty tyrants could do. Now they lock posts and sticky their midwit opinion at the top of the thread, and ban whole communities with racist biases. So I strived to be less of a redditor and quit completely when they killed Apollo & third party apps. No use for the site anymore.

/rant

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