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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 weregiraffe »

unselect5917 wrote: post #79
SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

"free speech is kill"

"no"

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

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Post by stevage »

rchaud wrote: post #66

Hasn'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.

I have spent a long time maintaining mute word lists but it's never more than about 80% effective because obviously there's a lot more to content than mere keywords. Tons of false positives (trump as a verb) and negatives ("he's blocking the strait!!")

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

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Post by stevage »

dmix wrote: post #67
rchaud wrote: post #66

Hasn'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's a ton of effort. And often I do want to follow someone for their tech content, I just don't want their politics.

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

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Post by jachee »

allanmacgregor wrote: post #53
jachee wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Incorrect. William Gibson does. And he’s definitely worth listening to.

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

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Post by simianwords »

kelseyfrog wrote: post #70
wktmeow wrote: post #60

Why, 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.

This is a clear example of purity spiral groupthink.

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

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Post by jim33442 »

hunterpayne wrote: post #39
starik36 wrote: post #17

This would be great for Reddit - the king of rage politics.

The problem with Reddit is different. Poor quality human moderation is the problem there. Basically who has 10 hours a day to read Reddit? Answer, terminally online bubble people who have no business moderating other's posts. Maybe if the LLM could completely bypass the moderators then it could work though.

When I tried Reddit a while back, that problem showed up even with no moderation action being taken. I guess cause an obsessed person will use the site like 1000x more than a regular person, they end up being the "majority." The voting system also encourages bad behavior.

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

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Post by jim33442 »

celeritascelery wrote: post #36
antonymoose wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any social site inclusive of this one ought to have such a feature.

Agreed. I am getting tired of half the HN posts being about politics. I come here to get away from that stuff, but it is becoming a greater portion of the content.

HN posts are mostly not about politics, at least not on the top page. Sometimes a non-politics post ends up getting politics comments though.

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

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Post by dwroberts »

unselect5917 wrote: post #78
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.

Is this the X marketing team or something? You’ve posted about discussing BBQ with different nations twice in the comments here

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

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Post by hundson2020 »

Animats wrote: post #64

Don'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-twdig…

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