Comment by rchaud
4 days ago
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!!")
It's often very frustrating when you care about something that shares a name with the ticker symbol for a popular shitcoin
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.
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.
Then don’t follow them. That’s just encouraging their politics. I mean, vote with your follow.
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