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Comment by tmaly | Hacker News Reader

I must be in his same bucket. All I see our either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump posts. It all seems very polarized to me. Back when I first got on the internet, it was through dial-up modems. I would browse around on gopher and everyone chatted on IRC. It felt more like a community. I think there are still pockets of that out there, its just buried in all the noise.

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Exactly! I am sick of seeing posts related to only Hillary/Trump even when they were not the presumptive leading candidates. Also missed some important updates of friends because FB thinks it's not relevant to me.

Have you tried hiding the Hillary/Trump posts and interacting with the friends whose updates you want to see?

Or you could just install Social Fixer, and control your feed that way. However, in my experience, it's quite hard to produce a better feed than Facebook's AI...

http://socialfixer.com/

Seriously - just hide posts. Facebook's AI is pretty good at allowing you to properly prune your news feed.

You can also game this system by getting others to interact with your posts more often, which will push your posts into their feed at a higher rate.

All the major publications i follow do this. FB doesn't have to hide posts by keyword. The extension sounds good, but as you know, a lot of users including me used it mostly on mobile.

There are definitely pockets of this out there, smaller communities/channels on IRC still have this feel.

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