Comment by MrJagil | Hacker News Reader

Comment by MrJagil | Hacker News Reader

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I have quite an intricate system build up to get the most quality out of reddit as poossible —it’s still quite bad, but it’s better. I have been thinking of making a blog post or soemthing about it.

- I have a multireddit with select magic the gathering subs

- I have a multireddit with select tech subs

- I have a multireddit with general high quality subs

- My “all” feed has HUNDREDS of subs filtered off. This is a life long excersice. Whenever I see a meme on “all”, i filter that sub away.

I have customized FB as well, removing every CS element on the site except the shortcuts list for groups on the left, where I can acess a few important groups.

My main problem is Twitter now. Why the fuck is every american news in the form of a tweet? The site is awful to use, and I really don’t want anothet SoMe account.

Depending on what exactly you want, nitter.net is a fairly good twitter client, although you need to use an rss reader to follow particular accounts.

wow, thanks.

EDIT: here are ways to automate https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Extensions

I would love to read such a blog post!

Muting words on Twitter might help

I mute 3000+ accounts and 300+ words.

It doesn't really help, every time something happens in America theres a new word you have to mute, also Twitter doesn't respect certain hashtags mutes if they have a custom icon and people retweeting things bypasses the mutes sometimes.

Twitter could easily just solve all this by adding a huge "Politics On/Off" switch in their preferences and then people who for mental health reasons or just because they're not there for that (e.g brand customer support workers) but they'd never do that because I suspect they ideologically think its more important to control the flow of political information that is broadcast to their users even if its at a great detriment to their users mental health.

I don't want to be on Twitter, I was forced on Twitter because RSS was killed by Google Reader and all the journos/bloggers said "Just use Twitter, whats the big deal" now the only way to get the information I used to get before is with an unwanted side order of politics.

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