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Comment by delichon | Hacker News Reader

By slapping an extension on X that filters out everything but my white list, it has become a pleasant place. No bots, no ads, no hottest takes from around the web. Just posts from people I want to follow, all high signal to noise. I doubt Elon would approve though.

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Can’t you just using the “Following” list for that instead of the “For You” list?

The following list will still include their retweets, "person you followed liked this random's post", and the ads.

You can also turn off retweets from people you follow.

The "following" tab does not include "person you followed liked this".

You can get rid of that stuff in the Muted Words section of the settings, mute the following terms forever:

  ActivityTweet
  RankedOrganicTweet
  suggest_activity_tweet
  suggest_activity
  suggested_recycled_tweet_inline
  suggested_grouped_tweet_hashtag
  suggest_pyle_tweet
  suggested_rank_organic_tweet
  suggest_ranked_timeline_tweet
  suggest_recycled_tweet
  suggest_sc_tweet
  suggest_recap
  suggest_who_to_follow
  generic_activity_Highlights

Obvious followup: can you share more about your whitelist and how it works?

Control Panel for Twitter

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/control-panel-for-t...

This works great. Thanks!

X also has some block words, and that has worked well for me too.

Can't share sheet, but I use combination of old twitter - allows paginated twitter timeline copy (otherwise twitter unloads tweets), and copycat which copies in markdown, and run it process it through sheets. Outcome is something like this:

https://imgur.com/a/S5xTlPp

I have another sheet with twitter handles and an emoji tag for whitelist and list.

Every morning I'll load old twitter, search for the last processed tweet (saved in C2), usually a few pages of infinite scroll. Copy and past the mark down to F3:F, and run a script to process markdown into a daily twitter digest sorted by tag, handle, tweet in chrono order. Usually 300-600 tweets a day from white list of ~150. Date also links to the original tweet. B3 shows how many new tweets, D3 filters by oldest date. B2 drop down from whitelist to view tweets individual handles. Limitation is old twitter timeline does not show retweets (don't care about), or replies... which I also rarely care about. Every once in a while I'll scrape a users "tweet & replies" timeline to get everything.

Pre API crackdown this use to be a great automated service by streamspigot. There a few months automation worked on sheet script + importrss with nitter instances. Now just PIA, unless I figure out scraping (not that technical).

Solution not as automated, have to maintain process at least every few days (infinite scroll / autopagination bugs out after ~1000 tweets), but takes a few min to get my white list into a managable digest so I don't waste time on the app, which I then listen to via TTS like podcast.

https://streamspigot.appspot.com/tweet-digest/

old twitter https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/old-twitter-layout-...

copycat https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/copycat/jdjbiojkkln...

why don't you just leave the place and not give ad dollars or usage metrics to someone spewing conspiracy theories and extremist content. You're basically on Truth Social now

https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/1elkgmg/anyone_els...

Unfortunately there is no such barrier to my life being impacted by the people who are swayed by this dross, so I can't afford to switch off from it.

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