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Comment by nerdright | Hacker News Reader

I am loving this idea already. My Twitter timeline is a clusterfuck of political contents, which is exhausting. All I want is to indulge myself in entertaining posts and nothing more. I use Twitter as a way to relax and let my mind breathe. So this is wonderful to see!

Any plans to support Firebox on Android? I heavily use Twitter on my phone so would be sweet to install the extension on my phone.

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Twitter already has a built-in solutions to it, and has always had it. Just click on the 3-dot button on the kind of posts you don't want to see, and select "Not interested". And engage more with the kind of posts that you would like to have, and stop liking or reposting political stuff no matter how much you agree with it. The algorithms merely reflect your own patterns and preferences, if you find that exhausting it isn't the algorithm's fault.

My Twitter timeline is close to pristine, and on top of it Twitter has even started to promote posts from smaller accounts on the same topics so that I get even better exposure in things I like. It is awesome. You just need to have some hygiene.

Honestly I use those features extensively and it never seems to work properly, there's always a few posts that I dislike and shouldn't have been on my feed (like politics, news etc...); which is why I built mindfirewall in the first place.

Had the same thoughts which is why I built mindfirewall in the first place, glad to hear this is something you'd like.

Firefox is super easy to support from a chrome extension so will add that next (just didn't have the time yet).

If you want to use mindfirewall on your

Android: Download Kiwi browser

iphone: Download Orion browser

These should let you use mindfireall on your phone, although let me know if you run into any issues. My twitter is @ navigatoragi and my email is nav@mindfw.com

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