Navkun

It depends on what you go on X for, I agree most people probably go on X to read some combination of politics or news but likewise I know many people like myself who just want to use it to read people talking about tech or business without all the politics BS.

Yeah I think I'll make the free plan better, thanks for mentioning that.

Forgot to mention we actually process ahead of the viewport as well so other than the first load it's highly unlikely you will see an unfiltered tweet (from personal experience of using it). But thanks for the idea at the end I think I'll add that!

Well if you set one of your filter tags to 'politics' it will block out ALL tweets related to politics regardless of left or right wing. Hope that helps!

Just checked your account, if you could press the button on the top right and make it look like the power (without the slash) and then save? since it looks like it isn't enabled on your end.

And yeah still very early will be improving the UI a ton and taking into account your suggestions for the next version.

In terms of youtube, currently we just take into account the title, sometimes it is visible before hidden/blocked but we usually process within ~700ms so vast majority of the time you wouldn't see it.

What's your preferred browser/medium?

We are going to support images in the next version we release (ETA 1 week), in terms of videos not sure how we'd be able to do that currently but constantly experimenting. Have you tried the extension yet?

Honestly that probably is the best alternative, but I still like to see the occasional high-signal post on twitter.

Interesting, are you connected with them? what's the best channel to talk?

Agreed, one of my favourite blog posts is this Farnam Street one on why you shouldn't read the news

https://fs.blog/stop-reading-news/

Like that haitan story every one was talking about last week, no ones knows if it was real or just BS. Better to just block it all out entirely.

Loved the blog, I also built a version that used a local LLM but wasn't sure how to package that to a wider audience so went with openai instead :)

Agreed, I follow a ton of tech-bros on twitter and their constant ramblings of politics was one of the reason I built my extension in the first place.

We have a whitelist coming soon in the next version so hopefully you'll be able to follow your researchers without all the other stuff :)

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

Yeah I used the mute feature extensively (I must have 100+ muted words) but I still saw things that I didn't want to see, quite often, like ramblings of politics and outrage etc...

Now I have muted words + mindfirewall, I never see anything I don't want to.

I'm 20 an in uni so yes I plan to monetize this so I can stop eating ramen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner :)

jokes aside, I understand some users are wary of their data. We don't require any access to your socials since we just read the tweets directly on your viewport. The only data we store are your settings. Your requests go through OpenAI (and they don't store your data either).

For something fully local, I actually did build it where I used a local LLM model on the computer to do the same thing; how much would you pay for that?

I use it daily for a few hours and that costs us about $0.1-0.15 so not much!

For sure, honestly I hated how much politics I was seeing on twitter and could feel it affect me and my work which got me to build mindfirewall in the first place.

Thanks for the feedback also!

I'll change the placeholder text for the next release to make it more clear.

For the free tier, I think a trial might work better as you've suggested so they can use the other platforms.

Image filtering is one of our next priorities since many harmful tweets have no text but include an image.

In terms of open source, I'm 20 and in uni so honestly want to make some money from this and be able to continue to improve it - not sure how I could do that with open source.

Thank you, I will add more clarity on the website now. We use OpenAI's mini model, so your data goes to them (and OpenAI doesn't store data from API req's) and the only things we store are your settings.

Also, we don't require access to any of your socials, we process the tweets directly in your viewport as you would have seen them.

For example we work on reddit and youtube as well and it works without logging in.

But thanks for the feedback!

Honestly, doesn't really feel like an echo-chamber. I just block out all news/politics so I don't get funnelled into one way of thinking. My feeds mostly just tech (without the tech-politics guys thankfully).