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I want the ability to turn off political non-advertisement posts.

by nyanpasu64 6y ago

lvs 6y ago
I already have the ability to turn off facebook, and I exercised it years ago.
lostlogin 6y ago
This and turning off adverts would be a nice combination.
pbhjpbhj 6y ago
I'm surprised we don't get more control over our "feeds" on some platforms - it would be useful signal for advertisers I'd imagine, so there's a win-win aspect. On Reddit I'd like to filter out (ie remove) all posts with animal pictures. I keep coming back to Slashdot's model of democratised curation.
- rightbyte 6y ago
  The FB algorithm of feeding you unchronoligal crap instead of what your friends write seems to get more ad views since you scroll more. It is really user hostile and are depleting there user pool in the long term.
- zo1 6y ago
  It's the same reason Google doesn't let you have more control over the search results. If they give out granular-enough permissions / tooling, then plugins and other tools would be somehow able to make your FB/Google experience akin to a completely different site, with very little control on their part. As a bit of an analogy: They want to be the television that you look at your content through as well as the content provider/curator, but they also don't want to be forced into being just the radio-broadcasting infrastructure provider which is all that they really are if you drill down far enough. Oh and ads, of course.
azernik 6y ago
Pretty sure this is an AI-complete problem
- bzb3 6y ago
  This is a regex-complete problem.
  - rightbyte 6y ago
    I mean you could probably do with a 20 word filter list for 90 percent sucess rate.
    - whywhywhywhy 6y ago
      Not even close, I have 3000 accounts blocked/muted on twitter and 300+ words and still my timeline is drenched in politics. Also now some hashtags are able to bypass the mutes if Twitter deems it important you see them. But Twitter knows exactly what is politics because they curate their trends to it so could easily block it out entirely for me but wont for ideological reasons.

I want the ability to turn off political non-advertisement posts.

lvs 6y ago

I already have the ability to turn off facebook, and I exercised it years ago.

lostlogin 6y ago

This and turning off adverts would be a nice combination.

pbhjpbhj 6y ago

I'm surprised we don't get more control over our "feeds" on some platforms - it would be useful signal for advertisers I'd imagine, so there's a win-win aspect. On Reddit I'd like to filter out (ie remove) all posts with animal pictures. I keep coming back to Slashdot's model of democratised curation.

rightbyte 6y ago
The FB algorithm of feeding you unchronoligal crap instead of what your friends write seems to get more ad views since you scroll more. It is really user hostile and are depleting there user pool in the long term.
zo1 6y ago
It's the same reason Google doesn't let you have more control over the search results. If they give out granular-enough permissions / tooling, then plugins and other tools would be somehow able to make your FB/Google experience akin to a completely different site, with very little control on their part. As a bit of an analogy: They want to be the television that you look at your content through as well as the content provider/curator, but they also don't want to be forced into being just the radio-broadcasting infrastructure provider which is all that they really are if you drill down far enough. Oh and ads, of course.

azernik 6y ago

Pretty sure this is an AI-complete problem

bzb3 6y ago
This is a regex-complete problem.
- rightbyte 6y ago
  I mean you could probably do with a 20 word filter list for 90 percent sucess rate.
  - whywhywhywhy 6y ago
    Not even close, I have 3000 accounts blocked/muted on twitter and 300+ words and still my timeline is drenched in politics. Also now some hashtags are able to bypass the mutes if Twitter deems it important you see them. But Twitter knows exactly what is politics because they curate their trends to it so could easily block it out entirely for me but wont for ideological reasons.