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Twitter and reddit suffer from the same problem where even if you spend a lot of time curating your own niche following/subreddit list carefully crafted to avoi
by neither_color 6y ago
Twitter and reddit suffer from the same problem where even if you spend a lot of time curating your own niche following/subreddit list carefully crafted to avoid politics it's almost impossible to ignore other people's hot-takes or the feeds' headlines.
In the end I set up my own nitter instance for twitter and subscribed to some accounts' RSS feed.
For reddit the new layout is terrible and inserts headlines in between comments before you can read all comments. I use old.reddit with reddit enhancement suite and just use self-awareness techniques to remind myself to avoid going to the front page /all and make sure I'm logged in at all times so I only /home with my "boring" subs when I click on Snoo.
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoMuting words will go a long way towards removing hot takes. Every time you see a pattern of tweets on your timeline, just mute the key word. Having lots of false positives is worth it for having equally as many true positives. Of course, if twitter allowed arbitrary "regexp" to block content, that would fix most of the problem. But you will never get the perfect timeline, but you can make it an overall positive experience.
- detaro 6y agoMute words are very useful, yes. You can also turn off retweets from individual users, which also can help cut down on noise.