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I so miss killfiles and scorefiles, and it's mindboggling how 30+ years after Usenet clients had them they're still virtually non-existent in any social media r

• fragmede 4y ago
  Third party killfiles exist for Twitter. I was made aware of this via one particular topic. https://twitter.com/erininthemorn/status/1566988180678758400?lang=en https://twitter.com/erininthemorn/status/1566988180678758400...
• EricE 4y ago
  The analogs to killfiles do exist in some clients: https://tidbits.com/2015/09/04/how-to-mute-unwanted-tweets-in-tweetbot/ https://tidbits.com/2015/09/04/how-to-mute-unwanted-tweets-i...
• PontifexMinimus 4y ago
  > Usenet clients gave their users so much power And there's the problem: when you give users power, it's harder to sell their eyeballs to advertisers.
• TacticalCoder 4y ago
  > I so miss killfiles and scorefiles, and it's mindboggling how 30+ years after Usenet clients had them they're still virtually non-existent in any social media readers that I'm aware of. Indeed and I don't think people realize how great these were. There's some kind of fallacy you often read when you mention that, which to me can be summed with the following bogus reasoning: "Usenet got killed by the Web, so anything Usenet and Usenet clients had were wrong ways to do things". Killfiles/scorefiles were better than any system I've used since then. Nothing even comes close.