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Show HN: XDeck – An ad-blocking client app for macOS, like TweetDeck
Hi everyone,
XDeck is an client app for macOS as a TweetDeck alternative, with Ad-Blocking!
I developed this for myself after feeling disappointed that TweetDeck has become a paid service.
I hope you find it useful too.
- genericacct 2y agoI miss tweetdeck... maybe not $8/mo miss, but maybe 9.99/yr miss it
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- greggh 2y agoIf the ads on Twitter were even close to relevant I wouldn't mind just scrolling past them. But every ad I see lately is just right-wing idiocy like PragerU.
- askl 2y agoWho else would still want to advertise on twitter?
- LukaD 2y agoI don’t understand why people even use twitter at all at this point.
- 2malaq 2y agoBubbles, my friend.
- walthamstow 2y agoAddiction to scrolling
- _lvbh 2y agoThat’s probably not it. I still have Twitter because the people I follow are on there (mostly music artists). I’ve never opened the algorithmic feed. There is also a huge chance that much of the activity you see are bots. I have 0 posts and 2000 followers somehow. No way they’re human
- walthamstow 2y agoIt's not it for you, but it sounds like you are more of an edge case. I think it is true for a lot of people. I don't see any activity myself, I don't use Twitter any more. I had an addiction which peaked with the UK 2019 election and I had to quit after that. It's an awful drug which gives no high and terrible side effects.
- jeffhuys 2y agoPlease be aware that the both of you don’t know, unless you’re not mentioning any studies on purpose. You’re both projecting your own subjective experience onto an entire community.
- _lvbh 2y agoYou’re right. Did some googling and it seems I’m wrong. https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/doomscrolling-impact-users-mood-2024 https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/doomscrolling-impact... > 53% of Gen Z “doomscroll” and 31% of adults in general do so. Now I understand how Facebook/Twitter are worth so much. This is crazy
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- itsoktocry 2y ago>I don’t understand why people even use twitter at all at this point. Because it hasn't really changed for me. Some things are better (less censorship), some things are worse (bots and spam). But the overall signal is the same.
- zogrodea 2y agoAll my friends are on there and haven't switched to another site. Some nice features are definitely getting removed from it though (like being able to hide a tweet so only a subset of your followers can see it).
- henriquecm8 2y agoI use mostly to follow indie game devs, to follow their progress and not miss announcements of release dates, and also a few artists.
- huimang 2y agoJapan's crazy mascot, Chiitan, the god of advertising
- itsoktocry 2y ago>But every ad I see lately is just right-wing idiocy like PragerU. Any ideas why the algorithm is feeding you those ads? I agree the ads suck, but I'm mostly getting drop-shipping junk and crypto.
- bluish29 2y agoI really think the question is why wouldn't you block those ads using something like ublock origin or adguard (admittly you will lose using the app which is better for some people) but you solve your greatest point of pain.
- jeffhuys 2y agoI think the original question is valid here - I also don’t get any right-wing ads. I guess that is because I never interact with those kind of post, also not negatively, exactly BECAUSE I want to see less of them.
- dwighttk 2y agoTwitter still allows you to mute/block any advertiser… I’ve seen fewer big companies that make a million throwaway accounts for advertising to make it hard to mute. Any ad account I notice more than a couple times gets muted, Twitter asks me if I want to upgrade to paid and I ignore that.
- thedumbname 2y agoIt show me white screen, is it expected?
- thedumbname 2y agoTotally forgot that X is blocked in my country, but app does not aware and does not display any connection errors
- sdfhbdf 2y agoPakistan?
- rcarmo 2y agoWell, I certaintly find it useful since I’ve removed X from my phone but still want to peer inside on occasion (a few people whose posts I value refuse to move to Mastodon and I don’t want to use Threads or Bluesy), so this is pretty useful. The ads have become so obnoxious that being able to just have “Following” open without hassles feels refreshing.
- dwighttk 2y agoRefuse? Or tried and it was so complicated it didn’t work?
- kstrauser 2y agoIf you can use Twitter and email, you're capable of using Mastodon.
- rcarmo 2y agoTell that to the folk who are still on Twitter…
- dwighttk 2y agoIt’s been ~three years since the last try, but I’ve made multiple mastodon accounts and none of them took
- adleyjulian 2y agoAre you saying this is due to not having an interest in the people posting on Mastodon or due to a difficulty in using Mastodon itself?
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- brianjking 2y agoAre we violating TOS by using this?
- mtnGoat 2y agoIf you are hiding ads, chances are high you are violating TOS.
- phoronixrly 2y agoI wouldn't have it any other way
- 1oooqooq 2y agobarely. you're more helping them by keeping the network effect going despite how hostile to users they make it. for one high quality person they retain thanks to this, they can abuse other one thousand who will also stay because of that person. basically, they will moan it will be shut down but there won't be any true effort
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoAs Twitter and Reddit were going user-hostile past the point of no return last year I fought it for a while with actions like these. But eventually giving up and ditching them completely was unavoidable and, in hindsight, freeing.
- dotcoma 2y agoThe same is true of Facebook, Google etc.
- prmoustache 2y agoFor some reason, the fight of most social media against any third party way to access them comfortably helped people like me finding the motivation to get rid of them altogether.
- kstrauser 2y agoSame. I left Reddit when they killed Apollo. In retrospect it was a blessing.
- Groxx 2y agoYep. Instagram has been so hostile up logged-out people that it drove me away, and I actively recommend businesses avoid. Prior to this, quite a few small businesses I ran across used Instagram as their website, but it's completely useless if people can't see anything.
- soylentcola 2y agoPretty much. I ditched my Facebook account in 2017 and never really messed with IG. At some point I just wasn't seeing much of what I liked about the site initially (a feed of what friends and acquaintances were up to) and didn't find it worth the tradeoff - lots of companies are skeevy, but I might continue using their products if I get something out of them. Didn't find FB to be worth it. But still, I'm in a few long running group chats with friends and maybe 60-70% of the links people post are to Meta sites. Can't access even though it's almost always just something reposted from a (openly accessible) website. The bots and the spam ruining platforms is bad enough. Putting such a large chunk of actual online human conversation behind login-walls has seriously put a dent in things. I feel like this is the other half of the whole "search engines suck now because of ML-generated/SEO-optimized junk" argument. There's nothing to balance that stuff out because you need a sketchy persistent, personally-identifiable account to access the rest.
- barlog 2y agoFolks, let's talk about XDeck XD