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By slapping an extension on X that filters out everything but my white list, it has become a pleasant place. No bots, no ads, no hottest takes from around the w

By slapping an extension on X that filters out everything but my white list, it has become a pleasant place. No bots, no ads, no hottest takes from around the web. Just posts from people I want to follow, all high signal to noise. I doubt Elon would approve though.

mkmk 2y ago
Obvious followup: can you share more about your whitelist and how it works?
- delichon 2y ago
  Control Panel for Twitter https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/control-panel-for-twitter/kpmjjdhbcfebfjgdnpjagcndoelnidfj?hl=en&pli=1 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/control-panel-for-t...
  - 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago
    This works great. Thanks!
- deleted 2y ago
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- scottyah 2y ago
  X also has some block words, and that has worked well for me too.
- maxglute 2y ago
  Can't share sheet, but I use combination of old twitter - allows paginated twitter timeline copy (otherwise twitter unloads tweets), and copycat which copies in markdown, and run it process it through sheets. Outcome is something like this: https://imgur.com/a/S5xTlPp https://imgur.com/a/S5xTlPp I have another sheet with twitter handles and an emoji tag for whitelist and list. Every morning I'll load old twitter, search for the last processed tweet (saved in C2), usually a few pages of infinite scroll. Copy and past the mark down to F3:F, and run a script to process markdown into a daily twitter digest sorted by tag, handle, tweet in chrono order. Usually 300-600 tweets a day from white list of ~150. Date also links to the original tweet. B3 shows how many new tweets, D3 filters by oldest date. B2 drop down from whitelist to view tweets individual handles. Limitation is old twitter timeline does not show retweets (don't care about), or replies... which I also rarely care about. Every once in a while I'll scrape a users "tweet & replies" timeline to get everything. Pre API crackdown this use to be a great automated service by streamspigot. There a few months automation worked on sheet script + importrss with nitter instances. Now just PIA, unless I figure out scraping (not that technical). Solution not as automated, have to maintain process at least every few days (infinite scroll / autopagination bugs out after ~1000 tweets), but takes a few min to get my white list into a managable digest so I don't waste time on the app, which I then listen to via TTS like podcast. https://streamspigot.appspot.com/tweet-digest/ https://streamspigot.appspot.com/tweet-digest/ old twitter https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/old-twitter-layout-2024/jgejdcdoeeabklepnkdbglgccjpdgpmf https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/old-twitter-layout-... copycat https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/copycat/jdjbiojkklnaeoanimopafmnmhldejbg?hl=en https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/copycat/jdjbiojkkln...
brightball 2y ago
Can’t you just using the “Following” list for that instead of the “For You” list?
- ceejayoz 2y ago
  The following list will still include their retweets, "person you followed liked this random's post", and the ads.
  - delecti 2y ago
    You can also turn off retweets from people you follow. The "following" tab does not include "person you followed liked this".
  - anigbrowl 2y ago
    You can get rid of that stuff in the Muted Words section of the settings, mute the following terms forever: ActivityTweet RankedOrganicTweet suggest_activity_tweet suggest_activity suggested_recycled_tweet_inline suggested_grouped_tweet_hashtag suggest_pyle_tweet suggested_rank_organic_tweet suggest_ranked_timeline_tweet suggest_recycled_tweet suggest_sc_tweet suggest_recap suggest_who_to_follow generic_activity_Highlights
bratbag 2y ago
Unfortunately there is no such barrier to my life being impacted by the people who are swayed by this dross, so I can't afford to switch off from it.
hn1986 2y ago
why don't you just leave the place and not give ad dollars or usage metrics to someone spewing conspiracy theories and extremist content. You're basically on Truth Social now https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/1elkgmg/anyone_else_notice_elon_turned_up_the_trump_dial/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/1elkgmg/anyone_els...

mkmk 2y ago

Obvious followup: can you share more about your whitelist and how it works?

delichon 2y ago
Control Panel for Twitter https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/control-panel-for-twitter/kpmjjdhbcfebfjgdnpjagcndoelnidfj?hl=en&pli=1 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/control-panel-for-t...
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago
  This works great. Thanks!
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scottyah 2y ago
X also has some block words, and that has worked well for me too.
maxglute 2y ago
Can't share sheet, but I use combination of old twitter - allows paginated twitter timeline copy (otherwise twitter unloads tweets), and copycat which copies in markdown, and run it process it through sheets. Outcome is something like this: https://imgur.com/a/S5xTlPp https://imgur.com/a/S5xTlPp I have another sheet with twitter handles and an emoji tag for whitelist and list. Every morning I'll load old twitter, search for the last processed tweet (saved in C2), usually a few pages of infinite scroll. Copy and past the mark down to F3:F, and run a script to process markdown into a daily twitter digest sorted by tag, handle, tweet in chrono order. Usually 300-600 tweets a day from white list of ~150. Date also links to the original tweet. B3 shows how many new tweets, D3 filters by oldest date. B2 drop down from whitelist to view tweets individual handles. Limitation is old twitter timeline does not show retweets (don't care about), or replies... which I also rarely care about. Every once in a while I'll scrape a users "tweet & replies" timeline to get everything. Pre API crackdown this use to be a great automated service by streamspigot. There a few months automation worked on sheet script + importrss with nitter instances. Now just PIA, unless I figure out scraping (not that technical). Solution not as automated, have to maintain process at least every few days (infinite scroll / autopagination bugs out after ~1000 tweets), but takes a few min to get my white list into a managable digest so I don't waste time on the app, which I then listen to via TTS like podcast. https://streamspigot.appspot.com/tweet-digest/ https://streamspigot.appspot.com/tweet-digest/ old twitter https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/old-twitter-layout-2024/jgejdcdoeeabklepnkdbglgccjpdgpmf https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/old-twitter-layout-... copycat https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/copycat/jdjbiojkklnaeoanimopafmnmhldejbg?hl=en https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/copycat/jdjbiojkkln...

brightball 2y ago

Can’t you just using the “Following” list for that instead of the “For You” list?

ceejayoz 2y ago
The following list will still include their retweets, "person you followed liked this random's post", and the ads.
- delecti 2y ago
  You can also turn off retweets from people you follow. The "following" tab does not include "person you followed liked this".
- anigbrowl 2y ago
  You can get rid of that stuff in the Muted Words section of the settings, mute the following terms forever: ActivityTweet RankedOrganicTweet suggest_activity_tweet suggest_activity suggested_recycled_tweet_inline suggested_grouped_tweet_hashtag suggest_pyle_tweet suggested_rank_organic_tweet suggest_ranked_timeline_tweet suggest_recycled_tweet suggest_sc_tweet suggest_recap suggest_who_to_follow generic_activity_Highlights

bratbag 2y ago

Unfortunately there is no such barrier to my life being impacted by the people who are swayed by this dross, so I can't afford to switch off from it.

hn1986 2y ago

why don't you just leave the place and not give ad dollars or usage metrics to someone spewing conspiracy theories and extremist content. You're basically on Truth Social now https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/1elkgmg/anyone_else_notice_elon_turned_up_the_trump_dial/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/1elkgmg/anyone_els...