Hasn't everybody already figured out how to do this with a Mute Word list? The topics and names that trend on Twitter are not exactly a mystery. Every post of that nature follows a predictable pattern of key phrases/terms plus stupid emojis in order to "go viral", and can be filtered out easily.

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stevage 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I have spent a long time maintaining mute word lists but it's never more than about 80% effective because obviously there's a lot more to content than mere keywords. Tons of false positives (trump as a verb) and negatives ("he's blocking the strait!!")

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bastawhiz 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's often very frustrating when you care about something that shares a name with the ticker symbol for a popular shitcoin

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dmix 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You could also just be careful who you follow and constantly curate.

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rchaud 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

That doesn't work, regular people who aren't the audience for ragebait don't realize that quoting ragebait tweets with a sardonic reply is a positive signal for the algorithm to circulate that tweet even further. Mute is the only way to go.

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stevage 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That's a ton of effort. And often I do want to follow someone for their tech content, I just don't want their politics.

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deafpolygon 2 days ago | parent [-]

Then don’t follow them. That’s just encouraging their politics. I mean, vote with your follow.

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stevage 2 days ago | parent [-]

I'm not saying I disagree with their politics, I just don't want to read it. But the same would apply even if I did disagree - you're just promoting further division.

	▲	angoragoats 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"Promoting further division" sounds like a reasonable thing to strive to prevent, but I think the paradox of tolerance applies here. For example, DHH was a brilliant programmer who created Rails. I say was, because now he is a self-admitted white nationalist. I no longer care about his technical work or opinions, because if he has ventured so off-course so as to convince himself that white nationalism is worth supporting, I must necessarily question his judgment on technical matters as well. To tolerate his white nationalism and continue to promote and condone his work would be helping to further the spread of white nationalism, which I find abhorrent and unacceptable in any form. Trying to prevent further division is completely reasonable when you're talking about opinions like "we should have lower taxes" or "we should spend more money on schools." It is not reasonable when your political opponent literally wants to do genocide.