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gorbachevtoday at 5:50 PM1 replyview on HN

I've mentioned this a few times in the past, but I'm convinced that filters that exclude work much better than filters that include.

Instead of algorithms pushing us content it thinks we like (or what the advertisers are paying them to push on us), the relationship should be reversed and the algorithms should push us all content except the content we don't like.

Killfiles on Usenet newsreaders worked this way and they were amazing. I could filter out abusive trolls and topics I wasn't interested in, but I would otherwise get an unfiltered feed.


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femiagbabiakatoday at 6:42 PM

I’m at risk of sounding like an atproto shill at this point, but check out https://www.graze.social/.

I think every social media platform should allow something like this. You can make filters that work in either direction.