Navkun

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by Navkun 2y ago
It depends on what you go on X for, I agree most people probably go on X to read some combination of politics or news but likewise I know many people like myself who just want to use it to read people talking about tech or business without
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by Navkun 2y ago
Yeah I think I'll make the free plan better, thanks for mentioning that.
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by Navkun 2y ago
Forgot to mention we actually process ahead of the viewport as well so other than the first load it's highly unlikely you will see an unfiltered tweet (from personal experience of using it). But thanks for the idea at the end I think I
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by Navkun 2y ago
Well if you set one of your filter tags to 'politics' it will block out ALL tweets related to politics regardless of left or right wing. Hope that helps!
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by Navkun 2y ago
Just checked your account, if you could press the button on the top right and make it look like the power (without the slash) and then save? since it looks like it isn't enabled on your end. And yeah still very early will be improving
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by Navkun 2y ago
What's your preferred browser/medium?
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by Navkun 2y ago
We are going to support images in the next version we release (ETA 1 week), in terms of videos not sure how we'd be able to do that currently but constantly experimenting. Have you tried the extension yet?
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by Navkun 2y ago
Honestly that probably is the best alternative, but I still like to see the occasional high-signal post on twitter.
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by Navkun 2y ago
Interesting, are you connected with them? what's the best channel to talk?
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by Navkun 2y ago
Agreed, one of my favourite blog posts is this Farnam Street one on why you shouldn't read the news https://fs.blog/stop-reading-news/ Like that haitan story every one was talking about last week, no ones knows if
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by Navkun 2y ago
Loved the blog, I also built a version that used a local LLM but wasn't sure how to package that to a wider audience so went with openai instead :)
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by Navkun 2y ago
Agreed, I follow a ton of tech-bros on twitter and their constant ramblings of politics was one of the reason I built my extension in the first place. We have a whitelist coming soon in the next version so hopefully you'll be able to f
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by Navkun 2y ago
Honestly I use those features extensively and it never seems to work properly, there's always a few posts that I dislike and shouldn't have been on my feed (like politics, news etc...); which is why I built mindfirewall in the fir
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by Navkun 2y ago
Had the same thoughts which is why I built mindfirewall in the first place, glad to hear this is something you'd like. Firefox is super easy to support from a chrome extension so will add that next (just didn't have the time yet).
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by Navkun 2y ago
Yeah I used the mute feature extensively (I must have 100+ muted words) but I still saw things that I didn't want to see, quite often, like ramblings of politics and outrage etc... Now I have muted words + mindfirewall, I never see a
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by Navkun 2y ago
I'm 20 an in uni so yes I plan to monetize this so I can stop eating ramen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner :) jokes aside, I understand some users are wary of their data. We don't require any access to your socials since we just
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by Navkun 2y ago
I use it daily for a few hours and that costs us about $0.1-0.15 so not much!
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by Navkun 2y ago
For sure, honestly I hated how much politics I was seeing on twitter and could feel it affect me and my work which got me to build mindfirewall in the first place. Thanks for the feedback also! I'll change the placeholder text for the
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by Navkun 2y ago
Image filtering is one of our next priorities since many harmful tweets have no text but include an image. In terms of open source, I'm 20 and in uni so honestly want to make some money from this and be able to continue to improve it -
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by Navkun 2y ago
Thank you, I will add more clarity on the website now. We use OpenAI's mini model, so your data goes to them (and OpenAI doesn't store data from API req's) and the only things we store are your settings. Also, we don't r
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by Navkun 2y ago
Honestly, doesn't really feel like an echo-chamber. I just block out all news/politics so I don't get funnelled into one way of thinking. My feeds mostly just tech (without the tech-politics guys thankfully).
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Show HN: I removed politics from Twitter with AI(mindfw.com)
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