[arjie]

I had a similar experience when I stopped using Twitter. I only go back because a friend of mine posts there and I really like his posts. Occasionally I flip to my Following or For You tabs and they look incredibly sophomoric. It's 40 and 50 year olds using teenager memes and tropes. Then I realized, that a similar sort of mechanic applies on Hacker News so I decided to aggressively killfile users who annoy me one way or another. Now, most HN comment sections have a bunch of comments missing but the remainder are surprisingly decent.

The downside is that I now interact with HN a lot more, which I was hoping would not happen.

[prmoustache]

Can't you follow someone without using twitter?

I know that with mastodon I can just subscribe to the rss feed of anyone without using an account, visiting a server's feed or actually firing up a fediverse compatible app

[nicbou]

It’s almost impossible to browse twitter without an account anymore. If you get a direct link to a tweet you can see it, but every click will prompt you to log in. Same for other platforms.

[LightBug1]

Same, I have about 5 friends I follow - but I do it via bookmarked xcancel so I feel less sullied by the experience.

[throwaway290]

how do you killfile HN users?

[arjie]

I use personal software: https://overmod.org/

If I'm being entirely honest I made it in a very 'scratch-my-own-itch' way so you're better off just writing it yourself. Example idiosyncratic choices I went with: all lists are public, allow subscribing to other people's lists, no login required for lists, only Google Chrome support. I doubt anyone else shares those preferences.

[xnorswap]

If you add a LICENSE or CONTRIBUTORS file, I'd be tempted to fork or contribute.

( You're perfectly okay to not want either of those things, of course. )

[arjie]

I added a CC0 LICENSE file. I’ll sort the other stuff out as soon as I’ve driven back from our family road trip.

Oh no, I would love for others to also be protected from detectable infohazards, so I’d like to reduce the barrier to entry for that. And I’d love any participation from you, of course.

[leobg]

I like your killfile lists

> Roshan's Socialism Slop

I omce made a podcast screener for my kids, and that was a category I screened for there as well.

[arjie]

I’m glad you like it. Besides the entire promotion of external loci of control I find the repetitiveness so grating.