And then uninstall Chrome, too.
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My dev brain can’t help worrying about the length of the database queries this potentionally exponential block chaining will cause.
Here’s a better idea… Uninstall Twitter.
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Also, some people follow ironically.
Any way to do the same in Facebook? Some of us have grandparents being slowly driven insane by algorithms.
Thankfully it’s not my problem; but given Twitter’s scale I suspect that your options tend to be either “blunt instrument”, “implement reasonably sophisticated expert system”; or “use self as reasonably sophisticated expert system; make so many saving throws against wisdom or sanity(whichever is lower at the time)”.
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I think that the issue isn’t so much that anyone thinks that this fairly crude heuristic is really what you’d want for the job(hence the whitelisting mechanisms that are already included and the speculation about whether more will be needed); but that Twitter presents a situation where giving everyone their hearing is a problem that likely exceeds a human’s available time(even before one encounters the problem of boots and sock puppets and new account creation being fairly trivial for those so motivated); and where one has limited data available to evaluate something on without burning your time on it(which is what you are trying to avoid).
If this were a matter of deciding ‘guilt’; using such a weak heuristic would be a matter of concern. As it is it’s pretty much in the same category as spam filtering, where you are attempting to determine what is worth time when you simply don’t have enough to avoid using se sort of triage mechanism that would look really bad if you were doing it in court.
Honestly, I’d say that this sort of thing is a useful illustration of why smaller ‘chambers’ ought to get more credit than they often do in the concern over ‘echo chambers’: it is true that many of the tools for creating small chambers exert enough selection bias to be likely to produce echo chambers, and that is worth keeping an eye on; but creating environments where the scale allows someone with limited time to realistically examine much of what goes on there, and ideally be reasonably confident that it is produced by other people rather than boots, sock puppets, and trolley accounts is a way(potentially the way, though I’m open to suggestions if anyone cleverer than I has anything for the purpose) to allow people to avoid dismissing things out of hand and creating a nice cozy bubble for themselves.
Once you hit the scale where it’s a spam-class problem there simply isn’t any alternative to ignoring almost everything based on relatively cursory automated judgement(even if you tried to be fair by not filtering your de-facto filter would be ‘ignore everything after I run out of time during a given session’). This extension is cruder than one might like(a common problem for the various proprietary post-email systems that were often thrown together with weak platform-provided tools and limited access by third party tools to the metadata one would need to do better); but that doesn’t change the fact that Twitter is well into the wrong side of ‘is a spam filtering problem rather than a matter of guilt and innocence’.
It’s easy. Edit their .hosts file.
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
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As long as he tells them. Otherwise that’ll just drive grandma and grandpa insane in another way, when they find they can’t get to “the Facebook” no matter what they do.
“Hadn’t you heard, Grandma? Trump shut them down.”
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While you’re at it…
Primary access mode is via iPad, I think. really I need something I can slip on there unobtrusively that blacklists a bunch of UKIP/Alt-Right/Muslim-baiting goons.
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I haven’t used it, but there’s an extension that supposedly works with Safari called SocialFixer you might try.
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