Navkun

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creator of mindfw.com
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Comment · 2 years 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 all the politics BS.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah I think I'll make the free plan better, thanks for mentioning that.
Comment · 2 years 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'll add that!
Comment · 2 years 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!
Comment · 2 years 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 the UI a ton and taking into account your suggestions for the next version.

In terms of youtube, currently we just take into account the title, sometimes it is visible before hidden/blocked but we usually process within ~700ms so vast majority of the time you wouldn't see it.

Comment · 2 years ago
What's your preferred browser/medium?
Comment · 2 years 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?
Comment · 2 years ago
Honestly that probably is the best alternative, but I still like to see the occasional high-signal post on twitter.
Comment · 2 years ago
Interesting, are you connected with them? what's the best channel to talk?
Comment · 2 years 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 it was real or just BS. Better to just block it all out entirely.

Comment · 2 years 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 :)
Comment · 2 years 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 follow your researchers without all the other stuff :)

Comment · 2 years 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 first place.
Comment · 2 years 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).

If you want to use mindfirewall on your

Android: Download Kiwi browser

iphone: Download Orion browser

These should let you use mindfireall on your phone, although let me know if you run into any issues. My twitter is @ navigatoragi and my email is [email protected]

Comment · 2 years 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 anything I don't want to.

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