Re:Who Filters Your News? Why We Built Gobo.social
by twiceaday on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:11PM
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The nice thing about Reddit is that content is strongly encouraged to group into subreddits making it easy to filter. My only problem is the opt-in model. I'd rather it be an opt-out model, show me r/all minus the blacklisted subreddits. They added a filter to r/all recently but it is limited to only 100 subreddits and is a pain to manage on mobile. So I wrote a script that periodically signs in as me and hides posts from subreddits I've blacklisted. It was initially getting the list from a google sheet but I've recently done something smarter. I have the script auto-subscribe to all new subreddits it sees on the front page and then monitor whether I stay subscribed. If it notices that I manually unsubscribed from a subreddit it takes that as a sign to blacklist that subreddit. It works amazingly.
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Re:Who Filters Your News? Why We Built Gobo.social
by SpeciesInvader on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @09:40PM
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Could you share the source on that? I'm removing Reddit from many aspects of life but still like several subs but an overwhelmed and don't need all.
Re:Who Filters Your News? Why We Built Gobo.social
by twiceaday on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @12:52PM
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https://pastebin.com/tLQ8LTvp
It uses praw [1] for the API.