It is possible to use Twitter without seeing much news/politics. But you can't do it just by choosing your followers carefully, because everyone tweets some BS now and then. The essential feature is "Mute words". I've muted about 100 words like "trump", "biden", the clap and fire emojis, etc.
Filtering the noise is not hard like email spam filtering because there's no adversary actively trying to circumvent your filters, and false positives don't really matter. Now all the garbage disappears and when I visit Twitter I see AI and space and gamedev related stuff instead of news and politics. It's quite nice!
Filtering the noise is not hard like email spam filtering because there's no adversary actively trying to circumvent your filters, and false positives don't really matter. Now all the garbage disappears and when I visit Twitter I see AI and space and gamedev related stuff instead of news and politics. It's quite nice!