👋 Hi Product Hunters! 🤔 Problem It seems like every week there's a new hot political issue that dominates the social timeline of Facebook and Twitter. I respect the people that do try to change things. But for me, news about Trump, North Korea and other stuff I can't affect only makes me more scared, angry and feeling powerless. 💡 Idea I've been experimenting with muting political keywords from my Twitter timeline for the last few months. And it's been working well. I feel less powerless and I can spend my time on actually affecting change in the communities where I am on a local scale with the people around me. It's more effective for me than trying to change things on a global scale. The peace I get from not seeing politics on social media makes me more calm and gives me more time left to actually affect change around me. Where I actually have reach. 🛠 Solution I created an app based on this premise. It collectively crowdsources muted word lists and lets you add them to filter your Twitter timeline. I hope to add an extension so it works for Facebook soon too! P.S. I understand if you disagree with the premise of this app. It's a touchy subject and we all have our own ways of dealing with it.

This is a tough one... on one hand I like it but on the other hand it can be used to further push droves of people deeper into their clueless echo chambers of misinformation (I hate the term Fake news) dictated by our confirmation bias tendencies. I feel torn because I have been rather public in my demands to Flipboard to give us users an option to do just this....the ability to filter certain subjects from their feed. They have responded saying it is on the road map and it will take some time....which I don't believe. I think we should be able to have more control over our filter bubbles....especially in light of what's going on politically these says with spreading censorship by the left. We cannot continue to be ostriches by sticking our heads in the ground and that is my fear with this type of tool. We ALL need to meet in the middle and have unpleasant and sometimes eye-opening and mind-changing discussions. Otherwise we should just call this tool SafeSpaceMaker. What do you think?

Wow. You've made something simple, yet helpful again. All cred to you! How long did it take from idea to launch?

@levelsio is a product-making machine 😮 Great solution to an interesting problem! Looking forward to trying it out.

This is awesome! Is there a way to bulk delete after adding "Top 100" automatically or update the muted list once a week?

Although so quickly executed (key knowledge was already in place and on point) this is the very attitude with which every single app should be thought out and researched BEFORE it gets developed. Even more important than the app itself is the statement you deliver by building something so purpose-driven, worrying about problem-solving the most expensive thing ever: user's time and focus. Well done! Honest congratulations mate. GREAT job. If I may predict the future for the app/extension: geolocation functionality so that users may have their "100 keywords" in their own language, context and region.

I'd like to not rely on the majority of a website to define what information I shouldn't see. I'd like to handle it myself, as otherwise, it's censorship. That's why I won't use the Bookmarklet button. At the same time, I can pick some words to manually mute from the list, so still useful. P.S. Impressed by the speed you release projects! How are you planning to monetize it?

Blocking politics is cool, I'm not much of a politico either. But what about the other types of unwanted topics? For example, I'm waiting for all the episodes of GoT to have been aired so I can bingewatch it. How can I use this tool to block out any spoilers?

@levelsio great idea! Any chance you'll extend this to Facebook? Seems like it would work great there as well 🙂

Useful bookmarklet. No doubts of that. Although I think it should nicely have word tops depending on the language. In my case, almost 50% of the people I follow are spanish speakers, which makes me wonder also about muting the top 100 words in spanish (meanwhile, I'll do it manually). Would it make sense to analyze also google trends, you think, to mute what is politically and from the media point of view, more annoying? What do you think? Congrats!

engagement seems like it started and ended with the day it got big on product hunt. I recommend an email newsletter called "the new paper" which seeks to limit bias as much as possible and give summarized news. I get to hear things factually without analysis.

Pros:

Gave me good ideas to reclaim my Twitter. I can always hop on my second account if there's a good reason.

Cons:

- subject to "the reddit problem" https://youtu.be/rPiF475oSc4: therefore visibility for both upvotes and downvotes would be nice

HAHAH! Love the Gif "fake news" ... "trump" I literally had this idea yesterday: https://twitter.com/pixelmelter/...

Being a fan of filtering out unnecessary information I very welcome this product. Too much irrelevant information is a disease of our times. Bravo, Pieter! My upvote is with you.

I am reminded of one of my favorite Chrome Extensions... https://chrome.google.com/websto...

*sigh of relief* This is exactly what I needed and didn't have the tech skills to even express as a request. Taking back my feed is really what it is. Up until now I've been manually muting, turning off RTs, unfollowing folks. It's just too much. I wish there was a feature of "Mute 90%" so I don't block it out completely. Thank you!

@levelsio It might be late, but how do I get this mute button to work in Twitter exactly?

There is power in being deliberate in what you consume, but it's also a large responsibility to go out and find out what it is you don't know.

It's very possible that people could mute everything and block opportunities or information that could broaden their worldview.

Pros:

It's empowering to not be exposed to too much of what we can't change.

Cons:

It leaves it up to people to find what missing in their information bubble.

Perfect 👌

Great tool to avoid all politics shit in twitter!

When a Product Hunter takes his #echochamber to the next level.