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tolerance.lol

2 points by wduncan · 3 comments · 1 min read

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Tolerance uses an LLM to score social media posts by manipulation tactics (rage bait, engagement farming, emotional exploitation) and progressively blurs high-scoring content. The more a post tries to grab your attention, the harder it is to see.

I built it because I'd been fighting a doomscrolling habit for 15 years. Blockers never worked, I'd just override them. Tolerance broke the habit in two weeks. I still reflexively open Twitter and Reddit, but I close them in seconds because there's nothing rewarding there anymore.

I started feeling entitled to my own attention. Manipulation that I used to scroll past now feels like a violation. The less a post tries to grab you, the higher the actual value tends to be.

Open source (AGPL-3.0), free tier with BYOK, $9/month pro tier.

https://tolerance.lol https://github.com/gtech/tolerance

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beadey

Pretty neat. I primarily use Safari - any chance you can also get an extension there?

  • wduncanOP

    Thank you :). Definitely, but I don't have an apple developer account yet and the API differs. It will be a few weeks.

wduncanOP

I'd love feedback on how it feels to use right now, and any features you'd want to see.

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