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Re: Quitting Twitter

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Post by doggodaddo78 »

Social media is anything but. I nuked mine because the signal was low and the positive/negative ratio wasn't good.

Online participation needs changes to be more worthwhile:

1. Micropayments to participate.

2. Names, verified identities, and pictures. 37signals did a whole article about how people treated each other when there was too much anonymity.

3. Elimination of karma and other gamification. Promotion based on anonymous interest of others.

4. Automatic recognition of insults, crybullying, hate speech, dog whistles, and personal attacks.

5. 7 random people moderation.

6. Less deplatforming, more civil debating.

Re: Quitting Twitter

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Post by sodality2 »

dmix wrote: post #169
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #71

My approach to Twitter has been to aggressively unfollow anyone posting content that I don’t want to be consuming. That ranges from constantly dunking on every opportunity to people who simply tweet too many times per day. The best content and discussion comes from small groups of people with similar interests who aren’t using Twitter simply to fill time or to build their personal brand. Removing everyone else doesn’…

I did this for years and then Trump rolled around and every developer and interesting person thought it was their duty to use their feeds as some form of resistance. I remember one case in particular where the guy was a genius at posting niche Middle Ages history and then every other tweet became political and I was so sad, because I absolutely loved his content. As an a-political person who tried hard (but failed oc…

Twitter loves politics: rage keeps you addicted and coming back. It keeps you on the app longer = more ads.

Re: Quitting Twitter

#203

Post by Raed667 »

dmix wrote: post #169
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #71

My approach to Twitter has been to aggressively unfollow anyone posting content that I don’t want to be consuming. That ranges from constantly dunking on every opportunity to people who simply tweet too many times per day. The best content and discussion comes from small groups of people with similar interests who aren’t using Twitter simply to fill time or to build their personal brand. Removing everyone else doesn’…

I did this for years and then Trump rolled around and every developer and interesting person thought it was their duty to use their feeds as some form of resistance. I remember one case in particular where the guy was a genius at posting niche Middle Ages history and then every other tweet became political and I was so sad, because I absolutely loved his content. As an a-political person who tried hard (but failed oc…

> a-political

there is no such thing

Re: Quitting Twitter

#204

Post by danaliv »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #71

My approach to Twitter has been to aggressively unfollow anyone posting content that I don’t want to be consuming. That ranges from constantly dunking on every opportunity to people who simply tweet too many times per day. The best content and discussion comes from small groups of people with similar interests who aren’t using Twitter simply to fill time or to build their personal brand. Removing everyone else doesn’…

I've had an idea rolling around for years to build some kind of classifier that sits in front of your Twitter timeline. I follow lots of accounts that tweet about one thing I'm interested in, and one thing I absolutely do not and will not care about, ever. Seems like it would be totally feasible to do automated filtering on this sort of thing rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater by unfollowing.

Re: Quitting Twitter

#205

Post by ChipSkylark »

Try scaling back all forms of social media + notification-based apps and start re-adding them incrementally, one variable at a time, and track how you feel and think in response to each new addition. It takes a while but opens your eyes to the egregious behavior modification taking place on these platforms at scale.

I'm at a point in my life where I only care about major, materially-significant news events that could impact my health/safety and the safety of people I care about. I treat all other content as ignorable, nice-to-have at best.

Re: Quitting Twitter

#210

Post by dr-detroit »

sneak wrote: post #11

Even if you have followers, if your individual tweets don't engage well, Twitter won't show them to 100% of the people who explicitly follow you, thanks to their algorithms. YouTube is the same way, which is why you see channels telling users to do three clicks to actually follow: subscribe, notifications on, notifications set to "all". They censor you from your own opt-in audience unless your content is clickbaity e…

Youtube should be for watching old footage of Lester Young from the 30s. Not everything exists to provide an alternative celebrity model for narcissists.
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