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I am not sure what happend to twitter. However if you just want to browser twitter you can use a nitter instance (there are quite a few public instances). https://github.com/zedeus/nitter I use browser plugin that redirects me to nitter when clicking a twitter link. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nitter-redirect/mo...
I fixed my twitter feed by unfollowing anyone the first time something they did resulted in me being upset. Even if it was a like. It's just not worth it. For about a year or two my feed was great. Then the topics started coming in. First it was infosec and cybersecurity and they were fine for a bit so I tolerated it. But then it turned into just a bunch of hot women saying basically nothing. If before it was some ra…
I fixed my twitter feed by unfollowing anyone the first time something they did resulted in me being upset. Even if it was a like. It's just not worth it. For about a year or two my feed was great. Then the topics started coming in. First it was infosec and cybersecurity and they were fine for a bit so I tolerated it. But then it turned into just a bunch of hot women saying basically nothing. If before it was some ra…
You do lose access to a few extras (like polls), but the tradeoff might be worth it to you.
Twitter...official government communications? You would be better served accessing official government communications via .gov sites. This is their purpose. If you want official bot communications from troll farms, then Twitter is the best!
Official government sites are largely static and slow to update.
Local emergency services, police, snow clearing, power and utility providers, etc all use Twitter for their most up to date posts anything else is hours or days behind if it gets updated at all.
I don't like that reality. I'd love to change that reality. I can not however wave it away :-/
I fixed my twitter feed by unfollowing anyone the first time something they did resulted in me being upset. Even if it was a like. It's just not worth it. For about a year or two my feed was great. Then the topics started coming in. First it was infosec and cybersecurity and they were fine for a bit so I tolerated it. But then it turned into just a bunch of hot women saying basically nothing. If before it was some ra…
When I am on Twitter, I don't care about US culture war stuff, I don't want to join you deplatforming everyone you dislike, I am not going to send you and your cat good vibes because you need a day longer to finish your Jira ticket. If I see posts like that, I automatically mute to keep me focused on things that matter.
I prefer the mute over unfollowing. I don't want to make a statement about you by unfollowing you (it can be tracked), I just decided that reading some of your tweets cause me more stress than the positive effect your other tweets bring. I don't dislike you, I just don't want to see you moan on Twitter.
It works well enough, but of course, there are some stuff that slip through.
That has been transformative for my enjoyment of the 'main feed'. That and sorting by recent - even if you have to keep re-toggling it.
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It's truly amazing how despite all this twitter is as successful as it is. Something about _very important people_ sharing their thoughts in 140/280 characters really is the addictive nicotine of the human attention span.
It is suffering though. Hollywood has largely moved to Instagram. What is left on Twitter is musicians and politicians, with their toxic communities. If musicians manage to find a better outlet, Twitter will become unable to escape the stigma of being the cesspool of humanity.
AFAIK, they still announce the monkey JPEGs somebody overpaid for on their behalf on Twitter.