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There are two reasonable ways of using twitter 1) on a third party client like Tweetbot which just shows exactly the tweets of those you follow, in order, and nothing else. Nothing promoted, no ads, no trending keywords 2) Not at all I have no idea why anyone would want to use the official Twitter app or the twitter dot com web site. Once you have used a third party client (which behaves like the original Twitter!) y…
Twitter does have a "latest tweets" option in the standard client which spares you from most algorithmic manipulation (reshuffling, trends, showing stuff someone else "like"d), though not paid promotion. Putting all of your "follow"s into a large Twitter list is another way to get similar behavior (which I've used on the mercifully rare occasions where I'm opted into an experiment that messes with "latest tweets").
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…
Consider a third-party client. You’ll get a chronological view of tweets from people you follow, without ads. You do lose access to a few extras (like polls), but the tradeoff might be worth it to you.
I assume new CEO, new strategy. Twitters profitability has always been a contentious issue, they launched their first subscription service (Twitter Blue) last year. My assumption is that they are potentially trying to move towards a more subscription based revenue model. The push back against ads is only going to get stronger and maybe they are trying to get ahead of the curve. On top of that with GDPR and all the in…
The GDPR outlaws making tracking mandatory to access the service unless it's functionally necessary (as in the outcome can't be achieved without tracking). Targeted ads don't count as "functionally necessary".
There are two reasonable ways of using twitter 1) on a third party client like Tweetbot which just shows exactly the tweets of those you follow, in order, and nothing else. Nothing promoted, no ads, no trending keywords 2) Not at all I have no idea why anyone would want to use the official Twitter app or the twitter dot com web site. Once you have used a third party client (which behaves like the original Twitter!) y…
I get two completely different timelines on these devices.
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…
Your problem is that you are looking at your feed. Do it this way: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
This is just another step in the rat-race that is fighting the platform itself. It merely prolongs the period before inevitable monetization and signal decay.
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For that reason, I'd prefer an architecture, where the users don't belong to individual servers, but a transparent fediverse, where a few thousand servers disappearing won't even get noticed. It would be important to ensure the integrity of the software running on such servers, though, perhaps via regular check of the binaries also at runtime.
Storing the data on a decentralized storage layer seems to achieve all of it and the tech is here now.
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…
Most of those extras disappear if you switch from the "home" view to "latest tweets". It's the top right icon on the web version, but I suspect the app has it somewhere as well. It gives you only the directly followed content and in timeline order.
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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.
> Hollywood has largely moved to Instagram AFAIK, they still announce the monkey JPEGs somebody overpaid for on their behalf on Twitter.
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 really hate what is happening to infosec/cybersecurity. There is this huge push to get anyone and everyone into the field due to the talent shortage, and now it is near impossible to find a signal in all of the noise that is marketing, hot takes, politics, "career building", and memes. Twitter is especially terrible.
What is sad is now there is no creativity, no exploration, no true fun.
the example the original poster in this thread said about "hot girls" in netsec.'
On Twitter, status, identity and gender play a big role vs just knowing content, or actually knowing how a computer "works." Then if you have enough followers, it seems your voice is that big .
I don't know if it's always been "like" that, or not. But, the more accessible something is, the more it seems to be diluted.
I played and broke operating systems and electronic devices, posted about my experiences online, and then it was magical when someone would take my info, add on to it and said they could do x, y, etc - jtag exploration, eprom copying (lol that old), finding root accounts on embedded devices and just breaking stuff.
So that's why I deleted my twitter account a couple of years ago, I never understood it, and I still don't. I just see screenshots of crypto scams and people stating opinions and then having to apologize for their opinions.