I've added code to my RSS reader to rewrite Twitter links as Nitter links instead. No sign in necessary.
Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
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Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
The default rules don't do it for me. Does it need some custom rules?
The annoyances lists only partially work for me. The following rules seem to catch everything: twitter.com##div[role=group]:has(div:has-text(/See more Tweets from/)) twitter.com##div[role=group]:has(div:has-text(/See what’s happening/)) twitter.com##html:style(overflow: visible !important)
Thanks for this, it fixed it but ofc twitter will soon find out and break it again. Even though, they know majority of internet users don't user uBlock Origin. I feel they'd still come after the few that do :/
Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
#113I 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/
> You don’t follow an account because you want to read their tweets. Twitter is “social media”, and following is a social signal. When you follow someone you are declaring that you approve of that person. Whether or not this is what you intended, this is how your decision to follow someone will be interpreted.
This is horrifying. Believable, and understandable, but truly disturbing.
Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
#114> I thought courts already decided in the US that the public has a right to access official government communications on social media [citation needed] Twitter is kind of disintegrating, though. They've hit a growth plateau, the users are really fractious, management doesn't understand what they want out of it, and it's the venue for social strife.
> Twitter is kind of disintegrating, though. I have never seen a for-profit social networking site that is immune to this on a long enough timeline. They all degrade eventually. By following what the money wants from users , not what the users want. > "The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and sim…
> They all degrade eventually. By following what the money wants from users , not what the users want.
I wonder what would happen if Twitter said "OK, we are going to charge $5 dollars a year" to use it.
Maybe it would not only be an improvement, but also viable from a business perspective.
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#115"courts already decided in the US that the public has a right to access official government communications on social media." - I'd like to know more about this.
I have been bothered often when finding that city council members (and others) use facebook to put info out there, and I refuse to use fbook on most days of the year, and who knows what fbook is doing with the feed/timeline or whatever they call it so I may miss what council person posted while I get distracted by the half-truth politic meme aunt B posted..
Am wanting to find some leverage to force gov stuff to be at least cross posted to a web site, even a wordpress.com or something with an rss so I can actually get notices about whats happening rather than reading later or hearing from someone about what happened (too late to add to discussions)
So, any court case stuff, I'd love to know more about. I thought of showing politicians how to cross post, or start a petition demanding easier access to info.. but I feel those would be feeble attempts to get nothing done compared to a court thing or some new fed regulation or something.
Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
#116I only interact with Twitter via Tweetbot, so I don't see any of these weird things you describe. I see ONLY the accounts I follow.
Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
#117There 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 might be in the minority, but I actually really like the new features of the official twitter app. I mostly use twitter as a way to keep on top of interesting things that are happening in my fields, and I find that twitter is pretty good about introducing me to relevant content I wouldn't have seen otherwise.
That said, the reordering of the feed by inferred relevance is kind of annoying when someone does a rant without using threads - often the first tweet I see is like the 4th tweet in the series
Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
100% agree, but there has "always" been that push. 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…
I think this is just the current state of the job market today, though.
In order to "be successful", it requires an almost constant engagement with your curated social/online identity. And for many fields, being an attractive candidate for employment means you should have: a blog promoting your side-projects; a Twitter account engaged in networking & self-promotion; a GitHub account linked to your identity; maybe even a YouTube channel; and, of course, a highly polished LinkedIn account.
Sure, if you have 20 years of experience and plenty of industry connections, this might not apply. But for anyone else? Hustle, hustle, hustle + Promote, promote, promote. Personally, I find it pretty gross...
Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
#119I 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 have found that the three best ways to use twitter are:
- use Tweetbot or Twitterrific
- subscribe to the feed in NewsBlur
- use nitter.net
In other words, don’t use twitter’s own website or app.
Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
#120> I thought courts already decided in the US that the public has a right to access official government communications on social media [citation needed] Twitter is kind of disintegrating, though. They've hit a growth plateau, the users are really fractious, management doesn't understand what they want out of it, and it's the venue for social strife.
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.
I never really got twitter in the past. Terrible conversation flow, hard to find things, so. much. noise for very little benefit. Anything that is "only on twitter" finds its way to HN or reddit anyways, where its much easier to discuss the the topic.
And twitter in the present just seems outright toxic, I can't imagine being a new user on today's twitter.