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Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by renewiltord »

3pt14159 wrote: post #79

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…

Same here. Got annoying enough I uninstalled the app. I was able to block Trending and You Should Follow using ublock origin but the ones inserted in my stream are shit. Same opinion.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by kshacker »

leephillips wrote: post #98
3pt14159 wrote: post #79

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/

I have been using Tweetbot with the above strategy for over 5 years maybe longer. Works so wonderfully that sometimes I don't get what the fuss is about ... since I never use the timeline. The lists are easily visible in Tweetbot but I think in the Twitter client it is an extra click or 2 to get there and that makes me not use the official Twitter client.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by leoh »

bjt2n3904 wrote: post #137
ivraatiems wrote: post #131

I posted this in a previous thread. here's some ublock origin filters to restore Twitter to logged-out usability: https://pastebin.com/U9rpcCuq

Thanks for this. A question though, for someone who doesn't do web design. All those are CSS classes, or IDs I assume? Is Twitter running some minification or obfuscation script on their HTML? Is there any guarantee those classes / IDs won't change later?

Filter syntax documented here https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by ajolly »

Is there a Twitter client out there that uses lists, but also lets me dismiss red tweets? I'd like to be able to more easily remove stuff I've already seen, and ideally save tweets for future reference.

I used to use outwit (Twitter being fed into Outlook) for this.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by mindslight »

dcchambers wrote: post #159
3pt14159 wrote: post #79

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…

Anecdotally, I've found that in virtually every social media platform I have used, if I actually make use of the feed preferences like "unsubscribe," "show me less of this," "this doesn't interest me," etc, I agree that eventually I just get flooded with useless content as their algorithms desperately try to find some new fresh content to put in front of my eyes. As a result, the overall quality goes way down and I s…

> Social Media Companies: It's OK to not have any new content to show me every few seconds. It's OK if I see the same things for a while until new, meaningful content comes my way

You are not the one who decides whether it is "OK". Every dopamine microhit they give out reinforces dependence, and is another chance to backhaul surveillance telemetry and show ads. It may fail on you personally, but it seemingly works on the majority of people. Your (our) problem is allowing third party software, bound to its own incentives, to mediate our attention in the first place.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by ChrisArchitect »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #166
ChrisArchitect wrote: post #165

It scrolls endlessly without having to log in, what are you talking about.

Not for me. On desktop Chromium it was prompting me just trying to scroll down the page of any Twitter account.

yes, on desktop, Chrome, incognito mode, not logged in, opening various accounts, President Biden, Whitehouse etc.......scrolls endlessly, even can read the replies on tweets. There is a persistent bottom/top Sign in/up prompt but it's not in the way

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by flotzam »

ycombinete wrote: post #141
flotzam wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Granted, you need an account to use a third party client You don't: https://fritter.cc ("A privacy-friendly Twitter frontend for mobile devices")

That sounds perfect, do you know of one that works on iOS?

You could build Fritter with Xcode and sideload it through AltStore: https://github.com/jonjomckay/fritter/issues/55

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by [deleted] »

captainmuon wrote: post #136
leephillips wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your problem is that you are looking at your feed. Do it this way: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/

That's completely wrong to me. I don't follow somebody on twitter to read what they write specifically . I only know one or two people who write interesting content directly to twitter. I am in it specifically for the recommendations, and for content discovery . And from a content producer's side, I want random people who follow me to read my tweets. How else could they find me in the first place? Just from retweets…

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