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Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed

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Re: Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed

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Post by akuchling »

drdec wrote: post #209
SECProto wrote: post #189

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Caveat: I immediately block anyone who adds me to a list (it's only happened 3 or 4 times and it seems spammy). And I've seen a number of other accounts with "don't add me to lists" or equivalent in their bio.

Genuine question - why do you block people who are you to lists? I'm a relatively new Twitter user and I've been making heavy use of the list functionality. So what's the down side?

Some trolls use the functionality for harassment: "here's a list of SJWs you can tweet abuse at." https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/07/how-trolls-use-twitter-lists...

Re: Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed

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Post by oblio »

addingnumbers wrote: post #220
oblio wrote: post #97

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> a good test of when social networks turn the corner and become evil is ... when they are created. Social networks are inherently evil, that's their business model: manipulate users into addiction and serve ads. How do non-evil social networks look like? They're forums, plain old forums. But you don't become an ultra trillionaire with PhpBB.

> Social networks are inherently evil, that's their business model What's evil about Mastodon, Matrix, Pleroma, diaspora, etc?

The fact that if they're good they're not adopted, I guess?

I don't know anyone using any of those networks.

Re: Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed

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Post by malwarebytess »

bmlzootown wrote: post #54
malwarebytess wrote: post #49

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Do you know how to access GT2 settings? I can't seem to find it after installing the script and confirming it works.

It should be accessible from the normal settings. Click on your profile avatar, settings and privacy, GoodTwitter2.

Yeah, it's blank for me unfortunately.

I think I'm experiencing a bug like this one here:

https://github.com/Bl4Cc4t/GoodTwitter2/issues/33

i'll look into it

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Post by promalwop »

joegahona wrote: post #200
blacklight wrote: post #93

Just use Twitter's lists. I've been using them for a long time. I added to one of my lists only the accounts that I really want to see on my feed (no old school friends, acquaintances, nor random people that some of the accounts I follow just started following: only sources with added value). The result? Open your list, and you'll see all the tweets sorted chronologically, only from the accounts you really care to fo…

My fear is dutifully curating lists for this purpose -- which would take ages -- only for them to monkey with this feature. I see a lot of people on Twitter who say something like "if you put me in a list, I will block you," which makes me think there's some sort of list-spamming capability currently. (I can't figure out any other reason people wouldn't want to be added to lists...?) I use the reverse-chron feed almo…

Lists can be public or private. If they're public, the account being added gets notified. If they're private, there's no notification, and nobody else can see the list or its contents anyway.

"if you put me in a list, I will block you" is almost certainly about public lists, either because the notifs are noisy or because the list may not be a flattering one.

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Post by Markoff »

vero2 wrote: post #201
Markoff wrote: post #99

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the problem with Nitter is you can see only one user's timeline, I want to see multiple users combined, then I can ditch Twitter site completely just for passive reading, but until then it's still more convenient with one account read multiple accounts in one timeline instead opening them one by one unless I'm missing something and Nitter allows combined timeline from multiple accounts

https://nitter.net/handle1,handle2,handle3,handle4

Wow, thanks a ton! Is there a limit to number of handles?

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Post by wlonkly »

nkuttler wrote: post #95
blacklight wrote: post #93

Just use Twitter's lists. I've been using them for a long time. I added to one of my lists only the accounts that I really want to see on my feed (no old school friends, acquaintances, nor random people that some of the accounts I follow just started following: only sources with added value). The result? Open your list, and you'll see all the tweets sorted chronologically, only from the accounts you really care to fo…

Interesting, thanks for the suggestion. Is there an easy way to create a list with everybody I follow?

I use the "t" cli thingy (https://github.com/sferik/t) to pull a list of who I follow ("followings") and then create/update a list based on it.

Re: Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed

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Post by techky »

drcongo wrote: post #154
strogonoff wrote: post #135

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The one feature I wish Twitter lists had is turning off retweets by account in a list. Currently, a retweet-generous account will pollute the entire list. You can turn off retweets only for accounts you actually follow, and it applies only to your main timeline, not the lists.

If you're on Apple devices, you can do this with Tweetbot.

True for accounts you follow in Tweetbot, but unfortunately you can't disable retweets for individual members of a list inside Tweetbot. I really wish you could.

Re: Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed

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Post by drcongo »

techky wrote: post #229
drcongo wrote: post #154

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If you're on Apple devices, you can do this with Tweetbot.

True for accounts you follow in Tweetbot, but unfortunately you can't disable retweets for individual members of a list inside Tweetbot. I really wish you could.

Ahh right, I misunderstood the parent comment assuming that their lists were comprised of people they also follow.
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