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Twitter’s Plan to Get People to Stop Yelling at Each Other

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Re: Twitter’s Plan to Get People to Stop Yelling at Each Other

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Post by nullc »

derefr wrote: post #89
LargeWu wrote: post #23

Twitter mostly proves that a lot of people are not happy unless they're outraged.

I feel like there's a mental illness the entire world is seemingly ignoring, whose symptom is constant, floating disgust and contempt and despise . The ability to be offended by anything, because it's not the stimulus that offended you; you were already offended as an equilibrium state. Let me attempt to describe this mentality as a recipe (because I don't have a good name for it, but I'm sure you can recognize it):…

We become what we do.

Re: Twitter’s Plan to Get People to Stop Yelling at Each Other

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Post by int_19h »

alexandercrohde wrote: post #47

I used blame twitter for creating at outrage culture. But then I realized I had it backwards. There have always been people who find it fun to vent outrage, moral indignity, and condescension. They just got it from TV blowhards before.

TV was one-way - at most, you could "reshare" what you heard with friends or colleagues, with a very limited bandwidth and a more considerable effort.

Today, we have created tech that makes it easy and convenient. If you look at practically all social networks, they're essentially optimized for outrage gossip. The human part of that equation is much more difficult to change - as social primates, we have this moral outrage thing hardwired to some extent. But why do we deliberately encourage it?

(For profit, of course.)

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

duxup wrote: post #48

Twitter by design encourages trite / curt posts that have to be outlandish to get any attention. Nuance and understanding are not encouraged ... just based on how the whole thing works. The medium is the message.

Seriously. McLuhan would have a lot to say, I’m sure.

Re: Twitter’s Plan to Get People to Stop Yelling at Each Other

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Post by fourthark »

skybrian wrote: post #15

Simpler: stop showing tweets just because other people liked them. That's not a reshare, so it shouldn't be treated that way. More generally, discourage large conversations and encourage fragmentation.

I stopped liking tweets because I don't want to reshare them to my followers from other random walks of life.

Re: Twitter’s Plan to Get People to Stop Yelling at Each Other

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Post by [deleted] »

keerthiko wrote: post #95
skybrian wrote: post #15

Simpler: stop showing tweets just because other people liked them. That's not a reshare, so it shouldn't be treated that way. More generally, discourage large conversations and encourage fragmentation.

That's why someone bought this domain [0] which redirects to a search excluding tweets [1] not authored by the people you follow. It's way sparser for me (I follow roughly 200 people) than the regular twitter feed so I also waste way less time whether procrastinating or looking for tweets by people I actually follow. I deleted "twitter.com" from my browser history and always start at realtwitter.com now. [0] http://r…

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Re: Twitter’s Plan to Get People to Stop Yelling at Each Other

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Post by paxys »

skybrian wrote: post #15

Simpler: stop showing tweets just because other people liked them. That's not a reshare, so it shouldn't be treated that way. More generally, discourage large conversations and encourage fragmentation.

I always found this so weird. They themselves provide a literal "retweet" option, but then treat likes almost the same as retweets. What's the point of having both then??
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