it's insane how slowly people realize that social medias are trash
I'd say that only small communities are worth something, especially forums.
only forum's format is good for discussion unlike fb groups or reddit/hn's format
Quitting Twitter
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#112I check Twitter to learn what I should be outraged about. I literally say to myself "I wonder what I should be outraged about today?" and then lo and behold, Twitter tells me. I don't know where else to get that information. I wish I did, since Twitter is very inefficient with too many people retweeting the same tidbit so they can try their hand at a witty rejoinder. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the rejoinders, but th…
It's possible to unfollow everyone who posts outrage tweets, give it a try. It will become eerily quiet, and hopefully only occasional once-a-day quality tweet will remain.
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#113Who needs twitter anyway? Right? We have hacker news :)
It's a huge difference for me though. Most of the items here are quite interesting to me and not all critics are stomped into the ground relentlessly. It looks like there is some strange level of respect.
I have written mistakes and apologized for them. It seems most of you accept that. Or maybe it's so heavily moderated i only see the stuff i'm allowed to see. I don't know.
I've tried Twitter a few days and decided it's not for me. Same with Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, forums, irc, etc. Some parts of them are quite useful, but for the most they are a very stressful environment to participate in.
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#114I too deleted my Twitter account. And because I too also want the upside of reading what interesting people there are saying, what I now do is simply save their profiles in a browser bookmark folder. Every morning I open each profile in a new tab and skim what they’ve shared since I last visited. The added benefit is that this friction has forced me to keep the list small, thus optimizing the signal-to-noise ratio.
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#115My approach to Twitter has been to aggressively unfollow anyone posting content that I don’t want to be consuming. That ranges from constantly dunking on every opportunity to people who simply tweet too many times per day. The best content and discussion comes from small groups of people with similar interests who aren’t using Twitter simply to fill time or to build their personal brand. Removing everyone else doesn’…
Doesn’t this by definition mean that you’re in a social media bubble with those who agree with you?
None of OP's criteria for unfollowing/muting people was them saying things they disagree with.
It's the difference between not watching NBA games because you're not interested in basketball, and refusing to watch the local news because "they have a (left|right) bias".
There is more content out there competing for your attention than you have time in your life to consume it. Rather than letting twitter's default algorithm feed you the most "engaging", OP is saying a more mindful approach works for them.
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#116My approach to Twitter has been to aggressively unfollow anyone posting content that I don’t want to be consuming. That ranges from constantly dunking on every opportunity to people who simply tweet too many times per day. The best content and discussion comes from small groups of people with similar interests who aren’t using Twitter simply to fill time or to build their personal brand. Removing everyone else doesn’…
Doesn’t this by definition mean that you’re in a social media bubble with those who agree with you?
only if what you want to see is just people who agree with you, in which case you'll live in a sad bubble in any case ..
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#117My approach to Twitter has been to aggressively unfollow anyone posting content that I don’t want to be consuming. That ranges from constantly dunking on every opportunity to people who simply tweet too many times per day. The best content and discussion comes from small groups of people with similar interests who aren’t using Twitter simply to fill time or to build their personal brand. Removing everyone else doesn’…
Doesn’t this by definition mean that you’re in a social media bubble with those who agree with you?
That would depend on the person. Lots of people are very interested by people who disagree with them in certain ways.
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#118quitting Twitter will improve your life, but here's the problem: it leaves it to the most radical. and why is that a problem? because there is a pipeline from Twitter into the real world, especially via journalists and politicians who live on there. what's the answer? I'd love to hear ideas! but I think either we need many, many more reasonable voices on Twitter (an uphill battle, given the platform rewards and optim…
To begin with: we’re a tech community. Building a better twitter is possible, so build it. Even if you don’t build a winning app, you could demonstrate ideas or designs for alternatives. It could even be mock ups or prototypes. Contribute ideas to making a better world.
One approach is to leave twitter to the addicts manipulated into rage and just waiting. Either people will “develop antibodies” to twitter (PG) or it will destroy itself.
As others have pointed out, the real world institutions can solve the problem by breaking the connection between ML-induced outrage and their policy decisions. You shouldn’t feel like you have to take that on yourself, but I guess if you liked that idea then you could campaign for it.
If you stay on twitter you might improve the average level of discourse, but don’t overestimate your ability to resist the feedback loop that will constantly be trying to find new ways to trick you into engagement (and most of the time, enragement). You’re only human and it’s relentless. It doesn’t seem very sophisticated but even a random search algorithm will work given enough tries. You’ll also be legitimising twitter, which is questionable because they are knowingly creating this problem (disclaimer: I’m on twitter).
Regulation of social networks is on the way, twitter probably peaked with Trump, and I think you also have to think about opportunity cost, eg arguing on twitter vs building something that improves the world.
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#119A slightly less drastic option than quitting is to go into a passive, readonly mode and keep a safe distance.
I use https://fraidyc.at/ Seriously, it's a thing. You can still follow public social media streams that you're interested in. It does RSS, Twitter, as well as the usual social media suspects. It's fast and perfect for avoiding getting suckered into a fight over nothing important.
If you really have to, you can fire up the real thing but this is a good way to get some of your time back.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah if you aggressively block, unfollow, and curate Twitter can be really great. I think it's super cool to be able to interact with different people doing interesting things (a little like HN, but it's easier to remember who the people are where as on HN I never remember 99% of the usernames in threads).
The problem I found with blocking and muting people is that twitter continues to show tweets from people I don’t follow - entirely in the hope of engaging me of course, which most of the time means trying to pull me into an argument.
> twitter continues to show tweets from people I don’t follow
Are you using the reverse chronological timeline? That's the only way to fly.