Not sure about likes but Twitter without retweets is a much better place. The people I follow rarely say something with their own voice, and I was tired of the "outrage" tweets for every new social issue. my feed is not much quieter, and when my Tweeps do say something, I pay attention.
Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reddit can be quite good for that too.
To counter the downvotes: yes, Reddit can be a good forum for productive dialogue. It depends on the subreddit you're on—there are some subs (especially smaller and/or ones with heavy, thoughtful moderation) that are real gems.
"heavy, thoughtful moderation"
Aka the good censors...
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't have this option on tweetdeck, only a add to collections, gives me a popup with no content. Nice.
It’s on the official site, I’m not sure of 3rd party app support. To view your bookmarks, https://mobile.twitter.com/i/bookmarks
I only see it on the mobile site.
It's found to the right of the heart button.
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#24The fav button was a useful tool back when it meant "fav" as in "bookmark" and not "like". Maybe they should go back to that? I know they've recently added a "bookmark" button as well, but I hope they don't keep it hidden the way it is now.
On the other hand: Twitter does not have to be a debate site. You can surely debate using it, but it's just a website where you can post short messages and follow your friends. They shouldn't screw it just to cater to a certain part of their user base.
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#25Good.
Please remove retweet count as well.
Maybe Twitter can become a social network without herd mentality.
And then facebook(incl. instagram) can also remove their 'reaction emojis'
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#26How can debate on Twitter be good when they limit the length of the arguments that you can make to two or three sentences?
It can't. Twitter makes people unnecessarily simplify arguments. Unnecessarily simple arguments -> People get upset because you're misrepresenting them -> essentially screaming at each other instead of discussing. The fundamental nature of the platform is bad. It's basically arguing in clickbait form.
Speaking of which, I've found this particular platform the best for rational debate: https://www.kialo.com
We once actually used it to have an internal debate about development processes and effort estimation techniques.
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#27If Twitter genuinely wants to improve the quality of debate online, perhaps they should consider shutting it down.
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#28I don't think quality of "debate" on Twitter can be salvaged. Everything was designed for "engagement" and turned out to be rage-inducing machine. Quote-retweet is used to send followers to harass the person responsible for the awful tweet. RT is choir-preaching (you're a monster if you don't RT that kicking babies is bad), and replies to twitter-celebrities' tweets give everyone their 15 minutes of fame to post the…
"Every single sentence has a button for taking it out of context" is the best single-sentence summary of Twitter I have yet seen. Thank-you.
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#29So I guess I'll have to retweet things now to bookmark them. It'd be nice if Twitter could reconcile it's shitty RSS replacement and crazy-drunken-uncle-shouting-into-the-void halves into something coherent.
There’s actually a “bookmark this tweet” option under the more options menu for the tweet.
Bizarrely, this appears to be missing from the main site...
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#30is that all twitter is now? a debate site? Starring items has been a stample of both bookmarking content, as well as showing appreciation for anything on the platform. But as well as when they started merging liked posts into the content feed on the main apps, it did remove the critical thing if it being an option for feedback to a post, without sharing the content to your own timeline (a retweet). I don't understand…
I think it's a good thing if they get rid of it and not just replace it with another symbol as they did with the favorites. Either people like your stuff and want to share it, or they don't.
> Either people like your stuff and want to share it, or they don't.
Eh not really. Consider my use case. I don't tweet, retweet or anything. My profile is set to private. I mainly use Twitter for updates on the local public transport (and sport scores). Last week for instance the metro system had a really bad failure. At the end of the day, their Twitter account posted a big apology and you could see whoever was manning it had played a blinder by helping as many people as they could. So I "liked" it as a form of appreciation. I do that a lot.
I don't think I'm alone on this either. I know lots of people who use Twitter for practical things (traffic updates etc.), I honestly can't think of anyone who actually tweets though.
If like goes, I'll just use retweet as a replacement to show the same emotion. Except I'll be retweeting to an empty audience deliberately.