I was mass-blocking flat-earthers, magas and other Russian bots until I got suspended for 'automated behavior'. After several suspensions I gave up the account, never looked back and found a new hobby blocking twitter on every website.
It's rather odd that Twitter still exists without my participation.
Quitting Twitter
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#232The best way to break from Twitter, is to get banned.. You'll spend a few days asking why, they give valid answers.. You still check it.. But then once you cant give supposed meaningful feedback.. You don't care.
What you write in twitter only matters to your legacy.
It's a semi protocol now after all.
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#233Twitter is totally optional.
I’ve quit multiple times, for years at a time.
Returning is always completely jarring - like learning a language that’s 100% slang.
Nobody cares if you’re not there and you’re not going to be quizzed about it later.
The first time I quit, it was a year before even 1 of my followers even reached out to say, “hey haven’t seen you on Twitter in a while, let’s grab a beer”.
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#234This post resonated me so well...
It's been more than a year since I quit Twitter and the likes. I can't stress enough how good it feels to not have constant stream of mental hazard. I decided to rely on my whim to collect information using my own filter bubble (something I like to term as "information mindfulness"). I feel: as digital platforms are growing and evolving, with everyone inside the echo chambers [0], it's better to practice this "information mindfulness".
I am sure it depends on your own usecase for social media like Twitter; how you're going to sink in the platform. For me it didn't work. I hit my mental limit (finally after a long time).
[0] - At this stage, almost everything feels like an echo chamber.
Re: Quitting Twitter
#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did this for years and then Trump rolled around and every developer and interesting person thought it was their duty to use their feeds as some form of resistance. I remember one case in particular where the guy was a genius at posting niche Middle Ages history and then every other tweet became political and I was so sad, because I absolutely loved his content. As an a-political person who tried hard (but failed oc…
> a-political there is no such thing
That is demonstrably false—tweets about, say, programming language theory are pretty far from politics.
Re: Quitting Twitter
#236If you want to follow a few specific accounts, just try following their RSS feeds! You get to see what they say without all the other junk.
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#237I've never used Twitter in my life. Sounds like all the bullshit from high school that I ditched.
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#238Even if you have followers, if your individual tweets don't engage well, Twitter won't show them to 100% of the people who explicitly follow you, thanks to their algorithms. YouTube is the same way, which is why you see channels telling users to do three clicks to actually follow: subscribe, notifications on, notifications set to "all". They censor you from your own opt-in audience unless your content is clickbaity e…
What you describe in the first paragraph is not censorship. There's a whole thing around censorship not applying to private platforms, but even if you argue that the word "censorship" applies to a private entity moderating the content it publishes with its own money (like Hacker News: It definitely moderates content), the thing you describe is still not that kind of "censorship." Showing or not showing your tweets ba…
> If you don't like it, write a blog.
And when my blog host starts hiding my posts? What then? Will you tell me the same thing?
I did write a blog. On Twitter.
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#239"When I use reddit or Hacker News, I find that it’s trivial to get thousands of karma and a handful of awards"
You have to be kidding! It takes me months to earn a few points that I flush down the toilet the next day with some insensitive comment.
Re: Quitting Twitter
#240Twitter banned me. Apparently, you cannot call Maxine Waters a 'stupid old hag'.