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Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by eyelidlessness »

dnautics wrote: post #230
danschumann wrote: post #219

Twitter made me feel: some combination of violated, indignant, numb, inferior, empty, powerless, disappointed, embarassed, furious, annoyed, and infuriated.

I used to feel that way, but I aggressively moderated who I follow in a purge, and being selective about who I add as follows. It feels like it's easier to marie-kondo people I don't care for anymore in twitter since there's little-to-no-expectation that I know anyone on twitter, and for me, anyways, twitter is a much more pleasant experience than any other social network has been.

Same, but I went the opposite direction and started following more people to curate my feed. I seldom unfollow anyone unless I feel any interaction with them is likely to have a high proportion of conflict or strong disagreement on values.

I considered a similar purge, but ultimately decided the variety and evolution of what I’m exposed to is better for my experience. I’ve also made several friends through Twitter (and even a short romantic relationship, which also led to me adopting a puppy who’s the light of my life!), so I’ve tended to keep a pretty open mind about the whole thing.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by spaniard89277 »

danschumann wrote: post #219

Twitter made me feel: some combination of violated, indignant, numb, inferior, empty, powerless, disappointed, embarassed, furious, annoyed, and infuriated.

Twitter didn't make you feel anything, it's the people who uses twitter that made that to you.

Maybe we just should accept that we are not cognitively equipped to deal with all that comes with social media. It's just too much for our brains, and having a sane relationship with them requires an active effort to moderate who you follow.

Yes, they optimize por clicks and views, yet Twitter at least allows you total control of what are you consuming.

So if there's any social media out there that has both utility and allows control, it's Twitter.

FB it's another level of shady shit we can discuss another day.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by kevingadd »

syshum wrote: post #244
afavour wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read it differently than "shaping public opinion". The reality is that social media (and Twitter especially) is toxic. That underlying toxicity comes from humans of course, but recommendation algorithms accelerate and highlight it because it leads to high "engagement", and thus more money. These sites already "guide" conversation, just using metrics that can end up being harmful. A social media CEO that's intereste…

The problem here is that "toxic" is subjective, what I find toxic and disagreeable may not be the same thing you find toxic and disagreeable. Take for example hot button issue of Gun ownership, I believe it an essential right and extension of self defense, others view any talk about guns as toxic that should be banned. Who's worldview should win? Mine, your's, Twitters? IMO platforms like twitter should not be making…

Who's banning discussion of guns? I can't think of a single service that does

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by colechristensen »

koheripbal wrote: post #234
riffic wrote: post #151

Looks like activist investors are getting their Christmas wish this year. Twitter's not immune from ending up on this list (on a long enough timeline): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...

The issue with Dorsey is that he acknowledges how toxic Twitter is, but has no idea how to fix it nor did he seem ready to do so, and this made investors very nervous. See his recent interview on CNN : https://www.facebook.com/cnn/videos/2100868666791589/

I don't think this is ... necessarily the wrong thing.

Acknowledging that it is a difficult problem and you don't know how to solve it might be better than thinking you know how to solve it and doing something worse.

People are also quick to blame platforms without acknowledging that a lot of people are awful, the venue in which they practice their awfulness isn't necessarily at fault but it's easier to blame a thing which could be destroyed (religion, organization, social network, etc) than to acknowledge that this is a feature of humanity.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by batman-farts »

sporkland wrote: post #80
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you're not going to be able to give the focus a solo CEO is. I agree. As much as he tried to justify the dual CEO roles, it never made any sense. It was also maddening to watch him shift to a 3rd focus of promoting cryptocurrency and his own cryptocurrency investments. Hanging on to the CEO role of both Twitter and Square put him in a great position to push both companies toward more cryptocurrency integration, but…

Would you critique Musk in a similar way? Honest question, because it's eerie how you could swap Dorsey for Musk and the statements would still apply but seem much less true.

Elon Musk is best understood as a venture capitalist with a particularly concentrated portfolio.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by Hackbraten »

tills13 wrote: post #235
dnautics wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to feel that way, but I aggressively moderated who I follow in a purge, and being selective about who I add as follows. It feels like it's easier to marie-kondo people I don't care for anymore in twitter since there's little-to-no-expectation that I know anyone on twitter, and for me, anyways, twitter is a much more pleasant experience than any other social network has been.

The only issue with this is you create your own echo chamber. imo it's why conservatives feel so emboldened, recently -- they have surrounded themselves with people who agree with them making their "movement" seem larger than it actually is.

I can enjoy a tweet while at the same time disagreeing with it.

Same on HN. I often upvote comments, even though I disagree with them, whenever I feel they’re a meaningful contribution to the discourse.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by KoftaBob »

tills13 wrote: post #235
dnautics wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to feel that way, but I aggressively moderated who I follow in a purge, and being selective about who I add as follows. It feels like it's easier to marie-kondo people I don't care for anymore in twitter since there's little-to-no-expectation that I know anyone on twitter, and for me, anyways, twitter is a much more pleasant experience than any other social network has been.

The only issue with this is you create your own echo chamber. imo it's why conservatives feel so emboldened, recently -- they have surrounded themselves with people who agree with them making their "movement" seem larger than it actually is.

This is mostly an issue if you use Twitter for politics. If you use it to follow people in topics that you're interested in/hobbies, this isn't really relevant. You don't really need to worry about an echo chamber among baking pages, or DIY home guides, etc.

Honestly, life was so much more peaceful once I curated my social media apps to focus on my hobbies and remove "general news/current events" from my feed, which are largely garbage. I'll look up info about candidates when elections roll around, the rest of the year, I don't want to hear the worthless bullshit in that space.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by cblconfederate »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #259

It will be interesting to see how Twitter changes as a result. Twitter with selective following and setting your timeline to 'time order' creates a pretty good environment for me. It feels like the equivalent of living in only a few chosen 'subreddits' rather than getting the full frontal reddit experience.

Same. It's a handy RSS replacement. Or a telegraph office

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by busterarm »

jcadam wrote: post #276
koheripbal wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue with Dorsey is that he acknowledges how toxic Twitter is, but has no idea how to fix it nor did he seem ready to do so, and this made investors very nervous. See his recent interview on CNN : https://www.facebook.com/cnn/videos/2100868666791589/

I don't think it can be fixed. Social media in general is a cancer.

Social media can be fixed by legislating it out of existence.

It doesn't even need a watchdog agency like the environment does.

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