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Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

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Re: Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

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Post by rasz »

ivanhoe wrote: post #36

I don't get why people keep using the default recommendations? The whole point of twitter was that you manually pick who to follow and see just that. And you still can do that, use the Following tab and it'll work just the same as the day 1. For extra points you can create lists so that you can group people and fine-tune your timeline...

Same with YT. Use https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions exclusively

Re: Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

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Post by UrineSqueegee »

seydor wrote: post #2

Roulettes aren't useless though

Reddit is leaking with this one.

All tech announcements always happen on twitter first lol. If you're using bleeding edge software most devs post it on twitter first.

this commend is a left wing cope and doesn't belong in this comment section.

Re: Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

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Post by stavros »

ivanhoe wrote: post #36

I don't get why people keep using the default recommendations? The whole point of twitter was that you manually pick who to follow and see just that. And you still can do that, use the Following tab and it'll work just the same as the day 1. For extra points you can create lists so that you can group people and fine-tune your timeline...

"I don't get why people keep using the default recommendations? Just go against everything the site wants you to do and that's it!"

Re: Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

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Post by krapp »

ivanhoe wrote: post #36

I don't get why people keep using the default recommendations? The whole point of twitter was that you manually pick who to follow and see just that. And you still can do that, use the Following tab and it'll work just the same as the day 1. For extra points you can create lists so that you can group people and fine-tune your timeline...

That's just how people are, they put in the least amount of effort they can, and tend not to be curious or want to bother with change. Even on Hacker News people stumble across features hidden in plain sight all the time because they just never bothered to alter their initial routine.

Re: Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

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Post by mgoetzke »

stavros wrote: post #43
ivanhoe wrote: post #36

I don't get why people keep using the default recommendations? The whole point of twitter was that you manually pick who to follow and see just that. And you still can do that, use the Following tab and it'll work just the same as the day 1. For extra points you can create lists so that you can group people and fine-tune your timeline...

"I don't get why people keep using the default recommendations? Just go against everything the site wants you to do and that's it!"

It is just one tap, right on the top, not that hard and that the algorithm starts showing you stuff by default before new people follow enough is not that evil is it ?

Re: Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

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Post by manuelmoreale »

> My preferred solution would be if we could just go back to personal blogs, blogrolls, newsletters, and RSS feeds. It seems unlikely but maybe a new generation of wrappers around these decentralized protocols would work.

Be the change you want to see in the world they say. If you can and want to, bring back a personal blog and post there. Blogging and rss are definitely not dead.

The growth is slower, it’s hard to go viral but that’s a feature imo, not a bug.

You’ll get fewer connections but are going to be a lot more meaningful.

Re: Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

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Post by panosfilianos »

rasz wrote: post #41
ivanhoe wrote: post #36

I don't get why people keep using the default recommendations? The whole point of twitter was that you manually pick who to follow and see just that. And you still can do that, use the Following tab and it'll work just the same as the day 1. For extra points you can create lists so that you can group people and fine-tune your timeline...

Same with YT. Use https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions exclusively

I have put some thought into this and my stack includes an assortment of Chrome extensions to observe the behavior I like.

- Hide Youtube Shorts

- Hide Youtube Watched

- uBlock Filter to remove Upcoming videos from the subscription page

- Unhook with most options turned on

I do the same for Twitter with the Just Arrived extension tweaked from gh.

Re: Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

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Post by _lvbh »

rasz wrote: post #41
ivanhoe wrote: post #36

I don't get why people keep using the default recommendations? The whole point of twitter was that you manually pick who to follow and see just that. And you still can do that, use the Following tab and it'll work just the same as the day 1. For extra points you can create lists so that you can group people and fine-tune your timeline...

Same with YT. Use https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions exclusively

If you have no watch history, they don’t even show you recommended videos in the home page anymore. I see that as generally positive

Re: Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

#50

Post by gmerc »

I feel it’s primarily a platform for Elon to cultivate bagholders for his various enterprises. The whole white supremacist cosplay just a method to filter to the most gullible audience looking for a strong leader.

Not sure how Cathy woods as the Queen of bagholders fits in there but there’s probably a connection.

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