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Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by TillE »

zarriak wrote: post #12
par wrote: post #4

> Although we built Fleets to address some of the anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting, Fleets are mostly used by people who are already Tweeting to amplify their own Tweets this is exactly my problem with Twitter. It's an even bigger echo chamber than FB. As much as I try, I can't seem to escape the oversaturated bubble of a handful of extremely loud mouthed tweeters and their ardent followers. Mix in the t…

You really just need to follow one good Twitter account and they will usually retweet other people who are interesting and usually share a characteristic that led you to followed the original account.

Yeah I dunno why people on HN seem to struggle with Twitter so much. You choose who to follow! It's entirely under your control.

If someone starts being annoying, unfollow them. It's really simple.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by andy_ppp »

okcomputerrrr wrote: post #24
andy_ppp wrote: post #13

Big tech companies especially Twitter and Google have zero longevity when it comes to new products. How about they add subscriptions to Fleets before giving up, I’ve enjoyed a few really great conversations there and it’s a decent product like much of Twitter it just needs some love in terms of features and how they work. For example why on Earth am I not allowed to read someone’s public tweets when blocked. Twitter…

twitter is way better than most social platforms in terms of being open and be able to view the content with out logging in. I think the main purpose of blocking is to prevent you from engaging with the said user / tweet. if you really don't want your tweets to be made public you can make the account private and only allow your followers

That’s exactly my point, I should still be able to hear what someone I disagree with says and even agree or understand their thinking on occasion. Blocking seems like an extremely blunt tool.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by dbbk »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #43
dbbk wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually quite like the lack of innovation on Twitter. It takes an enormous amount of restraint to keep saying no, and stick to a small, simple vision. I would hate a hypothetical Twitter that turns into another Facebook amalgamation of 75 products.

>It takes an enormous amount of restraint to keep saying no, and stick to a small, simple vision They literally just cloned Clubhouse and are going to put it at the top of your feed because it was the cool new app for like 3 weeks last year..... How is that restraint?

They're certainly picking it up more recently with Fleets and Spaces. My point was I was quite happy with the status quo before.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by mdoms »

thallavajhula wrote: post #5

Twitter is great when it comes to transparency. I love how they included this >Although we built Fleets to address some of the anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting, Fleets are mostly used by people who are already Tweeting to amplify their own Tweets and talk directly with others. We’ll explore more ways to address what holds people back from participating on Twitter. And for the people who already are Tweet…

Perhaps people are anxious about tweeting because a single tweet can ruin your life?

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by mdoms »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #21

Kudos to Twitter for pulling the plug on a high profile feature that wasn't working out. I saw some reasonably interesting Fleets at first, but it quickly devolved into a low-effort self promotion feature as they noted: > Although we built Fleets to address some of the anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting, Fleets are mostly used by people who are already Tweeting to amplify their own Tweets Eventually I stop…

Most fleets in my timeline were solely to make fun of fleets.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by RankingMember »

taytus wrote: post #11
par wrote: post #4

> Although we built Fleets to address some of the anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting, Fleets are mostly used by people who are already Tweeting to amplify their own Tweets this is exactly my problem with Twitter. It's an even bigger echo chamber than FB. As much as I try, I can't seem to escape the oversaturated bubble of a handful of extremely loud mouthed tweeters and their ardent followers. Mix in the t…

> As much as I try, I can't seem to escape the oversaturated bubble Pro tip: Mute words and people. I can't tell you how much better my experience has been since I started growing my muted words list.

Thanks for pointing out that muting words was even an option! That seems like a super useful feature.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by jjj123 »

tills13 wrote: post #28
leviathant wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be selective in who you follow, and if you're following someone who shares interesting thoughts but retweets too much, you can turn off their retweets. That in combination with being judicious on the block button makes Twitter one of my favorite social networks.

I agree with you but don't all the actions you mention turn Twitter into an even larger, more strict echo chamber?

I’m not sure you can make that assumption.

Part of what makes these social networks echo chambers are the unconscious ways we navigate them: how long we linger on a post, stay in the site, etc. I’m not sure whether conscious decisions like being judicious with the follow and block buttons would pull you into more of an echo chamber than the algorithm does, especially if you’re selecting for things other than “this captures my short-term attention span.”

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by mdoms »

sharkweek wrote: post #6

IMO this should be the default feature of Twitter. I can't think of anything I'd be SUPER embarrassed of in my Twitter history, but context is important and something I might have Tweeted 10 years ago would look bad today, maybe. Still, I make it a point to delete all my tweets after they're a week old or so. Not interested in my random musings living on for all of digital eternity.

I use Tweet Delete[0] to auto-delete my tweets older than a month. I see no value in keeping old tweets around, especially compared to the risk that I inadvertently become briefly well-known and some wokes decide to trawl my timeline, take some tweet from 12 years ago out of context and convince my employer that I'm racist or something. Seen it happen too many times.

[0] https://tweetdelete.net/

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