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Why I (mostly) dropped off Twitter
- CrystalLangUser 9y agoIt seems to me that this is partly about Twitter, and a lot about the author’s personal addiction to it. I never really got into twitter because of the reasons he listed: way too short messages, echo chambers, and people spouting inane streams of consciousness into the twitter ether. I don’t see the point of it; I see people with tens of thousands of tweets that don’t mean anything. — That said. I think twitter is great for keeping informed on certain events- for me, esports tournaments. I also think it’s useful for connecting with people and spreading info about what you’re doing- like OSS projects, etc. Lastly, it's hard to not be on twitter. It's such a huge social behemoth with a vast number of users, arbitrary limitations or not. There isn't really an alternative besides maybe mastodon if it had more people (doubt it; federation isn't easily grasped or shiny). — Like anything in life it’s about moderation. If you check HN 14 times a minute that’s bad also.
- akras14 9y agoAgreed, still I thought it was a very interesting reflection on Twitter and its community from one of the best JavaScript writers.