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This is very good advice. One of my most upvoted Hacker News comments was saying that creating an account and whitelisting the subreddits you want to read is a
by abnry 8y ago
This is very good advice. One of my most upvoted Hacker News comments was saying that creating an account and whitelisting the subreddits you want to read is a tremendous improvement on reddit.
Funny thing to me is that it is really hard to isolate yourself in this way on Twitter. I've spent a lot of time trying to do this but politics always seems to leak through. One thing that has helped is by turning off retweets for as many people as I can.
- theNJR 8y agoUgh this is so true about Twitter. It really does seem like the feed is filled with political retweets. Good idea about turning them off.
- dvtrn 8y agoDoes anyone know if such functionality exists to disable seeing likes? I've turned off all retweets for exactly the reasons discussed but twitter still shows me that so and so liked some snarky thing so and si said about So and Se, Candidate from State about current affair. If I can prune that last bit, my twitter feed just might be saved.
- abnry 8y agoI think Twitter's CEO is trying find ways to break "echo chambers" on twitter. I suspect this is part of the reason we are seeing what other people have liked. I get the reasoning, and maybe it would work, except that the liked tweets are usually the most inflammatory.
- svat 8y agoYes: create a "list" on Twitter, add the people you want to that list, and visit just that list (not the main Twitter stream/feed/timeline/whatever). The list does not show likes. (But I haven't tried combining it with disabling retweets...)
- SECProto 8y agoif you click the ... on the "so and so liked this tweet" and select "dont show me this", it hides that particular "liked" tweet. Do it enough, and it seems to hide them all. At least it worked for me - I only see original tweets and retweets from those i havent turned off. YMMV
- 0xADEADBEE 8y agoI've a similar problem on Twitter. I don't follow anyone for their political views, so I typically unfollow as soon as I read some but it's far from an optimal solution. I resisted setting an account up for years on Reddit, but you're absolutely right - it's the only way to effectively filter things you don't want to see.
- will_pseudonym 8y agoSame with Facebook. I usually just unfollow people who frequently post political things, but at the cost of missing out on their posts about their personal lives. I wish there was a "subject" filter that I could use to filter out political posts.
- 0xADEADBEE 8y agoTwitter has one I learned recently, but it's pretty enfeebled. It's as far as I can tell, exact matches only, which sounds fine perhaps in the design phase, but was deeply frustrating in practice. There's a new political candidate in America generating lots of buzz who has several permutations of their name (abbreviations and hyphens were my undoing here), so I ended up having to add several entries just to not hear about politics in a country I don't live in!
- james_s_tayler 8y agoI put in so many things to filter out politics. Still inundated with it.
- username3 8y agoFeed idea: block posts from user unless tagged with a subject. Show users your post may not be visible unless tagged. Follow people AND subjects.
- asdff 8y agoWhy the pushback on a reddit account? You don't need to post or comment. You also don't need an account if you want to whitelist with the RES extension instead: https://redditenhancementsuite.com/ https://redditenhancementsuite.com/
- lanevorockz 8y agoTwitter is a rage machine, that’s what makes people glued to it. Twitter threads are also a waste of time.
- abnry 8y agoYou're right about the rage machine. I don't mind the threads. When you follow the right people, it is pretty fun to see how their brain thinks in real time. I love thinking out loud in front of my audience too.
- uncletaco 8y agoHonestly my twitter experience became a lot better once I self imposed a rule to not follow politicians, journalists, and dedicated joke accounts. Now it's mostly fighting game community nerds and anime nerds who spend most of their -- who am I kidding, our -- time making memes and checking to see who's showing up where in terms of cons or tournaments.
- mikekchar 8y agoMastodon has a better workflow for that experience. I find it difficult to find people to follow, but my browsing experience is very stress free day to day.
- Bograff 8y agoThis may be more work than some are willing to do but I took the opposite approach. I browse /r/all almost exclusively but I've got RES filtering any subreddit I don't want to see in my feed again. The list of filters gets long.
- thosakwe 8y agoTwitter’s content muring is useless in that it still shows quote Tweets if anyone you mute in your timeline. I have POTUS, Tomi Lahren, and several others blocked and muted, yet they still appear in my timeline because of the infamous “slam dunk quote tweet” phenomenon. It’s not just hard to filter things out on Twitter; it’s downright impossible.
- rchaud 8y ago> One of my most upvoted Hacker News comments was saying that creating an account and whitelisting the subreddits you want to read is a tremendous improvement on reddit. I am surprised this has to be said. It's the same thing with Youtube. Unless you're signed in and have set your own preferences, you will be exposed to the dumpster fire that is mainstream internet content...high schooler humor, conspiracy garbage, superhero movie trailers, etc.
- rthomas6 8y agoTry the Fediverse (Mastodon)! It's set up to be less inflammatory because the retweet equivalent doesn't allow embedding your own response. It's also easier to create an isolated island for yourself. Find an instance that aligns with your interests, or do what I'm doing and create your own!