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The way Twitter works for me is to select very carefully whom to follow. And to turn off retweets from everybody. If somebody tweets fluff, I immediately unfoll

The way Twitter works for me is to select very carefully whom to follow. And to turn off retweets from everybody. If somebody tweets fluff, I immediately unfollow them. It completely escapes me, what you can do with Instagram. You cannot do text posts. You cannot put links in your posts. I have never seen a single intelligent discussion taking place on Instagram. What do you use it for?

dewey 7y ago
> What do you use it for? Sharing pictures, which is what it was built for. It's not a platform for long form discussions or sharing links (That's why you can't even use links except one in your bio and everyone saying "link in bio" if they want to share something. There's even dedicated companies working around these restrictions and providing redirection services etc.
alistairSH 7y ago
Photos. Which is probably why I like it - no fake news, no political shouting matches, no other stuff that makes me unhappy. Just photos.
skinnymuch 7y ago
I think the knee jerk joke would be Twitter rarely has intelligent discussion too. Obviously that’s not true and I’m sure you follow people who discuss worthy things. But the toxic parts of Twitter are so bad, which is what most of it is, is so bad, unless you’re keeping on top as much as you are, it seems like you get exposed to some of it...that’s not an issue most of the time on IG. It’s there for a chill experience.
abdullahkhalids 7y ago
I also only follow people with very high signal to noise ratio, and it works for me. I will use the option to "Turn off retweets" from people who retweet useless fluff but tweet good stuff. What I would love is a button that temporarily removes the the retweets and/or tweets of a person from my timeline. Some people will on certain days get really passionate about an issue I don't care about and don't want to see 20 tweets from them, when their daily average is 1.

dewey 7y ago

> What do you use it for? Sharing pictures, which is what it was built for. It's not a platform for long form discussions or sharing links (That's why you can't even use links except one in your bio and everyone saying "link in bio" if they want to share something. There's even dedicated companies working around these restrictions and providing redirection services etc.

alistairSH 7y ago

Photos. Which is probably why I like it - no fake news, no political shouting matches, no other stuff that makes me unhappy. Just photos.

skinnymuch 7y ago

I think the knee jerk joke would be Twitter rarely has intelligent discussion too. Obviously that’s not true and I’m sure you follow people who discuss worthy things. But the toxic parts of Twitter are so bad, which is what most of it is, is so bad, unless you’re keeping on top as much as you are, it seems like you get exposed to some of it...that’s not an issue most of the time on IG. It’s there for a chill experience.

abdullahkhalids 7y ago

I also only follow people with very high signal to noise ratio, and it works for me. I will use the option to "Turn off retweets" from people who retweet useless fluff but tweet good stuff. What I would love is a button that temporarily removes the the retweets and/or tweets of a person from my timeline. Some people will on certain days get really passionate about an issue I don't care about and don't want to see 20 tweets from them, when their daily average is 1.