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My solution was to delete my Twitter account. I've never regretted it, and feel downright smug when I hear about the latest purity shitstorm in the communities
by senderista 7y ago
My solution was to delete my Twitter account. I've never regretted it, and feel downright smug when I hear about the latest purity shitstorm in the communities I used to follow.
- _bxg1 7y agoI use Muted Words and block accounts liberally, to scorch-earth anything that might possibly be adjacent to anything political. This filters probably 90% of what I would otherwise encounter. I don't delete my account because it's a uniquely vibrant resource for game dev and digital art, two of my hobbies. The actual people I follow are generally really nice; it's just the people they occasionally retweet and then the replies that other people make to those retweets that get into the mud.
- wool_gather 7y agoHave you found new communities, though? Surely there is some lost value -- maybe not specifically on Twitter, but generally -- when one drops an old group.
- senderista 7y agoThe only communities I miss were on old-school forums, not Facebook or Twitter. There could be plenty of drama but not at the scale and virulence of Twitter. I think the reason is that people were more interested in communicating than in signaling.