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This is really frightening for anyone who works in these fields but isn't on any of the main social networks. I left facebook and co years ago and feel much bet

This is really frightening for anyone who works in these fields but isn't on any of the main social networks. I left facebook and co years ago and feel much better for it. I get that marketing matters, but marketing on a shitshow like twitter seems sanity challenging.

eXpl0it3r 6y ago
Twitter is what you make it to be. If you follow people that post a lot of (angry) political stuff and you get yourself involved and also tweet about it, then yes, things become quickly a shitshow. If you however look for people that talk about stuff you're interested in or of your own field, then you can get a lot of interesting conversations with people all over the world. Use the unfollow button and/or mute option for people that bring too much negativity to your feed and don't engage in negativity yourself.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
  The problem is that (last time I looked) you can't only look at people's tweets. You have to see people's retweets too. So most attempts to only see certain aspects of twitter are too hard or incredibly limiting.
  - eXpl0it3r 6y ago
    With TweetDeck [1] you can select whether you want to include retweets or not [2], plus a lot of other useful options. However, I think RTs enhance the experience a lot, as you get to discover other people with similar interest kind of organically. But the same rule applies to people who RT a lot of negativity heavy tweets, just unfollow of mute them. If you're interested, I recently wrote a bit about how I've been using Twitter quite happily in the past few years [3]. [1] https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ [2] https://i.imgur.com/0GOMZvg.png https://i.imgur.com/0GOMZvg.png [3] https://dev.my-gate.net/2020/05/30/eight-years-on-twitter/ https://dev.my-gate.net/2020/05/30/eight-years-on-twitter/
    - 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
      Thanks for the pointers. You've convinced me to try to give it another try. Any idea whether there's a way to hide retweets from specific people while allowing retweets from others? Like for people who tweet content on topics I care about and retweet content on topics I want to stay away from? Like, instead of muting someone, just muting their retweets.
      - eXpl0it3r 6y ago
        I've not seen such a feature, but there are also a lot of third-party apps, so maybe one offers such a feature.
        6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
        Cool. Thanks again for the tips :)

eXpl0it3r 6y ago

Twitter is what you make it to be. If you follow people that post a lot of (angry) political stuff and you get yourself involved and also tweet about it, then yes, things become quickly a shitshow. If you however look for people that talk about stuff you're interested in or of your own field, then you can get a lot of interesting conversations with people all over the world. Use the unfollow button and/or mute option for people that bring too much negativity to your feed and don't engage in negativity yourself.

6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
The problem is that (last time I looked) you can't only look at people's tweets. You have to see people's retweets too. So most attempts to only see certain aspects of twitter are too hard or incredibly limiting.
- eXpl0it3r 6y ago
  With TweetDeck [1] you can select whether you want to include retweets or not [2], plus a lot of other useful options. However, I think RTs enhance the experience a lot, as you get to discover other people with similar interest kind of organically. But the same rule applies to people who RT a lot of negativity heavy tweets, just unfollow of mute them. If you're interested, I recently wrote a bit about how I've been using Twitter quite happily in the past few years [3]. [1] https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ [2] https://i.imgur.com/0GOMZvg.png https://i.imgur.com/0GOMZvg.png [3] https://dev.my-gate.net/2020/05/30/eight-years-on-twitter/ https://dev.my-gate.net/2020/05/30/eight-years-on-twitter/
  - 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
    Thanks for the pointers. You've convinced me to try to give it another try. Any idea whether there's a way to hide retweets from specific people while allowing retweets from others? Like for people who tweet content on topics I care about and retweet content on topics I want to stay away from? Like, instead of muting someone, just muting their retweets.
    - eXpl0it3r 6y ago
      I've not seen such a feature, but there are also a lot of third-party apps, so maybe one offers such a feature.
      - 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
        Cool. Thanks again for the tips :)