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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 y

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 :)

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 :)