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Same thing here. Was following smart programmers and engineers on programming related matters. Fast forward a few years and most of them were spending their tim

Same thing here. Was following smart programmers and engineers on programming related matters. Fast forward a few years and most of them were spending their time talking about completely unrelated US political matters and petty drama 99% of the time and very little actual programming stuff. I just removed Twitter from my phone. I'm not sure how Twitter works now, but I imagine that a system of bot generated topics rather than direct following would be better suited for people like me. Hashtags don't work, anybody can put any hashtag they want, even when the tweet is completely unrelated to the hashtag.

skinkestek 6y ago
> and most of them were spending their time talking about completely unrelated US political matters and petty drama 99% of the time and very little actual programming stuff. And that was one of the brilliant things about Google+: You could post under different topics so people could read my programming or local posts without having to cope with my religious or political posts (just examples, I never got around to the two last ones I think). Another thing was - after Google lost the nym wars their ux for using pseudonym accounts became one of the best I was aware of (no, it is not the same as the multiple-logged-in-accounts ux which I find rather unsatisfactory, but I guess parts of it lives on in YouTube were I can still see my pseudonym(s) when I log in.)
- ac2u 6y ago
  >You could post under different topics so people could read my programming or local posts without having to cope with my religious or political posts (just examples, I never got around to the two last ones I think). I don't think that would work thesedays. If you had a political post, I'd say you'd correctly keep it in its correct circle (based on you highlighting the feature here), but since Google+ was a thing, a new generation of twitter addicts have the mantra of "everything is political, even looking at a keyboard is a political act, politics affects everything you do, even if you just sit there, so that's why my political rant is in your model train collector circle #sorrynotsorry" So they'd abuse the circles feature with that mantra as an excuse.
  - StavrosK 6y ago
    Then you unfollow them.
    - ac2u 6y ago
      Which is fine. But my point wasn't so much in search of a solution, rather the fact that circles in itself likely wouldn't be a solution with the impact for which it was designed.
- tomjen3 6y ago
  Google got it nearly right, but it was still the creator who had to choose the circle to post it in. I want a social network where I can choose to follow people and some tags - want to be able to follow you, when you are not talking about politics and remain 100% ignorant of any posts you make about politics.

skinkestek 6y ago

> and most of them were spending their time talking about completely unrelated US political matters and petty drama 99% of the time and very little actual programming stuff. And that was one of the brilliant things about Google+: You could post under different topics so people could read my programming or local posts without having to cope with my religious or political posts (just examples, I never got around to the two last ones I think). Another thing was - after Google lost the nym wars their ux for using pseudonym accounts became one of the best I was aware of (no, it is not the same as the multiple-logged-in-accounts ux which I find rather unsatisfactory, but I guess parts of it lives on in YouTube were I can still see my pseudonym(s) when I log in.)

ac2u 6y ago
>You could post under different topics so people could read my programming or local posts without having to cope with my religious or political posts (just examples, I never got around to the two last ones I think). I don't think that would work thesedays. If you had a political post, I'd say you'd correctly keep it in its correct circle (based on you highlighting the feature here), but since Google+ was a thing, a new generation of twitter addicts have the mantra of "everything is political, even looking at a keyboard is a political act, politics affects everything you do, even if you just sit there, so that's why my political rant is in your model train collector circle #sorrynotsorry" So they'd abuse the circles feature with that mantra as an excuse.
- StavrosK 6y ago
  Then you unfollow them.
  - ac2u 6y ago
    Which is fine. But my point wasn't so much in search of a solution, rather the fact that circles in itself likely wouldn't be a solution with the impact for which it was designed.
tomjen3 6y ago
Google got it nearly right, but it was still the creator who had to choose the circle to post it in. I want a social network where I can choose to follow people and some tags - want to be able to follow you, when you are not talking about politics and remain 100% ignorant of any posts you make about politics.