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I agree. Earlier this year I muted and blocked on Twitter until there was almost nothing left in my feed. And then the ugliness grew up again and I ignored it.
by throwaway9980 6y ago
I agree. Earlier this year I muted and blocked on Twitter until there was almost nothing left in my feed. And then the ugliness grew up again and I ignored it. Very interestingly late last week my Twitter feed suddenly went from being dominated by ugly political yelling to mostly benign cultural commentary. I was struck by it and wonder if there is an on/off switch that was thrown in order to cool things in the days before the election.
- bglazer 6y agoTwitter stopped showing "liked" tweets from people you don't follow on the timeline. It's been an enormously positive change, in my opinion. It also happens to be a change that their users have been requesting for years. But, they have ignored those requests until they felt that this feature might actually hasten the destruction of American democracy. Dragging people into fights with people they've never met is quite good for engagement, as has been endlessly noted. I have no doubt they'll reinstate this feature after the election. Speaking personally, there are several people I follow who never actually generated real content. Instead they just liked asinine, toxic political takes, which then filled my feed. https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/2020-election-changes.html https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/2020-elec...
- ericd 6y agoEvery time I visit Twitter, I'm reminded incredibly forcefully why I don't use Twitter. The level of discourse is just so much lower than anything else I see day to day, even major subreddits.