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Does the world seem a little brighter and happier to anyone else?
by Andrex 6y ago
Does the world seem a little brighter and happier to anyone else?
- fighterpilot 6y agoJust knowing that it's down makes me feel weirdly lighter. There's something about just knowing of the existence of the perpetual rhetorical conflict on there that contributes a tiny amount of background chronic stress.
- throwaway894345 6y agoI can deal with the chronic rhetorical conflict; the bit that troubles me is that this is divisiveness and hate as a business strategy. It’s the deliberate product of much of Silicon Valley’s ingenuity if not also it’s ethos.
- qrbLPHiKpiux 6y agoHate sells well and many are eager to buy.
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- Bukhmanizer 6y agoI don’t find Twitter more toxic than any other website. Much less so than reddit. It’s mostly about who you follow I think. I heavily mute accounts that tweet any political/inflammatory rhetoric on either side.
- aero-glide2 6y agoReddit front page is too political. I'm non-American so most of it isn't even relevant to me. I wish all social media had a "No Politics" button for the user to auto-hide all political posts.
- app4soft 6y ago> Reddit front page is too political. Simple solution - just skip frontpage & go to bookmarked sub-reddit, for example /r/SpaceXLounge[0]. [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/new https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/new
- aero-glide2 6y agoThat's my favorite sub haha
- numpad0 6y agoIt’s not just the front page. Reddit in itself is driving you to take side and fight for some justice. Methodically harmful.
- lr4444lr 6y agoI don't hear regularly about people's public reputations and careers being destroyed because of something posted on Reddit.
- jeromegv 6y agoSure, but twitter by nature is much more public. If you use your full legal name and decide to say something outrageous / attack people / etc, you can't be surprised if people take offense of it and report it in other medias.
- raverbashing 6y agoPretty much If you keep it between friends and known moderate accounts it's ok but there are dark areas of hyper-polarized accounts, major A-holes, and major garbage.
- Tenoke 6y agoNot really, I don't follow people that make me angry and specifically wanted to check on the latest updates of 2 projects at the time which I couldn't do as easily. If it seems brighter to you now and you are not just meme-ing, I'd recommend changing who you follow.
- mellosouls 6y agoIf it is that difficult to check the updates, perhaps they need another mechanism for updating people... I am not on Twitter and (whatever its undoubted positive potential) the overwhelming perception I have on it from various other media is negative. Feeling brighter is a very fair reaction.
- f6v 6y agoTwitter is where people say how offended they are.
- SilasX 6y agoNah, still see too many low effort jokes on HN.
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoTwitter's experience is bimodal. If you follow politicians and celebrities and shillers, you will encounter extreme toxicity. If you follow technical people in non-management positions [1], you will have smart and intelligent conversations flowing into your feed every day. [1] And ideally, whenever you see a politician on any side mentioned on your timeline, block their account and mute their name.
- neither_color 6y agoTwitter and reddit suffer from the same problem where even if you spend a lot of time curating your own niche following/subreddit list carefully crafted to avoid politics it's almost impossible to ignore other people's hot-takes or the feeds' headlines. In the end I set up my own nitter instance for twitter and subscribed to some accounts' RSS feed. For reddit the new layout is terrible and inserts headlines in between comments before you can read all comments. I use old.reddit with reddit enhancement suite and just use self-awareness techniques to remind myself to avoid going to the front page /all and make sure I'm logged in at all times so I only /home with my "boring" subs when I click on Snoo.
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoMuting words will go a long way towards removing hot takes. Every time you see a pattern of tweets on your timeline, just mute the key word. Having lots of false positives is worth it for having equally as many true positives. Of course, if twitter allowed arbitrary "regexp" to block content, that would fix most of the problem. But you will never get the perfect timeline, but you can make it an overall positive experience.
- detaro 6y agoMute words are very useful, yes. You can also turn off retweets from individual users, which also can help cut down on noise.