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> People who engage with social media do so freely. If the content wasn't what they wanted or sought out, it wouldn't be popular and successful. My local tenni

> People who engage with social media do so freely. If the content wasn't what they wanted or sought out, it wouldn't be popular and successful. My local tennis club only publishes to Twitter. They do not operate a mailing list anymore. I want to play tennis, be notified of same day court cancellations, be notified when new classes are available to book. I don’t want to use social media. What do I do? Give up tennis? Move to a different district where they don’t use Twitter? Set up a gofundme to depend on strangers to stump up for private lessons? Or suck it up and be an unwilling user of social media? So I suck it up and use Twitter.

nickelpro 5y ago
If they only published the information via newsletter you'd need to subscribe to that. If they only advertised via newspaper spots you'd need to subscribe to the paper. These are natural social pressures that you're succumbing to and that's fine, that's how society works. None of us is an island. In any case, you're not being forced to engage with Twitter's algorithm _beyond_ what you've bought into via your engagement with the tennis club. And the tennis club wasn't forced to engage with Twitter in the first place, they chose to.
- toomanybeersies 5y ago
  > you're not being forced to engage with Twitter's algorithm Maybe not forced, but strongly encouraged. On mobile, a quarter of my screen is taken up with prompts for me to join Twitter. Before it was made illegal in the USA and the UK in the 1930s, nobody "forced" children to work, they chose to (with the alternative of starvation). Regardless of their right to choose, child labour was seen as a harmful practice and subsequently outlawed. That being said, I'm not equating Twitter to child labour. My point is that the fact we are not "forced" to do something doesn't mean it's right, or should be allowed.
  - nickelpro 5y ago
    And my point is that your personal annoyance with the nature and content of information in public forums isn't a valid basis for legal censorship.
stevenicr 5y ago
I have a couple 'twitter to rss' things saved in my recent bookmarks - anyone know if / how these work? I've seen that fbook recently made it 'possible' to export your posts to wordpress.. We need to have data export options - and any 'public' page / group - should have export auto-enabled so that regular people can easily pull in via rss or rss-to-email - or similar type of accessibility imho. Not sure if this sort of thing is in the 'kitchen sink against tech valley' that the house is putting together, but it should be.

nickelpro 5y ago

If they only published the information via newsletter you'd need to subscribe to that. If they only advertised via newspaper spots you'd need to subscribe to the paper. These are natural social pressures that you're succumbing to and that's fine, that's how society works. None of us is an island. In any case, you're not being forced to engage with Twitter's algorithm _beyond_ what you've bought into via your engagement with the tennis club. And the tennis club wasn't forced to engage with Twitter in the first place, they chose to.

toomanybeersies 5y ago
> you're not being forced to engage with Twitter's algorithm Maybe not forced, but strongly encouraged. On mobile, a quarter of my screen is taken up with prompts for me to join Twitter. Before it was made illegal in the USA and the UK in the 1930s, nobody "forced" children to work, they chose to (with the alternative of starvation). Regardless of their right to choose, child labour was seen as a harmful practice and subsequently outlawed. That being said, I'm not equating Twitter to child labour. My point is that the fact we are not "forced" to do something doesn't mean it's right, or should be allowed.
- nickelpro 5y ago
  And my point is that your personal annoyance with the nature and content of information in public forums isn't a valid basis for legal censorship.

stevenicr 5y ago

I have a couple 'twitter to rss' things saved in my recent bookmarks - anyone know if / how these work? I've seen that fbook recently made it 'possible' to export your posts to wordpress.. We need to have data export options - and any 'public' page / group - should have export auto-enabled so that regular people can easily pull in via rss or rss-to-email - or similar type of accessibility imho. Not sure if this sort of thing is in the 'kitchen sink against tech valley' that the house is putting together, but it should be.