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This is exactly the problem: Twitter, unlike other platforms like Reddit and even Facebook, make curation impossible. Want to follow someone who posts a lot of

by altano 5y ago

This is exactly the problem: Twitter, unlike other platforms like Reddit and even Facebook, make curation impossible. Want to follow someone who posts a lot of interesting things about JS? Be prepared to see posts they like about curry poodles. Oh here’s some worst-in-class topic recommendations barfed out by depressed ML, and you can’t turn them off. What do you mean you don’t like Roseanne Nostalgia? Here are some Binky The Clown Stock Tips.

dewey 5y ago
> make curation impossible You can just use any of the numerous third party clients that have a sorted timeline and don't inject random posts in your timeline.
- brewdad 5y ago
  It's not the random posts, it's that the people you follow on Twitter are human (hopefully) and will post about things outside the core reason for following them. I follow a bunch of sports writers on Twitter to keep up on my favorite teams and fantasy stuff. Invariably, on slow news days, they will post about their kids, cats, the weather, anything other than the teams they cover. I generally don't mind but will unfollow if the balance gets too far out of whack or if they get political in an untenable way. YMMV as far as where to draw the line between content and fluff.
  - dewey 5y ago
    Fair enough, I was referring to the "Be prepared to see posts they like about" part of the argument where Twitter shows you random likes of people you follow in your stream.
- benhurmarcel 5y ago
  The issue is that you follow people, not topics. And a person usually has several interests.
rand0mx1 5y ago
you can choose latest tweets, no recommendations from ai
syshum 5y ago
Ironically Google's platform in their "circles" where an attempt (kinda) to solve that problem. All social media should be topic, not user based IMO. This is the way the internet was originally, it was not really personality, or people based. you joined a forum about fishing, woodworking, programming, or politics to engage with other people on those topics. Off Topic things where either isolated to a specific area of the community or banned completely. Today however we do not see to have topics on social media is it just a stream of everything about a person...

by altano 5y ago

dewey 5y ago

> make curation impossible You can just use any of the numerous third party clients that have a sorted timeline and don't inject random posts in your timeline.

brewdad 5y ago
It's not the random posts, it's that the people you follow on Twitter are human (hopefully) and will post about things outside the core reason for following them. I follow a bunch of sports writers on Twitter to keep up on my favorite teams and fantasy stuff. Invariably, on slow news days, they will post about their kids, cats, the weather, anything other than the teams they cover. I generally don't mind but will unfollow if the balance gets too far out of whack or if they get political in an untenable way. YMMV as far as where to draw the line between content and fluff.
- dewey 5y ago
  Fair enough, I was referring to the "Be prepared to see posts they like about" part of the argument where Twitter shows you random likes of people you follow in your stream.
benhurmarcel 5y ago
The issue is that you follow people, not topics. And a person usually has several interests.

rand0mx1 5y ago

you can choose latest tweets, no recommendations from ai

syshum 5y ago

Ironically Google's platform in their "circles" where an attempt (kinda) to solve that problem. All social media should be topic, not user based IMO. This is the way the internet was originally, it was not really personality, or people based. you joined a forum about fishing, woodworking, programming, or politics to engage with other people on those topics. Off Topic things where either isolated to a specific area of the community or banned completely. Today however we do not see to have topics on social media is it just a stream of everything about a person...