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It will be interesting to see how Twitter changes as a result. Twitter with selective following and setting your timeline to 'time order' creates a pretty good
by ChuckMcM 5y ago
It will be interesting to see how Twitter changes as a result. Twitter with selective following and setting your timeline to 'time order' creates a pretty good environment for me. It feels like the equivalent of living in only a few chosen 'subreddits' rather than getting the full frontal reddit experience.
- cblconfederate 5y agoSame. It's a handy RSS replacement. Or a telegraph office
- LegitShady 5y agoLong ago I made a reddit account with the first suggested name after the one I asked for was 'taken', disabled following all the subreddits, and then selectively added subreddits specific to my hobbies. I don't see anything that normally hits the front page, everything I do see is somewhat relevant to me, and it basically deletes all politics from what is presented. By far the best reddit experience possible, I think.
- 8ytecoder 5y agoMind sharing a few interesting ones?
- riffic 5y agomind sharing what you're into?
- LegitShady 5y agothey're literally my personal interests. Find smaller subreddits related to your personal interests. If you don't like the same things I like my subreddits are unlikely to be interesting to you. The whole point here is to get rid of the all of the default subreddits, since they become garbage once they become default no matter what, and then find things that you're actually interested in that aren't default and thus not full of 'normies' who ruin most of reddit. There was a time before reddit got huuuuge that most of it was pretty ok, but that time was years and years ago. Now there are just niche subreddits of quality and an ocean of garbage.
- mrhands556 5y agoI used to enjoy reddit so much but it’s honestly the worst place on the internet today. Every major sub is infested with politics, bias mods and toxic comments. I wouldn’t be surprised if reddit is heavily influenced by bot activity. If you were a foreign influence who wanted to convey a certain narrative, then reddit would be the de-facto place for that. 1. Upvote and downvote system, where downvoted squelch bad takes, is perfect for narrative forming. 2. The demographic for reddit are young minds who most likely have a position on a certain topic because they’ve been told to from a place like reddit.
- hanniabu 5y agor/ethfinance
- ryantgtg 5y agoI assumed this is how almost everyone uses reddit!
- LegitShady 5y agoby vote counts its clear the default subs (and subs that used to be default) are the biggest with the most traffic, so probably not.
- bikson 5y agoThis is the way. But also creating information bubble.
- LegitShady 5y agoI don't get any news from reddit - its purely an entertainment vehicle for me, so I don't worry about the bubble portion of it. If I'm in a synthesizer or fiction writing bubble, so be it.
- nend 5y agoThis seems to hold true for many social media sites: facebook, reddit, twitter. It takes effort on behalf of the user to make their experience on the site "better". And by better I mean, less divisive, and less mindless scrolling of memes/low effort content. Thinking about it from the business's perspective, it probably ultimately also lowers their user engagement metrics. Users get a higher quality experience using the site, but also spend less time on the site. It sorta reminds me of the freemium/grinding experience in games today. It makes for a worse game experience, but a better company bottom line.
- ecuzzillo 5y agoTrue, but it's easy to find games that don't use that model (especially on desktop or console), whereas it's hard to find a way to consume thoughts from interesting people outside of twitter.
- imajoredinecon 5y agoRead a book?
- throwaway6734 5y ago>it's hard to find a way to consume thoughts from interesting people outside of twitter. You can subscribe to high quality substacks and publications
- JohnBooty 5y agoIt takes effort on behalf of the user to make their experience on the site "better" Broadly, I agree. I would say that for me, Twitter falls approximately halfway between: 1. Facebook: which is only barely tolerable, after much effort, and still seems to optimize for negative emotions, spam, etc and 2. Reddit: with minimal effort (just need to subscribe to subreddits) it is an entirely personalized experience of exactly what I want to see
- mrhands556 5y agoReddit is and will change more over time. Today I get “posts you may like” on my home feed which are basically rehashed horrible takes from /r/politics on a different subreddit.
- joelthelion 5y agoI suppose they're going to monetize more aggressively? Sigh...
- AzzieElbab 5y agoPersonally, I prefer using lists but I do not participate much, just consume ...
- jerlam 5y agoLists are fantastic. Pinning them on mobile makes them very accessible. They can be set to private which means that you don't show up as a follower. I think Twitter has forgotten about them, since they don't display ads.
- AzzieElbab 5y agoI wish I could pin more than 5 of them
- Spooky23 5y agoI'm sure the first change will be the redemption of a certain political figure.
- riffic 5y agowhy bother. certain political figure has their own Mastodon installation now.
- egypturnash 5y ago...which was discussed on the #fediblock tag as soon as it went up, with a lot of admins who set up their own Mastodons because they were sick of that guy constantly showing up on Twitter immediately defederating from that particular instance. Being able to block entire instances is a really, really nice power.
- localhost 5y agoI use tweetdeck and only follow specific users, i.e., all my columns are "user" columns. It's kind of like a micro-blog RSS feed of sorts. It's wonderful if you're careful about who you follow.
- lucasverra 5y agoi've been using tweetdeck the last 2 weeks and its a dream. is there something better?
- spamfilter247 5y agoCheck out “Fenix” (3rd party client on Apple platforms) - it mimics the multi-column view, but is more flexible; a list can be a Twitter list, a search query etc.
- localhost 5y agoI haven't used Fenix before (it does look nice!), but I can definitely do all of the above in tweetdeck and did so in the past before raising my walls by following only specific users.
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- 63 5y agoThe difference for me has always beem that Twitter is organized by person rather than by topic. In some ways that's good if I'm following someone because I care about them personally, but usually I follow people because I'm interested in a particular aspect of their work like art or announcements. In those cases, I don't want to hear about their political opinions or what their child did that week. I know you can follow topics as well, but that often seems overwhelming and imprecise. Social media as a platform is just incredibly confusing in the way it blurs the line between performer and audience.
- Talanes 5y agoLikes and Retweets are the big annoyances, IMO. If I'm following someone, it's because I want to see the content that they are consciously putting out, not just whatever they impulsively click a heart on. And unless you're a personal friend or a particularly interesting content aggregator, I probably don't care about your RTs either.
- baud147258 5y agoI've been mostly successful in removing likes from people I'm following by using (on the desktop) the ... > I'm not interested in this tweet > show fewer likes from X. Though sometime likes reappear and I have to reload the page once or twice to get a chronological timeline. Though that doesn't do anything about retweets.
- cpeterso 5y agoMuting words or hashtags helps a lot for focusing your timeline, though Twitter's mute list has a max of 200 words.
- nfrankel 5y agoI've found the solution a while ago: unfollow. I only follow people who tweet about themes that interest me. If somebody wants to tell the world their private life, good for them, but without me.
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- koheripbal 5y agoThere's just too much noise - not nearly enough signal.
- emerged 5y agoSociety is going through a learning process in understanding the value of scope in our social environments. If you simply connect all the nodes into a gigantic hyper graph you get a constantly evolving shithole. It’s like programming using only global variables.
- preseinger 5y agoThere is both value and risk in highly personalized social scoping. The largest risk IMO is epistemic closure, which at large scale is corrosive to society. A platform which has the effect of enabling frictionless epistemic bubbles for everyone is harmful, not beneficial. This is a systemic risk of decentralization in all of its forms, too, really. At its most extreme, a world comprised of arbitrarily many self-governed communities is a dystopia.
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