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> I haven't found a community of folks who are building products, ideas, sharing thoughts, talking tech, talking lessons learned about growing their company, vi

> I haven't found a community of folks who are building products, ideas, sharing thoughts, talking tech, talking lessons learned about growing their company, virtually collaborating on problems by sharing ideas, etc. Twitter can be exactly this, but you have to put in some work to curate your follow list. You also have to be quick to unfollow anyone who turns out to be spammy or picking fights all of the time. If you just let your follow list grow unbounded, the quality of Twitter goes way down. If you follow and unfollow all the time, you can get a fairly interesting Twitter feed full of people sharing projects and discussing ideas.

cblconfederate 5y ago
It's hard to participate. It's good for finding interesting ideas and people, but participating is a job on its own , since everything seems to attract the wrong people. Too public, too much anxiety
Terry_Roll 5y ago
Picking fights is a valid efficient form of communication and means of getting things done. Survival is in everyone's interest thats why country's go to war, it speeds up change.
- ehutch79 5y ago
  On twitter, it's an efficient form of stirring up useless drama.
- m00x 5y ago
  Twitter fights are well known to turn into meaningful change. /s
  - Terry_Roll 5y ago
    Well it got Trump into office didnt it? https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-trump-campaign-strategy-to-deter-millions-of-black-americans-from-voting-in-2016 https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-trump-campaign-strate... https://www.channel4.com/news/topic/cambridge-analytica https://www.channel4.com/news/topic/cambridge-analytica But its not just twitter thats being manipulated and today we have algo's analysing everything making automated decisions, after all thats what cyber warfare is as discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29896985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29896985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29872227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29872227 https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/twitter-botnets-research https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/twitter-botnets-r... Things have got even better now since this guardian article was written. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op... Look at #PartyGate with Boris Johnson for a recent example. It does make changes, the police are now forced to investigate the Govt & politicians! I dont think you realise how much people are manipulated consciously and subconsciously.
    - dtjb 5y ago
      There's a gulf between holding politicians accountable and "picking fights online."
      - Terry_Roll 5y ago
        This is hacker news isnt it? Doesnt everyone have their own botnet now a days? ;-)
codemonkeysh 5y ago
Twitter use to be a place to find folks of common interests, but its been flooded with political and other highly annoying topics that I prefer to avoid. Sadly, there's not good way to filter out the content and they keep flooding you with it :( R.I.P Twitter for me; haven't touched it in over 2 years.
- PragmaticPulp 5y ago
  > Twitter use to be a place to find folks of common interests, but its been flooded with political and other highly annoying topics that I prefer to avoid. Unfollow those people. It doesn't make any sense to follow a lot of people and then get angry about the content they're posting. Like I said, if you let your follow list grow unbounded and you never go back and remove people, you'll eventually be flooded with content you don't want to see. See someone posting politics and topics you prefer to avoid? Unfollow.
  - bluedino 5y ago
    The problem is that everyone is a expert on politics, economics, contagious diseases... There are a lot of great people in the technical world that put their opinions on non-technical subjects out there
    - jpindar 5y ago
      You can block the keywords associated with those subjects.
      - codemonkeysh 5y ago
        The list is very long and forever growing - plus sadly, a lot of people tend to reply with images to prove a political point or to mock someone.
  - pmarreck 5y ago
    This reminds me of something I should do more. If you DO like to discuss those things, but also like to discuss tech, consider doing them on separate accounts.
masaav 5y ago
what about indiehackers?

cblconfederate 5y ago

It's hard to participate. It's good for finding interesting ideas and people, but participating is a job on its own , since everything seems to attract the wrong people. Too public, too much anxiety

Terry_Roll 5y ago

Picking fights is a valid efficient form of communication and means of getting things done. Survival is in everyone's interest thats why country's go to war, it speeds up change.

ehutch79 5y ago
On twitter, it's an efficient form of stirring up useless drama.
m00x 5y ago
Twitter fights are well known to turn into meaningful change. /s
- Terry_Roll 5y ago
  Well it got Trump into office didnt it? https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-trump-campaign-strategy-to-deter-millions-of-black-americans-from-voting-in-2016 https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-trump-campaign-strate... https://www.channel4.com/news/topic/cambridge-analytica https://www.channel4.com/news/topic/cambridge-analytica But its not just twitter thats being manipulated and today we have algo's analysing everything making automated decisions, after all thats what cyber warfare is as discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29896985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29896985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29872227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29872227 https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/twitter-botnets-research https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/twitter-botnets-r... Things have got even better now since this guardian article was written. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op... Look at #PartyGate with Boris Johnson for a recent example. It does make changes, the police are now forced to investigate the Govt & politicians! I dont think you realise how much people are manipulated consciously and subconsciously.
  - dtjb 5y ago
    There's a gulf between holding politicians accountable and "picking fights online."
    - Terry_Roll 5y ago
      This is hacker news isnt it? Doesnt everyone have their own botnet now a days? ;-)

codemonkeysh 5y ago

Twitter use to be a place to find folks of common interests, but its been flooded with political and other highly annoying topics that I prefer to avoid. Sadly, there's not good way to filter out the content and they keep flooding you with it :( R.I.P Twitter for me; haven't touched it in over 2 years.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> Twitter use to be a place to find folks of common interests, but its been flooded with political and other highly annoying topics that I prefer to avoid. Unfollow those people. It doesn't make any sense to follow a lot of people and then get angry about the content they're posting. Like I said, if you let your follow list grow unbounded and you never go back and remove people, you'll eventually be flooded with content you don't want to see. See someone posting politics and topics you prefer to avoid? Unfollow.
- bluedino 5y ago
  The problem is that everyone is a expert on politics, economics, contagious diseases... There are a lot of great people in the technical world that put their opinions on non-technical subjects out there
  - jpindar 5y ago
    You can block the keywords associated with those subjects.
    - codemonkeysh 5y ago
      The list is very long and forever growing - plus sadly, a lot of people tend to reply with images to prove a political point or to mock someone.
- pmarreck 5y ago
  This reminds me of something I should do more. If you DO like to discuss those things, but also like to discuss tech, consider doing them on separate accounts.

masaav 5y ago

what about indiehackers?