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> I fixed my twitter feed by unfollowing anyone the first time something they did resulted in me being upset. Even if it was a like. For me, that is actually o

> I fixed my twitter feed by unfollowing anyone the first time something they did resulted in me being upset. Even if it was a like. For me, that is actually one of the biggest annoyances with twitter. People who threaten to unfollow me or to block me if I follow or give a like to somebody who they don't like. Granted, it's not a practical problem yet because I only have very few followers, but it still annoys me. One of the reasons I have two accounts is that I want to follow "mutually exclusive" people. Maybe twitter shouldn't even show to other people what I liked or who I follow. Or the culture has to be changed to be more relaxed. Another thing that is related is that everybody is in their own cozy bubble, and when something from outside seeps in they get worked up. For those reasons I think the "feed" model of social media is broken, and the "cozy filter bubble feed" even more so. I want the old "social network" model from early Facebook and MySpace back, where you have a page, you can present youself there, and you can see who knows whom IRL.

3pt14159 5y ago
I understand you feel that way, but unfortunately the political spectrum has gotten too large and too dumb for me to tolerate it any more. I'm a centre leftist who thinks for himself and comes to right wing conclusions here and there. But when a non-trival number of people hold such obviously hostile or ill thought out opinions I'm going to filter them away. Twitter should let people have their likes as likes instead of making them a soft retweet based on data science, or at least let us mute it on a case-by-case basis.
- lariati 5y ago
  For me it is even more than this. I don't care about people's politics on literally any level. I don't hold strong beliefs either way on anything. If I want to think about politics I will read an old political science book. There isn't even any discussion of politics on twitter anyway. It is a weird type of recreational negative infotainment. I really want to make a profile that I don't delete in a few days but it is impossible. The platform is basically unusable unless one thinks starting the day off with a flood of negativity is a good idea.

3pt14159 5y ago

I understand you feel that way, but unfortunately the political spectrum has gotten too large and too dumb for me to tolerate it any more. I'm a centre leftist who thinks for himself and comes to right wing conclusions here and there. But when a non-trival number of people hold such obviously hostile or ill thought out opinions I'm going to filter them away. Twitter should let people have their likes as likes instead of making them a soft retweet based on data science, or at least let us mute it on a case-by-case basis.

lariati 5y ago
For me it is even more than this. I don't care about people's politics on literally any level. I don't hold strong beliefs either way on anything. If I want to think about politics I will read an old political science book. There isn't even any discussion of politics on twitter anyway. It is a weird type of recreational negative infotainment. I really want to make a profile that I don't delete in a few days but it is impossible. The platform is basically unusable unless one thinks starting the day off with a flood of negativity is a good idea.