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I guess one could use an alt account for that.

bhawks 5y ago
The solution to Twitter is more Twitter? Twitter was nearly dead pre Trump. They really need to retrospect the correlation between how toxic communication has become over the period of their return to relevancy.
- mxmilkiib 5y ago
  I don't use Twitter and sparsely use Facebook. The feature to switch accounts without logging out had existed in many social services for a while now. On a service having toxic elements; like, HN is toxic, to a lesser degree obv., and no I don't have the energy to actually expound on that. One direct example though is that I got a downvote for noting the reality of the situation; The problem was someone wanting to follow voices on Twitter they wouldn't normally follow but avoid being caught in an automated system like the one linked. Using another account is something people do for this. IDK, is this something where noting a fact is taken by another party as a demand (to use the platform and engage in this way of using it), let alone a suggestion?
  - 2muchcoffeeman 5y ago
    Yes. I see a lot of down votes on HN on perfectly reasonable, to myself, comments. People are up/down voting too much as a “like button”. HN is still far better since you really need to be down voted for the moment to get hidden. But I’m inclined to think that more accounts is ultimately a bad solution since you’re forced to pretend you’re part of the in group.
oehpr 5y ago
Why's this getting downvoted? Having multiple persona's as a way to hack around the typical omnibus recommendation of content is a pretty good solution. Obviously it would be better if social media sites gave us a little more control. Firefox containers could make this process pretty easy, actually. Go to twitter, right click on twitters tab, "open in container". It will switch you to your alt, just like that. I use this for separating personal youtube from work youtube.

The solution to Twitter is more Twitter? Twitter was nearly dead pre Trump. They really need to retrospect the correlation between how toxic communication has become over the period of their return to relevancy.

mxmilkiib 5y ago
I don't use Twitter and sparsely use Facebook. The feature to switch accounts without logging out had existed in many social services for a while now. On a service having toxic elements; like, HN is toxic, to a lesser degree obv., and no I don't have the energy to actually expound on that. One direct example though is that I got a downvote for noting the reality of the situation; The problem was someone wanting to follow voices on Twitter they wouldn't normally follow but avoid being caught in an automated system like the one linked. Using another account is something people do for this. IDK, is this something where noting a fact is taken by another party as a demand (to use the platform and engage in this way of using it), let alone a suggestion?
- 2muchcoffeeman 5y ago
  Yes. I see a lot of down votes on HN on perfectly reasonable, to myself, comments. People are up/down voting too much as a “like button”. HN is still far better since you really need to be down voted for the moment to get hidden. But I’m inclined to think that more accounts is ultimately a bad solution since you’re forced to pretend you’re part of the in group.

oehpr 5y ago

Why's this getting downvoted? Having multiple persona's as a way to hack around the typical omnibus recommendation of content is a pretty good solution. Obviously it would be better if social media sites gave us a little more control. Firefox containers could make this process pretty easy, actually. Go to twitter, right click on twitters tab, "open in container". It will switch you to your alt, just like that. I use this for separating personal youtube from work youtube.