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My problem with twitter is not even user spam, but twitters own engagement spam, it seems to be impossible to just see the content of people I follow I recentl

by smoe 4y ago

My problem with twitter is not even user spam, but twitters own engagement spam, it seems to be impossible to just see the content of people I follow I recently signed up first time after like 8 years to follow a handful of interesting accounts. But only maybe 20% of stuff I see is actually from them, the rest is all suggestions by twitter what people/topics I should follow or what people that the people I follow follow posted, etc. And there only seems to be ways to show "fewer" of something, not get rid of it altogether. Completely useless. I reckon there are third party apps and browser extensions to filter this, but since I don't care about those few accounts I follow enough either, I couldn't be bothered and deleted my account again.

knocknock 4y ago
if you switch from the "Home" timeline to the "Latest Tweets" timeline, you should only see things from people you follow.
fknorangesite 4y ago
You can switch between "Home" (default, what you're describing) and "Latest" (what you want) feeds. I'm not sure about a mobile app, if that's what you're using, but on web at least it's the stars-icon-button in the top right of the feed.
- patch_cable 4y ago
  Mobile app works the same way. Twitter is basically unusable to me without changing this setting.
mzs 4y ago
I think twitter wants you to make a list for that.
dotnet00 4y ago
The only way Twitter is usable to me is using the 'Better Twitter' browser extension, which filters out most of their recommendation stuff.
cxr 4y ago
> I recently signed up first time after like 8 years to follow a handful of interesting accounts I've done that a few times over the years and have always later ended up deleting my account for the same reason I didn't have one in the first place. Then I realized how silly it is to sign up to follow someone when you can just bookmark their profile and check up on them every now and then—the same way anyone not using RSS would "follow" the Web sites they were interested in ~15 years ago.
numpad0 4y ago
Latest temporary mitigation snakeoil is searching for “filter:follows -filter:replies include:nativeretweets” and using that search page as home timeline. Following one used to work, for reference: https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac56f9bd36ec https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac5...

by smoe 4y ago

knocknock 4y ago

if you switch from the "Home" timeline to the "Latest Tweets" timeline, you should only see things from people you follow.

fknorangesite 4y ago

You can switch between "Home" (default, what you're describing) and "Latest" (what you want) feeds. I'm not sure about a mobile app, if that's what you're using, but on web at least it's the stars-icon-button in the top right of the feed.

patch_cable 4y ago
Mobile app works the same way. Twitter is basically unusable to me without changing this setting.

mzs 4y ago

I think twitter wants you to make a list for that.

dotnet00 4y ago

The only way Twitter is usable to me is using the 'Better Twitter' browser extension, which filters out most of their recommendation stuff.

cxr 4y ago

> I recently signed up first time after like 8 years to follow a handful of interesting accounts I've done that a few times over the years and have always later ended up deleting my account for the same reason I didn't have one in the first place. Then I realized how silly it is to sign up to follow someone when you can just bookmark their profile and check up on them every now and then—the same way anyone not using RSS would "follow" the Web sites they were interested in ~15 years ago.

numpad0 4y ago

Latest temporary mitigation snakeoil is searching for “filter:follows -filter:replies include:nativeretweets” and using that search page as home timeline. Following one used to work, for reference: https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac56f9bd36ec https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac5...