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This ferver demonstrates to me that Musk was right. Some people want Twitter to be exclusive to their own politics. They don't care about who they follow, they
by alxmng 4y ago
This ferver demonstrates to me that Musk was right. Some people want Twitter to be exclusive to their own politics. They don't care about who they follow, they care about who other people are following.
- anthropodie 4y agoI don't think that is the case. The problem is Twitter pushes things your way that you have nothing to do about. They send you notifications to random actor's birthday. Then they push Tweets in your feed to maximize engagement. I know that can be turned off but way too many people don't and then they end up engaging in topics they know nothing about. This then make stupid things trend on Twitter. People are not leaving Twitter because of politics, they are leaving because they are finally seeing the cesspool that Twitter is.
- MiguelX413 4y agoI never could JOIN Twitter for that reason. I tried to use it a year ago and I couldn't turn off all of the annoying inflammatory and inciteful comment not only in my feeds but in my NOTIFICATIONS. I just found it unusable and never became a regular user.
- luckylion 4y ago> I know that can be turned off but way too many people don't and then they end up engaging in topics they know nothing about. This is 95% of social media, including HN.
- alxmng 4y agoI don’t see what that has to do with Elon Musk or Donald Trump, which the blog post was about. What you describe was true long before Musk bought Twitter or Trump ran for president.
- anthropodie 4y agoYup it was. It has nothing to do with blog. I am just stating my problem with Twitter like others in this comment section.
- NoPie 4y agoDid you notice that you again talked about how other people view tweets, not that you personally couldn't switch to chronological view and enjoy only tweets from people you follow?
- anthropodie 4y agoI dont even have Twitter. I noticed how it drags us into things that we dont care about so I ditched it after brief use. I applaud your ability to only stick to your feed and not wonder off anywhere else on that site.
- thekashifmalik 4y agoThis is the salient point getting lost in a lot of conversations about Twitter and free speech. There seem to be a lot of people who not only want to control what they see on Twitter (understandable) but also want to control what others see. > But although Trump was a serial “main character”, as president he was unlike the all main characters who went before: he was fundamentally unavoidable. I encourage people who want to mould their own experience or echo chambers to use the block button.
- invalidname 4y agoNo. There should be red lines. There should be consequences. I stayed up until now. Clearly the new owner doesn't want us around. I won't stay where I'm not wanted. Since most of my friends already made the jump to Mastodon the decision isn't very hard...