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For me, as someone who tried to use Twitter but never got into it: I never could filter out the political, inflammatory, and inciteful side of Twitter. It was n

For me, as someone who tried to use Twitter but never got into it: I never could filter out the political, inflammatory, and inciteful side of Twitter. It was never useful for me in that way. I just never understood how to, if you could. Though I'd think it's difficult to, considering that's the whole business model.

christkv 4y ago
you can create filter keyword lists to get most of the crap out of your feed.
- Markoff 4y ago
  exactly, filtering Trump, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, Zelensky, Elisabeth, Queen, etc. helps a lot with annoying popular topics I'm not interested to hear about from others at all plus then there is megablock - find topic you have very clear opinion about and block everyone who likes completely crazy opinion to stop wasting time potentially reading tweets from people who like such opinion. does it create echo chamber? sure, but it's way healthier than wasting your own time getting angry about some crazies whatever side you are on https://megablock.xyz https://megablock.xyz
majewsky 4y ago
Switch from algorithmic to chronlogical feed (via the stars icon on the startpage of the app). Then, if you have your followings curated (which you likely already have anyway), you should not get much crap in your feed.
moistly 4y ago
The root problem is that there is a troubled subset of our population who delight in smearing shit on the walls. We’ve all seen it in real life public toilets, in that literal fashion, but it also comes in the form of ratfucking, like Stone, and in QAnon-style promotion of crazy conspiracy theories, and in many variations in-between. They engage in acts of destruction against the public good; they are destroyers of peace, of reason, of society. Some are legit mentally ill, but other are very savvy and are doing it with deliberation. Social media has broadened their reach and increased the volume of their smear. The root of the problem is not twitter.

christkv 4y ago

you can create filter keyword lists to get most of the crap out of your feed.

Markoff 4y ago
exactly, filtering Trump, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, Zelensky, Elisabeth, Queen, etc. helps a lot with annoying popular topics I'm not interested to hear about from others at all plus then there is megablock - find topic you have very clear opinion about and block everyone who likes completely crazy opinion to stop wasting time potentially reading tweets from people who like such opinion. does it create echo chamber? sure, but it's way healthier than wasting your own time getting angry about some crazies whatever side you are on https://megablock.xyz https://megablock.xyz

majewsky 4y ago

Switch from algorithmic to chronlogical feed (via the stars icon on the startpage of the app). Then, if you have your followings curated (which you likely already have anyway), you should not get much crap in your feed.

moistly 4y ago

The root problem is that there is a troubled subset of our population who delight in smearing shit on the walls. We’ve all seen it in real life public toilets, in that literal fashion, but it also comes in the form of ratfucking, like Stone, and in QAnon-style promotion of crazy conspiracy theories, and in many variations in-between. They engage in acts of destruction against the public good; they are destroyers of peace, of reason, of society. Some are legit mentally ill, but other are very savvy and are doing it with deliberation. Social media has broadened their reach and increased the volume of their smear. The root of the problem is not twitter.