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>I’m one of those people that preferred Twitter before it became overrun with politics. Not that I'm not political, but it's not what I wanted to go to Twitter
by ksniwmidjd 4y ago
>I’m one of those people that preferred Twitter before it became overrun with politics. Not that I'm not political, but it's not what I wanted to go to Twitter for.
You know that you can follow who you want on Twitter, right? You made it political for yourself by following people that talk politics
- toofy 4y agothis ignores the algorithm pushing stuff to you and it entirely ignores comments from randoms.
- simondotau 4y agoDoes it though? Aside from trending sidebar, I’ve never had the algorithm show me a tweet that wasn’t tweeted or retweeted or liked by someone I’m following.
- thwarted 4y agoMost people are in the "home view" which is algorithm based. I've heard reports of twitter switching people back to the "home view" randomly without them doing anything. This has never happened to me, it's never switched to "home" without me doing it explicitly, so who knows what actually happens. I'm always in the timeline view, which only shows tweets and retweets from people I follow.
- zerocrates 4y agoThe Android app at least used to be fairly aggressive about flipping you back to "Home," but at some point it seems to have stopped doing that.
- hnews_account_1 4y ago1) this definitely happens if your timeline is on the algorithmic version and not the chronological one. 2) the problem is precisely that I do not want to know what my very topic oriented follow is doing in terms of political tweeting. I’m sure this is a hard problem to solve, and I don’t want someone to be non-political for the sake of their follows. In most instances, I 100% agree with their views without reservation even. I just don’t want to see it on twitter. I would like to see any non political, topic oriented content they like and retweet however.