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Twitter used to be controlled by the blue tribe. Now it’s been bought by a (perceived) member of the red tribe. It’s a simple as that. People feel the need to

by cbeach 4y ago

Twitter used to be controlled by the blue tribe. Now it’s been bought by a (perceived) member of the red tribe. It’s a simple as that. People feel the need to signal their tribal affiliation and attack those from other tribes. Been part of human behaviour since humans began.

op00to 4y ago
No.
IntelMiner 4y ago
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harvey9 4y ago
Non partisan reasons to dislike Twitter as a tool of communication were posted before you made this comment. Anyway, your experience of any social media depends on how you curate it. For example I only follow professional photographers on Instagram so that's the only kind of content I see there.
- ashwagary 4y ago
  >Anyway, your experience of any social media depends on how you curate it. That's not entirely true anymore. Many users of Twitter have recently mentioned the alarming number of violent videos being added to their "For You" suggestions. These users are largely self-siloed into the industry they operate in and self-describe as people that dont follow "fight video" accounts or people that consume that content. It seems either the suggestion algo has been broken, is being gamed by users, or the platform owners are choosing to feed users toxic content that they didnt request for some reason.
chaxor 4y ago
On a tech forum one would expect the reasons to be more centered upon tech rather than (what I think you're referring to anyway) politics. Twitter sucks because it's full of JavaScript and tracking that you don't need, so I would imagine that most on HN would find it burdensome to even view the content, since many in tech whittle the content down to only getting the packets necessary - which Twitter/Facebook make very difficult. Nitter has a much better user interface and makes it much easier to see what is happening on your device. Other than that, the content is mostly just low quality as well, so there's little reason to use it.

by cbeach 4y ago

op00to 4y ago

No.

IntelMiner 4y ago

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harvey9 4y ago

Non partisan reasons to dislike Twitter as a tool of communication were posted before you made this comment. Anyway, your experience of any social media depends on how you curate it. For example I only follow professional photographers on Instagram so that's the only kind of content I see there.

ashwagary 4y ago
>Anyway, your experience of any social media depends on how you curate it. That's not entirely true anymore. Many users of Twitter have recently mentioned the alarming number of violent videos being added to their "For You" suggestions. These users are largely self-siloed into the industry they operate in and self-describe as people that dont follow "fight video" accounts or people that consume that content. It seems either the suggestion algo has been broken, is being gamed by users, or the platform owners are choosing to feed users toxic content that they didnt request for some reason.

chaxor 4y ago

On a tech forum one would expect the reasons to be more centered upon tech rather than (what I think you're referring to anyway) politics. Twitter sucks because it's full of JavaScript and tracking that you don't need, so I would imagine that most on HN would find it burdensome to even view the content, since many in tech whittle the content down to only getting the packets necessary - which Twitter/Facebook make very difficult. Nitter has a much better user interface and makes it much easier to see what is happening on your device. Other than that, the content is mostly just low quality as well, so there's little reason to use it.