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Maybe don't use Twitter for politics? I use Twitter to follow many AI researchers and it's great to keep up with the latest papers and so on. Also Twitter sup
by cypress66 3y ago
Maybe don't use Twitter for politics?
I use Twitter to follow many AI researchers and it's great to keep up with the latest papers and so on.
Also Twitter supports long tweets now, and people have always created threads anyway.
- iamflimflam1 3y agoExactly this. About a year ago I purged all the political accounts I was following. All it was doing was making me feel angry and helpless. Now I just follow fellow makers and tech people. Twitter is fun again.
- hnbad 3y agoHaving used Twitter threads and a Mastodon instance with a limit of 8000 characters, I have to say that the latter actually makes me less verbose. Due to the per-message character limit and the widespread use of quote-retweeting I felt like I had to make sure every tweet was defensible in isolation so tweet threads just turn into the most mundane one-liners so there's still enough room in each to provide context. Twitter's threading UI also only supports standalone tweet threads and does nothing to help with composing multi-tweet replies so those often go out of order eventually and people will reply to individual tweets rather than the end of each sub-thread.