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I still enjoy twitter, I find its death greatly exaggerated.

PointThink 3y ago
I could say the same about reddit except for the "enjoy" part. I imagine that in a while people will give up on finding alternatives and go back to reddit. Unless reddit keeps doing more stupid stuff it's not going away anytime soon.
- brucethemoose2 3y ago
  This is the story of Reddit for years. The best case trajectory for Reddit is Facebook's: a highly populated corporate cesspool of low quality leftovers. But that really is the best case, as Reddit doesn't have the "my family and my boss are on Facebook, so I have to be there" effect that Facebook has. It really does rely on some threshold of quality posts.
- draw_down 3y ago
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spike021 3y ago
Other than the rate limit issue this past Saturday I haven't really had any problems with it. I still self-curate who I follow with follow lists. I still get to be involved in baseball discussions with friends who have stuck it out there. I'm also able to continue following a large Japanese car community, especially friends I've made when visiting for that hobby. It's still a very useful place to be. You just have to do some work sometimes (follow lists, mute/blocklist words/phrases, etc.) to keep yourself more isolated from things you don't want to see.
hospitalJail 3y ago
If you want to follow domestic US politics/rage bait, I imagine you are having a good time. After the facebook stuff of 2016-2020, I went to twitter trying to avoid ragebait, it was there too. Its not dead, its just not helpful. You get way better stuff from individual subreddits. You get even better stuff reading a non-fiction book. Reddit's app suggests rage-bait which is why its become so bad.
- draw_down 3y ago
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standardUser 3y ago
Every time I bother to check out twitter, or mindlessly follow a link there, it's just more of the same toddler-level political trolling. It's like an endless loop of bitching and whining and attacking, just with slightly different topics day to day.
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- pessimizer 3y ago
  There's no way that this isn't due to what you're reading. Almost everybody who does serious politics is on twitter, so if you can't find serious political conversation or though there, you can't find it in actual politics. If Congresspeople are trolling, the problem isn't twitter.
  - rchaud 3y ago
    The problem is precisely Twitter. It's not a dumb pipe, it amplifies messages of politicians, yet doesn't establish the rules of decorum they'd be bound by at work. Those rules exist for a reason.
swader999 3y ago
I must be doing Twitter wrong because it seems like you get very little discussion worth reading and it's too hard to find gems in a thousand reply thread. Many times even my feed has about only two or three posts worth reading. It's about as useful as reading YouTube comments.
- idlewords 3y ago
  Try using the lists feature, one list per topic that interests you. It takes a little gardening but is the highest signal/noise way I've found to use the site.
satvikpendem 3y ago
For those replying to you about Twitter is still politics, that's like going to r/all on reddit and complaining that it's all tired memes. When you look for lowest denominator content, that's what you'll get. The answer lies in curation. Just as one can read only high quality subs like AskHistorians or AskScience on reddit, so too must you curate your Twitter feed with what type of content you're looking for. For example I have lists for ancient art, web development, general programming, and so on. I also block the Trending pages so I almost never see any political stuff on Twitter.

I could say the same about reddit except for the "enjoy" part. I imagine that in a while people will give up on finding alternatives and go back to reddit. Unless reddit keeps doing more stupid stuff it's not going away anytime soon.

brucethemoose2 3y ago
This is the story of Reddit for years. The best case trajectory for Reddit is Facebook's: a highly populated corporate cesspool of low quality leftovers. But that really is the best case, as Reddit doesn't have the "my family and my boss are on Facebook, so I have to be there" effect that Facebook has. It really does rely on some threshold of quality posts.
draw_down 3y ago
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spike021 3y ago

Other than the rate limit issue this past Saturday I haven't really had any problems with it. I still self-curate who I follow with follow lists. I still get to be involved in baseball discussions with friends who have stuck it out there. I'm also able to continue following a large Japanese car community, especially friends I've made when visiting for that hobby. It's still a very useful place to be. You just have to do some work sometimes (follow lists, mute/blocklist words/phrases, etc.) to keep yourself more isolated from things you don't want to see.

hospitalJail 3y ago

If you want to follow domestic US politics/rage bait, I imagine you are having a good time. After the facebook stuff of 2016-2020, I went to twitter trying to avoid ragebait, it was there too. Its not dead, its just not helpful. You get way better stuff from individual subreddits. You get even better stuff reading a non-fiction book. Reddit's app suggests rage-bait which is why its become so bad.

draw_down 3y ago
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standardUser 3y ago

Every time I bother to check out twitter, or mindlessly follow a link there, it's just more of the same toddler-level political trolling. It's like an endless loop of bitching and whining and attacking, just with slightly different topics day to day.

draw_down 3y ago
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pessimizer 3y ago
There's no way that this isn't due to what you're reading. Almost everybody who does serious politics is on twitter, so if you can't find serious political conversation or though there, you can't find it in actual politics. If Congresspeople are trolling, the problem isn't twitter.
- rchaud 3y ago
  The problem is precisely Twitter. It's not a dumb pipe, it amplifies messages of politicians, yet doesn't establish the rules of decorum they'd be bound by at work. Those rules exist for a reason.

swader999 3y ago

I must be doing Twitter wrong because it seems like you get very little discussion worth reading and it's too hard to find gems in a thousand reply thread. Many times even my feed has about only two or three posts worth reading. It's about as useful as reading YouTube comments.

idlewords 3y ago
Try using the lists feature, one list per topic that interests you. It takes a little gardening but is the highest signal/noise way I've found to use the site.

satvikpendem 3y ago

For those replying to you about Twitter is still politics, that's like going to r/all on reddit and complaining that it's all tired memes. When you look for lowest denominator content, that's what you'll get. The answer lies in curation. Just as one can read only high quality subs like AskHistorians or AskScience on reddit, so too must you curate your Twitter feed with what type of content you're looking for. For example I have lists for ancient art, web development, general programming, and so on. I also block the Trending pages so I almost never see any political stuff on Twitter.