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I still use and barely see any outrage on it. I am just selective with who I follow and stay in the feed where I mostly see tweets of who I follow. I agree wit

by soneca 3y ago

I still use and barely see any outrage on it. I am just selective with who I follow and stay in the feed where I mostly see tweets of who I follow. I agree with GP, it’s very easy to stay out of outrage sight.

blitzar 3y ago
Its even easier when you only get to see a few tweets a day.
isykt 3y ago
In order to do this, you must assiduously avoid mainstream news as well. I think that’s the point where the two sides of this debate are talking past each other. There is the Twitter you see on Twitter (your customized feed) but there’s also the That that is reported on in the news, screencapped on Reddit, shared on WhatsApp and iMessage, etc. If the sense memory of those non-platform Twitter interactions is stronger than the on-platform ones, especially when it comes to negative senses like hate, it tarnishes the users’ experience with it.
- soneca 3y ago
  That’s right. I avoid mainstream news completely (everywhere, not just on Twitter) for several years now
  - lnxg33k1 3y ago
    So you’re not having the twitter experience, you’re living in a twitter ghetto away from the public?
    - soneca 3y ago
      What? No, I follow people tweeting in public. I almost never tweet, but when I do it’s public as well. To be honest I don’t know what you meant on your comment. Was it a mix of tautology with true Scotsman? You have to follow outraged people to say you are properly on Twitter thus if you are properly on Twitter the outrage is unavoidable?
      - oblio 3y ago
        His point is that you are not the average Twitter user. You're an ivory tower inhabitant of Twitter :-)
        soneca 3y ago
        A village is an analogy that I like more. And there are a lot of those villages around Twitter
        oblio 3y ago
        True, but at least the public perception is that the carefully curated non hate, non garbage consuming Twitter user is a person living comparatively in a very small village. Most people live in a huge metropolis of suffering. BTW, there are many UX studies showing people don't change defaults. What Twitter recommends to them is what they read.

by soneca 3y ago

blitzar 3y ago

Its even easier when you only get to see a few tweets a day.

isykt 3y ago

In order to do this, you must assiduously avoid mainstream news as well. I think that’s the point where the two sides of this debate are talking past each other. There is the Twitter you see on Twitter (your customized feed) but there’s also the That that is reported on in the news, screencapped on Reddit, shared on WhatsApp and iMessage, etc. If the sense memory of those non-platform Twitter interactions is stronger than the on-platform ones, especially when it comes to negative senses like hate, it tarnishes the users’ experience with it.

soneca 3y ago
That’s right. I avoid mainstream news completely (everywhere, not just on Twitter) for several years now
- lnxg33k1 3y ago
  So you’re not having the twitter experience, you’re living in a twitter ghetto away from the public?
  - soneca 3y ago
    What? No, I follow people tweeting in public. I almost never tweet, but when I do it’s public as well. To be honest I don’t know what you meant on your comment. Was it a mix of tautology with true Scotsman? You have to follow outraged people to say you are properly on Twitter thus if you are properly on Twitter the outrage is unavoidable?
    - oblio 3y ago
      His point is that you are not the average Twitter user. You're an ivory tower inhabitant of Twitter :-)
      - soneca 3y ago
        A village is an analogy that I like more. And there are a lot of those villages around Twitter
        oblio 3y ago
        True, but at least the public perception is that the carefully curated non hate, non garbage consuming Twitter user is a person living comparatively in a very small village. Most people live in a huge metropolis of suffering. BTW, there are many UX studies showing people don't change defaults. What Twitter recommends to them is what they read.