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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
by 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 agoThat’s right. I avoid mainstream news completely (everywhere, not just on Twitter) for several years now
- lnxg33k1 3y agoSo you’re not having the twitter experience, you’re living in a twitter ghetto away from the public?
- soneca 3y agoWhat? 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 agoHis point is that you are not the average Twitter user. You're an ivory tower inhabitant of Twitter :-)
- soneca 3y agoA village is an analogy that I like more. And there are a lot of those villages around Twitter
- oblio 3y agoTrue, 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.