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For me, I follow ~2.5k accounts. It's a nice mix of artists, frontend software devs, game devs, and comedy accounts that I've built up over 15 years. I have ye
by TranquilMarmot 3y ago
For me, I follow ~2.5k accounts. It's a nice mix of artists, frontend software devs, game devs, and comedy accounts that I've built up over 15 years.
I have yet to find another social media site that brings all of that together in a nice, "streaming" kind of way. Reddit (where I'm subscribed to ~1k subreddits) is _almost_ as good but visiting Reddit is only really interesting once or twice a day because of the nature of their algorithm. TikTok is honestly pretty close to having a mix of art and programming, but the video format isn't as information dense as text.
Twitter keeps me coming back somehow.
- GuB-42 3y agoSince you follow so many accounts, did you notice some of them closing or turning inactive?
- TranquilMarmot 3y agoNot really, but it seems like Twitter's recommendation engine tends to skew to a few hundred accounts/topics that I interact with the most. If something like 10-15% of accounts I follow just stopped posting, I wouldn't even notice (in fact, that might be the case!). It doesn't seem any less active than it did before Musk took over. The big change since he took over is that now I have to block a dozen or so people every day who are just on the opposite end of who I would ever want to interact with. Not just politically, but people actively seeking to be harmful to others in one way or another. Before that, I went 14 years of using Twitter daily and had only blocked a few spam accounts.