This is good advice. Especially the parts about filtering the timeline and your engagement to get what you like out of twitter. Meta commentary: Twitter mostly

This is good advice. Especially the parts about filtering the timeline and your engagement to get what you like out of twitter. Meta commentary: Twitter mostly serves the same function and has communities around most of the same subjects it always has. I tried the fediverse and bluesky and they resembled the intellectually incurious bubbles I would imagine gab and truthsocial are like, but from the other side of the political sphere. In Bluesky communities in particular I saw a lot of open harassment across sites and into the physical realm very highly promoted. Worse yet, none of these facilitate the kind of personal interactions with prominent figures in tech/my-favorite-hobby/public life. I haven't tried and will not be trying threads, so I can't comment there. Otherwise, all these alternatives are just... boring, I suppose? Overly consumed by politics? Echochambers? It just feels like reddit, in that there's a homogeneous Borg spending its time meta-commenting on things happening on twitter or tiktok. Twitter's pretty good at showing you what you engage in. So if you find yourself surrounded by content you hate, follow the advice in the link (ignore and aggressively mute content you don't like - participate in ways promote content you do like).