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Look. I don’t know how else to say this but just make a gosh darn account. Twitter is good. IF you control your follows. Don’t follow more than 100 people. If

Look. I don’t know how else to say this but just make a gosh darn account. Twitter is good. IF you control your follows. Don’t follow more than 100 people. If someone pisses you off multiple times, unfollow. If you don’t want ads, you have to pay. But this keeps the lean twitter org afloat. The ads are not intrusive If you pay you get no ads. All that said Twitter has gone off recently for me, the content not as good but I bet it’s because I broke my ‘never follow more than 100’ people rule and I get low quality tweets more often. I’ve also been clicking on dumber posts so it shows me more dumb stuff… I appreciate the Algo being rough in a way - it forces personal curation by myself JUST MAKE AN ACCOUNT

throwaway937372 3y ago
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Dalewyn 3y ago
Can corroborate; made an account some time to ago to make following the small handful of illustrators, Youtubers, and games' devs I'm interested in easier. I get exactly what I want now, nothing more. Couple that with Musk nuking most if not all the behind-the-curtains political manipulations, and Mysterious Twitter X has been wonderful.
toastercat 3y ago
Nice try, Elon. But no, Twitter is not good, even if you control your follows, although it becomes much more bearable if you NEVER look at the "For You" tab (which Twitter defaults to everytime). Even then, doesn't matter who you follow, because no matter how cool you think the people you follow are, they don't have the same judge of character and will retweet trash that ends up in your timeline. So then it's a game of whack-a-mole of constantly muting the shit that the people you follow retweet. Or they inevitably get involved in a toxic argument and make all their followers witness to it. It has been this way since before Elon, in my experience. So I propose a different solution: JUST DON'T USE TWITTER.

throwaway937372 3y ago

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Dalewyn 3y ago

Can corroborate; made an account some time to ago to make following the small handful of illustrators, Youtubers, and games' devs I'm interested in easier. I get exactly what I want now, nothing more. Couple that with Musk nuking most if not all the behind-the-curtains political manipulations, and Mysterious Twitter X has been wonderful.

toastercat 3y ago

Nice try, Elon. But no, Twitter is not good, even if you control your follows, although it becomes much more bearable if you NEVER look at the "For You" tab (which Twitter defaults to everytime). Even then, doesn't matter who you follow, because no matter how cool you think the people you follow are, they don't have the same judge of character and will retweet trash that ends up in your timeline. So then it's a game of whack-a-mole of constantly muting the shit that the people you follow retweet. Or they inevitably get involved in a toxic argument and make all their followers witness to it. It has been this way since before Elon, in my experience. So I propose a different solution: JUST DON'T USE TWITTER.