well that kind of breaks the entire utility of the platform, doesn't it? the thing that was nice about twitter way back when was the fact that it felt very comm

well that kind of breaks the entire utility of the platform, doesn't it? the thing that was nice about twitter way back when was the fact that it felt very community-focused and the people who were most actively involved generally had feeds that largely represented their interests. it wasn't hard to stay away from the garbage, and what you saw felt more intuitively targeted towards your interests. i used it to keep up with friends and leaders in fields i found interesting and found it a lot more intuitive and engaging than other platforms at the time. no doubt we're a decade or more past peak twitter, but it seems like the algorithm has entirely flipped and is designed explicitly to surface as much lowest-common-denominator content as possible, drowning out anything targeted that you're actually interested in. i'll never say it was particularly wonderful, but it was better than it is now.