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Why are you trying to use it as a social networking tool?
by andreygrehov 2y ago
Why are you trying to use it as a social networking tool?
- johnnyanmac 2y agoThat's the neat part, I don't. I only made an account after years of being broken down by trying to get past their "make an account" wall when I just followed some random link from HN or Reddit. I was fine just browsing tweets in a news when linked, but they clearly want to try and force me into their, uhh, "news network"? I never used any of the features; no comments, follows, likes, etc. But others do and that's the sad part. I felt the same about Google+ dying to facebook; the inferior technology wins and it works against all the ways I want to communicate with others. So I gave up; I'm using Bluesky as a fresh start to be able to connect to future people I couldn't years ago that I met at conferences. But had nothing else to share other than a Twitter. While I think it's horribly inefficient, it's even less respectful of me to ask them to take the time to make a social media account they don't have. That's all this is about for me. Meeting people at their level instead of trying to be this hipster trying to shill for this "cool misunderstood platform that's way better". I'll still use my hipster spaces, of course. But I can manage multiple feeds just fine.