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I was on Twitter briefly despite knowing better. It was great to connect with fellow programmers doing creative things, and having blocked the sidebar and all p
by Rendello 2y ago
I was on Twitter briefly despite knowing better. It was great to connect with fellow programmers doing creative things, and having blocked the sidebar and all political hashtags, it was a net positive for a while. Ultimately though, it incentivizes people to post every "clever" thought that pops into their brains, and after posting hundreds of your own clever thoughts and reading tens of thousands of other people's, it instills in one the urge to live alone in the mountains under a vow of silence.
Though… it occurs to me that my cursed "cleverness" may have followed me to HN.
- brailsafe 2y agoYa, I followed a similar path; it quickly became something habitual, and I realized that I couldn't avoid the preachy political crap from even people I would otherwise probably align with. It felt like I was chronically checking it, and nearly always being bombarded with messaging about what I was supposed to be mad about that day, whereas if I'd not been on the platform I probably wouldn't have regularly fluctuation intense emotions about irrelevant issues. HN is kind of a bad habit, but it's just a forum to me, I don't follow people, people aren't following me, I don't need to be signup up in order to find out what's going on in municipal government, it's just discourse about common interests if that's what I want. I can get a weekly digest and I know that's quite enough if that's the relationship I want to have with it, and everyone sees the same content.
- Rendello 2y agoI agree, that's how I feel exactly about both forums. My cleverness-on-HN remark was auto-referring to my cheeky vow-of-silence comment, which I felt proud of while writing and then a little stupid about while posting ;)