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Microblogging has always felt so strange to me, I could never get into it. Why would I want to hear dozens of different short-form opinions from people? Maybe i
by KyleTheDev 25d ago
Microblogging has always felt so strange to me, I could never get into it. Why would I want to hear dozens of different short-form opinions from people? Maybe it's the 'tism, but that sounds so anxiety inducing & overwhelming.
- GuinansEyebrows 25d agopolitics and hack takes abound, but there were some legitimately funny people on twitter (some of whom've migrated to other platforms). mostly bad, though.
- mingus88 25d agoTwitter was best when I followed comedians, record labels and venues. (And I should note I left in 2017 when even the funny people couldn’t get a grip on what was happening online) This is what short form posting was meant for. Jokes and quips from witty people and announcements for things I care about. That Twitter became a primary source of news for anyone is a major indicator of the decline of civilization
- darksim905 25d agoWhen your follower/following count is small and you're getting to know people and build a community of people you otherwise wouldn't meet IRL, it can be a great thing. When you start getting inundated with too much information when you have 10K + followers, it can be overwhelming and you lose the signal within the noise and find that it may start affecting other parts of life. I suppose each person is different, but that burned me out and made me uninterested and I burned it all down. I found I was losing sleep checking my phone and getting unusually addicted to stupid things.