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Your experience with social media largely depends on the accounts you surround yourself with. I had an identical experience to yours on Facebook, but my Twitte
by kryptk 5y ago
Your experience with social media largely depends on the accounts you surround yourself with.
I had an identical experience to yours on Facebook, but my Twitter accounts are carefully curated by topic and their timelines are generally excellent.
- undfg 5y agoThis was true before Twitter decided to inject tweets from people you don't follow into your timeline.
- angulardragon03 5y agoTweetdeck on desktop (as well as using private lists on their mobile app) provide excellent solutions to this problem.
- gnoll_of_gozag 5y agoset to latest tweets instead of home and mute these phrases https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac56f9bd36ec https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac5...
- serf 5y agoit's a noble effort, but it misses the point. altruistic view : if you fix their service on your end, it invalidates portions of their feature A/B test -- a weaker signal means that it'll be less likely that they remove whatever feature offended you / made the service worse. pessimistic view : they won't stop being abusive to the user until the abuse shows up on their financial reports. Stop being a patron, they'll be forced to change their ways.
- mingus88 5y agoOP could be referring to the overwhelming impact of Trump on Twitter and his penchant toward bullying and violence. I don't log into Twitter. I don't "surround myself" with any accounts. Yet, the platform is inescapably branded by their inability to police their own content and I could not avoid if even when I tried.