have you quit twitter yet?

I know different people like different things, but I can fathom looking at Twitter in anything other than reverse chronological order.

Yeah, Twitter is chaotic enough without an algorithm feed.

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Overview
Remove algorithmic content from Twitter, hide news & trends, control which shared tweets appear on your timeline, and improve the UI
Remove algorithmic content:

– Keeps you on the Latest Tweets (chronological) timeline, automatically switching you back if Twitter tries to move you to the "Home" (algorithmic) timeline
– Hides the new timeline tabs if you have them
– Hide "Who to follow", "Follow some Topics" etc. in the timeline
– Hide "What's happening", "Topics to follow" etc. in the sidebar
– Hide "More Tweets" when linked to a tweet
– Hide algorithmic tweets based on likes, replies, lists, and suggested topics in the "Home" timeline, if you use it
– Hide Explore page contents

Control which tweets shared by people you follow appear on your timeline:

– Move Retweets to a separate timeline (default setting), or hide them entirely
– Move Quote Tweets and replies to them to a separate timeline, or hide them entirely (off by default)
– Hide tweets quoting accounts you've blocked or muted
– Mute quoting of specific tweets - adds a "Mute this conversation" menu item to Quote Tweets in the timeline

Chrome version. Firefox version.

Today is my 10-year Twitter anniversary. I haven't tweeted in over three weeks, which is surely the longest such period during the past decade. I've looked at tweets when they've been posted elsewhere, and I've also occasionally gone in and searched for stuff. I'll go so far as reading replies to whatever I'm clicking on. But what I haven't done is scroll through my own feed.

As I expected, I've been reading ILX more during the times when I otherwise would've been scrolling Twitter, which doesn't necessarily solve the basic compulsive tendency, but it feels less addictive. I still feel cut off from the discourse, but might be coming to terms with that, as the FOMO wears off and it becomes out of sight, out of mind. ✌️

I changed a couple of settings, and already my twitter experience (as such) is radically different. Suddenly it's all just ... settled down. I don't follow many people anyway, but now there's not nearly as much (or really any) garbage jumping to the front of the queue. It's just boring ol' posts from people every few minutes, which, yeah, really tramps down that dopamine hit and seems much less likely to get my outrage machine running, both good things.

I follow 1,300 people or so, and it's a fairly steady stream most of the time. Can't imagine what it's like for the psychopaths who follow like 30,000.

1,300 accounts, I mean (not all of them individual people)

lol I follow ... 82?

I appear to be following 2800 people, which is definitely insane, and mainly due to being polite.

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Thank you so much for this. That new Related Tweets thing was driving me up the wall.

i follow 120 people and have made 1,100 tweets in 14 years. maybe i am not even using twitter in the first place, statistically

i've made 21,422 ilx posts in roughly the same time period, and i think there's a lot more than 120 regulars here

I use Twitter to talk to my irl friends as well as Twitter pals. And since my brother died, it's become a real lifeline for keeping in touch with his friends in the very lowest-key way possible. Plus jokes.

I wonder if people use Slack for liek small freinds groups

My husband and I use it to talk to each other. Neither of us uses it in a work context, so it's perfect.

get the impression most small groups are on whatsapp or signal (or local equivalents, e.g. fb messenger, kakaotalk, etc.). slack and discord works too, but they're a bit computery for a lot of people.

I wonder if people use Slack for liek small freinds groups

― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, September 7, 2022 3:25 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ever wonder what happened to the Chicago threads?

I haven't followed many more than 1000 accounts at a time on twitter, but it's fun following and unfollowing different accounts to change things up. I like that all of it is very much in public

slack sounds like some kind of gossipy nextdoor thing to me. I'm probably wrong in thinking that, but it doesn't seem appealing at all

I heard that Slack is great for expressing opinions about message board posters!

I think most people use it for work.

I've been doxxed once for a review, and I've seen grisly shit, but not once have I thought about quitting Twitter. Maybe I've screened it too well. I gotta click on Nazi shit to get knots in my stomach.

I will always follow you Alfred

love you

slack sounds like some kind of gossipy nextdoor thing to me. I'm probably wrong in thinking that, but it doesn't seem appealing at all

not really. more like private IRC servers.

I tried joining a Discord group (board? community? I don’t fucking know) and hated everything about it instantly. Twitter is definitely my favorite social platform. I really need to wipe my Facebook account, though. That is a true hell site at this point. It’s got so many promoted posts that it’s like trying to communicate with people by shouting at them from the opposite end of a mall.

I have a few middle-aged friends on Marco Polo and they recently invited me to try it out. Instant revulsion. I guess it’s kind of a private group-based TikTok?

get the impression most small groups are on whatsapp or signal
The reason we use Slack as a private messaging service is because it has a different alert sound, so we always know to check it asap. If WhatsApp let you set different alert sounds for different groups, we would probably just use that. (Maybe it does now? I haven't checked in a while.) We used to use a couples app called Avocado, which was great. You could store lists in it and you always knew for sure who the other person was. But most couples apps are too cutesy. "Send your babe a heart sticker!" Yeah, no. I just want to remind him to get paracetamol on his way home.

I heard that Slack is great for expressing opinions about message board posters!

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 8 September 2022 bookmarkflaglink

That's right.

the confusion is entertaining me because I remember the mid 90s when a few seasoned irc users would grouse about instant messaging apps

"why would I need icq/aim/etc when I can just send a private message on irc?"

and now most workplaces have rotated all the way through only having email -> private message apps -> teams/slack/etc and we've gone full circle back to irc

The Queen is about to die you can't quit now

elon hasn't bought it yet, deal will close in 3-6 months. so no point quitting now

― flopson, Wednesday, April 27, 2022 3:20 AM (six months ago)

point: flopson

People are going to be allowed to send death threats to one another.

Why quit now?

Thank my zonxu stars for ile

I deactivated last night. If you don't reactivate in 30 days, then they let you consider it deleted (although info from it may still be around). Hopefully, even if he does fire 3/4 of employees, as was
recently reported intention, hackers won't get to little old me before then.

I never, in eight years of posting, had any trolls, any other kind of problem. It was fun.

i'm not going to quit

I basically treat twitter as a little music outpost where I see posts from a relatively small number of people, dm tracks to dj & producer friends, and only about 20 people ever seem to see what I tweet. I try to ignore the rest of it (latest tweets mode is helping hugely with that!). So I'll stay on until it becomes a wholly unenjoyable experience.

dow -- why have you quit if you had no problems?

Funnily enough I am messing with my settings for the first after being on it for five years.

Twitter has built a huge list of interests, which I want to clear. I'm having to until boxes lol

*untick

I actually was required to get a Twitter account for a class I'm taking but I had on already - Like all social networks it is only as enjoyable as the people who yo uare networked to on it and most people I know do not use it so its like a small exclusive club for me

Twitter is my preferred avenue for receiving promotion from musicians, movie-makers, comic book creators, etc, as well as some small-to-mid-sized scientific accounts, and then just like random "here's a cute picture of a possum!" type stuff. I don't see a lot of negativity in my feed. When I do, I unfollow. I don't see any point in quitting.

― peace, man, Tuesday, April 26, 2022 1:47 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I haven't seen too much talk in my feed about leaving. I'm definitely not happy about Musk owning it though, or the specter of Trump's return. My revulsion at Musk has only increased over the past 6 months. Ultimately, all of the accounts I follow are for idle entertainment and I'm more amenable to deleting mine, although I might have to figure out where else some of the smaller accounts I follow reside on the internet.

Will more people read Trump's statements if they are on tWITTEr? I mean people who want to read them no where to find then now right?

unequivocally yes people will read Trump's tweets, ime it's not really about wanting to find them or not

I signed out a couple months ago to focus on a deadline and haven't really missed it much tbh. I definitely won't even think of signing back in until the US elections are past

I mean whenever he posts something truly insane on Truth Social it winds up all over Twitter anyway

not planning to leave, but will re-evaluate if it turns into an utter dumpster fire

"Before Mr Musk’s takeover the company was owned largely by institutional investors, with the Vanguard Group the biggest stakeholder at 10.3 per cent. Mr Musk himself held a 9.2 per cent stake."

Not sure this was any preferable to Musk Ox

they own about 10% of everything