Twitter C/D

I use FB occasionally, but I game it. I try to cheat the algorithms by not liking anything and not following anyone or anything, so if distant relatives want to tell me someone's ill or has died they can, and if I want to see what a friend's up to I put their name into Search.

Other than that, I use WhatsApp but only with friends. I don't follow any groups with people in them I don't know. And that's it.

This feels different from the careful curation of Twitter someone mentioned above in that you don't need to do curation. It was more "(un)set it and forget it"

i go on twitter to see the bad stuff, amongst other reasons

The 'rewards' are interesting takes by people who don't normally have a voice. And yeah you see a reality, a certain insight on people's lives, whether bad or good. I know I'll miss it.

But saying twitter has bought misery on lots of ppl when not many ppl actually tweet and *looks at what actually immiserates people* is just wrong.

new tab alert

Lol I guess I got an early rollout? Farewell verified tab, I will never think of you again pic.twitter.com/aep3Gpw02I

— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) November 4, 2022

ppl who don't want to get angry at their feeds at all use instagram I believe but boy are things boring on there

I get most of my news from Twitter tbh, including labor stuff, author stuff, very-online-personality stuff, academics who are also public figures stuff, following electeds that I like, hyper-local politics stuff...there's no other place where all of those things are accessible.

otm re IG, reels made it unusable.

xp to gyac
someone on ilx recently shared the tip that if you tap the Instagram logo and then pick "Following" you only see posts from people you follow (well, plus ads I think). You have to do it every time, but it might be worth it if you only look once a day

yeah i get all my news via twitter great source for links

Such a shame Ed Lee isn't around to see this. Yup.

I did see that tip rob, and I have found it useful, but I guess the issue is not that you can change it, but, like so many things, that you keep needing to put stuff back that was never broken in the first place.

yeah i get all my news via twitter great source for links

― lag∞n, Friday, November 4, 2022 11:48 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is the only good feature of twitter blue!

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue-features#top-articles

yeah ive heard other people say thats good too

that's what nuzzle used to do iirc

yeah they bought nuzzle and turned it into that iirc

ah i see there are a few replacements now

https://murmel.social

https://www.markpack.org.uk/168092/tweetshelf-a-great-tool-for-making-the-most-of-twitter/

insta switched to an awful side-menu view in my browser a few days ago. there is literally a frame with a scroll bar when i look at my notifications. also i can't see the 'following' option when i click the logo anymore.

i followed a bunch of random gays and drag queens because i do my dj promotion on insta. sounds fun in theory but boy does my timeline get monotonous.

there's always matrix!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v1HKXYQbfU

what if were all already in the matrix

ah i see there are a few replacements now

https://murmel.social

https://www.markpack.org.uk/168092/tweetshelf-a-great-tool-for-making-the-most-of-twitter/

― Tracer Hand, Friday, November 4, 2022 11:56 AM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ooh, thanks for this. I was a devoted Nuzzel user and was sad when it shut down and was incorporated into Twitter Blue.

what the everloving fuck is the Verified tab? blue checkmark folks complaining about shit the rabble has never even heard of is some top tier schadenfreude

lol It's obviously a tab that screens out tweets by the unwashed masses

to replace twitter-as-links-service i’m just going back to rss feeds of sites i like again, the way forward is backward

I was looking at the Twitter Blue features the other day and it's funny but half of the features are just.. there.. if you use a third-party client and not the official Twitter one (or the website)

I hope Elon doesn't remember that third-party clients exist

xp the death of Google Reader was the real apocalypse all along imo

i instituted a 5 minutes a day limit on twitter a few months ago, it's been wonderful! it's only once you're off of it that you realize how inane 99% of it is, the hell site

Yeah, I got back on yesterday for the first time in weeks just to enjoy watching it implode and ended up spending half an hour hate-reading people defending Kyrie Irving

what the everloving fuck is the Verified tab? blue checkmark folks complaining about shit the rabble has never even heard of is some top tier schadenfreude

― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, November 4, 2022 1:12 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

If you have a verified account, it's a tab that shows only mentions by other verified accounts. (I know this because I once ran a brand account for work.)

Twitter taught me that there is a person named Kyrie Irving yesterday, and I'm not sure I needed to know that

Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company.

I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia,

— Shannon Raj Singh (@ShannonRSingh) November 4, 2022

Yeah, I got back on yesterday for the first time in weeks just to enjoy watching it implode and ended up spending half an hour hate-reading people defending Kyrie Irving

― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, November 4, 2022 3:00 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

One reason I finally deleted was forcing myself to face how much time I was spending reading replies from UK-based terf nightmare freaks. I don't know anyone in real life who would express those views and had to recognize that "being aware" of this shit isn't any kind of actual politics

Never read the comments section… but it’s all comments section.

LOL at twitter user @MattHelgeson trying to get banned. reminds me of the time i was banned from AOL for copying Steve Case's profile as my own

LMAO ums, that is some amazing work

xp the death of Google Reader was the real apocalypse all along imo

― mh, Friday, November 4, 2022 2:25 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

The death of Google Reader is what prompted me to create my twitter account, which I originally just used as a news aggregation service (I have yet to tweet, I guess I should get around to that before it's too late). I really should go back to rss feeds, it was a much healthier way to get my news.

i created a twitter account purely to talk to rappers, no other reason

I tried to use a Google Reader replacement for a while, but never stuck for some reason.

around the time I'd built enough of a network of people who were sharing articles on google reader and commenting with some good interaction, they killed it

people building a community and interacting by talking about links? who would want that?

Another reason I won't leave this app. pic.twitter.com/y8gGWt3P4A

— Ashley Winter MD || Urologist (@AshleyGWinter) November 4, 2022

ok lol

maybe I can subscribe to a "best of twitter" substack, I do miss the rare good jokes

1/ There is some pretty substantial context about Twitter's 2023 revenue and advertisers that I think partly help explains why Musk is really losing it...

And it involves upfront ad sales. Let me explain...

— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) November 5, 2022

Nice threads about what was good about twitter and why the likes of tik tok won't work.

What I like(d) about Twitter, and what I’ll look for from whatever comes next:

I joined Twitter in 08 or 09. The thing that mattered in those early days was that ties were unidirectional (following), not bidirectional (friending).

(1/x)

— dave karpf (@davekarpf) November 5, 2022

Won't quite work for me though I will give it a go at some point.

Chuck Tingle to the rescue

https://www.twiddor.com/

Seems bad

OK, this is worrying ... decided to download my Twitter archive as there are several scholarly points I have bookmarked over the years. Used to be a case you just entered your password ... not any more ... they want a scan of either my driving licence or passport ... As if ...

— Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy (@dramdarcy) November 5, 2022

I downloaded my archive last week and have tweeted less than a dozen times since. I don't really give a fuck about my old tweets, which are preserved in a gigantic javascript file, though. I'll probably just toss it.

Downloaded mine last weekend as well. Takes up a small space on my hard drive -- could probably back it up elsewhere too, so I'll likely do that. It may not be of specific use but good to have it regardless.

Grimes NEVER said I had a "weird dick" and "smelled like nachos" and if you repost this you will be arrested

— Elon Musk (@jephjacques) November 5, 2022

caek I just really need to know that you didn’t refer to yourself as a “tweep” ever