mastodon has several excellent qualities but the best of all that is that tweets are now toots
― mark s, Sunday, 30 October 2022 11:21 (one year ago) link
deactivated mine friday after a couple months of logged-out non-use
― rob, Sunday, 30 October 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
i have all my tweets and retweets automatically deleted weekly and do not care about whatever 'information' I've put on twitter per se. I was concerned this morning when I got an email saying they were not taking any action against an account I reported for an explicitly antisemitic tweet; but when I actually went to twitter I had a notification that said the opposite, and that account was restricted.
Layoffs are supposed to hit Twitter tomorrow or Tuesday, so I think we'll start to see what the implications of this change of ownership are after that. I'm largely a hate-user of twitter anyway so unless many many many people leave I doubt I will. I don't know why it's harder to quit than FB (which I didn't quit, I just stopped using it actively and only go to it maybe once every three days and never spend more than a minute there).
― akm, Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
I honestly find out about news faster from twitter than any other source, so I guess that's why I am reluctant to quit it. If media outlets abandoned it, it would be less interesting to me.
― akm, Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
I don't know why it's harder to quit than FB
I would guess because Twitter can be configured to actually provide real-time information, news and entertainment, whereas FB mostly feels like just people posting vacation travelogues and neighborhood events.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
I quit a month ago, spur of the moment, couldn't stand it any longer. Now it looks like I quit because of this takeover. I want to make it explicit that I quit because of what it is, not who owns it. But if this accelerates the leaving and the seeking of default social media that doesn't alienate the many and lionise the few while turning engagement into zero-sum polar binaries, then good
― imago, Monday, 31 October 2022 11:12 (one year ago) link
xp: guess once twitter burns down most ppl will go on tik tok and destroy the platform for the younger crowd that are on there.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 31 October 2022 11:30 (one year ago) link
guess once twitter burns down most ppl will go on tik tok and destroy the platform for the younger crowd that are on there.
Not a chance. Most people who are comfortable typing out their thoughts are gonna have zero interest in filming themselves talking.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 31 October 2022 12:00 (one year ago) link
Every time I see a Tiktov vdeo it just makes me hate the human face more
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 31 October 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link
I would guess because Twitter can be configured to actually provide real-time information, news and entertainment
There are a couple of single-serving twitter feeds I follow for this reason, but it's easy enough to put them in News Explorer (which can read RSS, twitter, YouTube, and Reddit feeds without actually having to be on those sites)
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 31 October 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
I deleted my twitter!! f u elon
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
i thought i would just bumble along like usual but the past few days i haven't spent more than a few minutes on the site without the image of this asshole invading my psyche, so i deactivated, we'll see if i can make it through a month.
it's really the only news source i had so idk what to do about that, fb is a nightmare for news obviously. i'll be a corpse before i choose to watch cable news. maybe i don't actually need news, what an incredible idea.
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
i wish there was a youtube channel with the teletext local forecasts that used to run on the weather channel in the 90s, maybe set to an endless screensaver of landscape photos, or better yet, photos from "random restaurant", i would watch that for hours on the weekends.
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
no news would probably be a life boon, but fwiw I tend to look at the Guardian and Al Jazeera for "what's going on today" purposes because neither has a paywall (plus some Canada-specific places) and I tend to only be interested in one or two articles max so it's not a big time suck
― rob, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
huh i will take this under consideration ty
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
gonna be fun when random trolls pay $8 to pretend to be public figures and all the people who are supposed to verify them have been fired
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
i thought i would just bumble along like usual but the past few days i haven't spent more than a few minutes on the site without the image of this asshole invading my psyche
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
i wish there was a youtube channel with the teletext local forecasts that used to run on the weather channel in the 90s
Searching "weather channel teletext" brings up hours of these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vyImqK1Z0o
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
oh yeah straight into my veins
maybe quitting twitter will rid my vocabulary of annoying twitterish phrases like "straight into my veins"
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
So did Stephen King tweet how 'bout $8 a month and the dude basically said f'it...that will work?
― earlnash, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
Stephen King's final offer was $0 a month
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
the $8/month was Musk lowballing himself
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
I have to admit to having a morbid curiosity about who some of y'all follow that cause such grief and rage upon opening twitter. I like the fact that it gives me control of exactly this.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
I follow only music/podcasting/history people, block and mute anyone annoying and mute things I don't want to hear about like "elon" and it's actually quite a pleasant place to hang out now.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
yea Twitter can be a fun experience if you follow the right accounts. for me it's mostly sports/music/comedians/random people I think are cool. I think the key is to not follow too many politics people
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it takes constant weeding and careful pruning, but part of why I'm so disappointed with this acquisition is that I'd finally felt like I'd cultivated a feed that wasn't rage inducing.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
not good!
Here's what we know: 1. Trump is dead (died badly) 2. @elonmusk has suppressed this news (or has he?) 3. Donald Trump Junior is now just plain Donald Trump please like and share.— Tim Heidecker: Sole Host of On Cinema (@timheidecker) November 1, 2022
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
yea Twitter can be a fun experience if you follow the right accounts. for me it's mostly sports/music/comedians/random people I think are cool. I think the key is to not follow too many politics people― frogbs, Tuesday, November 1, 2022 4:11 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― frogbs, Tuesday, November 1, 2022 4:11 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Probably true. I think Twitter in the Trump era would've felt different no matter what, but it didn't help that I coped with Trump's 2016 win by following a bunch of political reporters and commenters in the months after the election.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 03:45 (one year ago) link
Another tip for twitter enjoyment is disabling retweets from users you follow (on a user by user basis). I guess it would be cool if you could do a mass disabling, but I don't believe it's an option.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 04:24 (one year ago) link
First time I had to do that was for Ava DuVernay because she would retweet EVERY TIME someone said one kind word about a movie or tv show she made. Cleared up so much space in my timeline.
Now I do it a few times a week.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 04:26 (one year ago) link
The first person I ever muted was a coworker whose feed was 95% retweets of the "spreading awareness"/"signal boosting" variety. Prob wouldn't have minded seeing her own tweets but could not deal with all of that.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
I know you're off twitter now, but you can just disable retweets instead of wholly muting the account.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I did not know that! Good tip.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
just got kicked off
don't know why, they didn't specify
anyway, good
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 04:48 (one year ago) link
Another tip for twitter enjoyment is disabling retweets from users you follow (on a user by user basis). I guess it would be cool if you could do a mass disabling, but I don't believe it's an option.― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, November 2, 2022 12:24 AM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, November 2, 2022 12:24 AM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
you can mute the string "RT @" or you can run this https://turn-off-retweets.jvns.ca/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 05:13 (one year ago) link
Irish politicians will be delighted if everyone quits Twitter. They absolutely hate it. It gives people the ability to counter their lies or mistakes without having to be invited on the TV or radio to debate them in person. If it wasn't for Twitter, we wouldn't have known that our minister for agriculture and a whole load of other grandees attended a big dinner dance at a golf club together at the height of the COVID restrictions, for example. Broadcast media tends to pick up the stories afterwards. I don't want to lose that immediacy or that fact-checking ability.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 10:13 (one year ago) link
surprised to hear so many people position twitter as the only option for news aside from broadcast media. yall realize there are a couple big ones that you are leaving out?
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:02 (one year ago) link
Twitter isn't itself a news source, but it's a very good distributor of news. News can travel quickly through retweets, and users encounter it passively (often with useful context, or at least salience, already attached to it). Without Twitter, I spend more time browsing the NYT homepage and clicking on the odd headline that interests me, but it's not the same, for better or worse.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:11 (one year ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:14 (one year ago) link
It does get old, when everyone retweets the same thing but yeah exactly
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:15 (one year ago) link
Between having no cable and shitty websites and whatnot, I actually do find a lot of news relatively hard to access. We do subscribe to the Washington Post, and even that one is often broken in Chrome and frequently won't let me stay signed in and read stories (for some reason). So yeah, real-time news, especially breaking news, often gets to me faster via Twitter than it does via the actual news sources, and who I follow (and/or trust) helps control what news or kind of news reaches me first. Even a relatively slick operation like NPR often lags on important (to me) news by several hours, if not days.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:21 (one year ago) link
do we have an alternate social media thread? I'm curious if anyone on ilx has experience with Mastodon
― rob, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:27 (one year ago) link
Twitter is a really good place for NBA news and highlights
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:31 (one year ago) link
also learning about stuff from multiple viewpoints in the same "timeline" i.e. Ferguson was really useful to get the "same" news from different angles
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
Mastodon suuuuucks. It's not centralized, so it's really hard to find other people; everyone basically has their own little Mastodon fiefdom. I've signed up for counter.social, but that one seems really annoying too. I doubt I'll ever use it.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:35 (one year ago) link
for what it's worth, at least a couple of the people I followed on Twitter that have stopped have continued to post the same stuff on Instagram.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
hard to imagine searching Insta for breaking news lolTwitter really is the best for finding out about something in real time imo
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
xpyeah every time I look into Mastodon I just get confused by the baroque descriptions of how it works and give up, oh well
― rob, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link
what if everyone on twitter switched to ilx
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
the everything app
― rob, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:45 (one year ago) link