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!
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― 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
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― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:51 (one year ago) link
i have soft-quit twitter (ie not deleted my account but logged out of it everywhere and not let myself log back in) several times and it is always a good move. i would be on twitter all day during work and then by the end of the day i would feel so anxious and depressed. i don't even hate-follow awful people but it's still constantly being bombarded with the worst news from everywhere in the world. after a while i tell myself i can manage it, i won't go on twitter if i'm feeling vulnerable that day but otherwise it's ok, but i still end up at that point where i feel so sad and terrible by the end of the day. so i should probably just delete my account. the only problem is the rest of the internet feels boring in comparison, there's nowhere else that is constantly generating so much new content and information (a lot of which is good and interesting and funny) so quickly.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
time for ilx recruitment drive
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
Pretty much mute any current affairs on Twitter. The world ain’t so great. Mainly stay for music polls, and stuff like that
― jel--, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
mastodon is quite slow right now, presumbly bcz there's a surge of ppl joining or rejoining
decentralisation causes one single hiccup -- apparently enough to be offputting to many -- which is that right at the start you have to pick an "instance" to join up. like the gate you go through in. there's an element of luck here (for practical purposes and for accessing the main flow and building a timeline it doesn't matter which one you're in; but some are very robust and others are flaky and if you don't have ppl advising you there's no way of knowing which in advance; the populous ones are likely to stick around but i think also more likely get sluggish; the tiny ones in some weird language may be totally fine or totally flaky, esp.if you don't speak the language) (i think there are some specialist ones with limited access so best avoid them also) but it's not that hard to switch once you're in and know yr way round a bit better
timelines: exactly as with twitter, you track the world via yr own curated timeline -- so you have to find yr faves and follow them (with certain exceptions it doesn't matter if they're in a different instance); in addition (twitter doesn't have this) you can track the world via a local timeline (everything else posted in yr instance whether or not you follow them) and a federated timeline (literally everything else posted by anyone whether or not you follow them); the second moves very fast and is in many languages -- mainly japanese last time i was using mastodon a lot -- and generally incomprehensible, unless u read japanese i guess.
the main drawback of joining is that (like any new socmed platform) you will have to rebuild yr network (which takes time) and some ppl won't be there at all! the main drawback of rejoining is that most of the ppl i enjoyed reading were gathered round the helldude when he was banned from twitter a few years back and that little community went dark when he started a new twitter acount
is it daunting? maybe! but i am older than you (most likely) and i puzzled it out quick enuf so stop yr blubberin
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
i am @dubdob✧✧✧@masto✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧
tweets are toots!
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
lol
at dubdobdee at mastodon dot social
agreed with NA, I follow mostly good people but Twitter still gives me a lot of anxiety and dread. a lot of leftist accounts really do seem to think everything is the end of the world and sometimes that attitude can just ruin your whole day. I think that as human beings we were not really meant to have the entire weight of the world on our shoulders especially when we do not have any power.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
Can’t even work out the server thing on Mastodon and then when I got somewhere it wouldn’t accept my password :(
I’ll maybe try again
Or just check back in a decade or so
― jel--, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
xphaha fair enough and thank you for elaborating
tbh maybe it's less about incomprehension and more a more basic uncertainty about its value & appeal. i.e., "some are very robust and others are flaky and if you don't have ppl advising you there's no way of knowing which in advance" is more or less where I keep giving up. how did you pick an instance to start with? (ok I think I figured that out in the xpost of your id)
― rob, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
i gave it deep thought as you can see
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
I think the first thing I can across was like a furries server or something
― jel--, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
unpossible
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
I’m going to try again on the big computer.
― jel--, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
"mastodon is quite slow right now, presumbly bcz there's a surge of ppl joining or rejoining"
Yup, keeps timing out for me.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
yeah eugen gargron sez he's awaiting delivery of a powerful new server
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
Good to know steps are being taken.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
do we need an ilx-centric mastodon server or smth
― mh, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
yes get this sorted poster mh
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
i would rather use ilx
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
but tweets are now toots!
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
i will give mastodon a try if it survives the next few weeks lol.
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
I'm reading up on how it works. Seems like it'd work well with a number of small- or mid-sized servers, and the amount of traffic you'll get is completely dependent on what users on your server subscribe to. You can have the front page be a variation of the classic firehose ofall the toots (lol) from your server, plus those from all accounts that the users on your server subscribe to.
I think it'd scale super well with a myriad of small to mid sized servers with the most popular users not all being on the same ones. Obviously this is the opposite of what's happening.
― mh, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
It felt like I was picking the geocity I wanted to live in all over again. I’ll never use this thing.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link