[ SECRET POST #4161 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4161 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Jesus

[(Anonymous)]

Twitter experiences massively improve if you're aggressive in controlling what you see, IMO. It's really necessary to use the tools they give you to control your timeline - really don't be afraid to mute people, block people, turn off peoples' retweets. Particularly watch out for people who surface bad content to argue with or refute it - quote-RTing something to mock it still puts the thing on the timeline.

The reality is mostly that... this is who people are, this is what they do - whether it's serious or unserious, it kind of comes down to the same thing. Some people are just fucking wild, or stupid, or have no impulse control, or are flagrant dickheads. The Internet provides a space where it's really easy to express that with relatively little repercussion - in fact, the structure of Twitter means that acting like a dickhead often pays dividends in terms of attention.

The only thing you can really do is reduce the time that you spend looking at and thinking about it. Or you could not use Twitter, I guess, but IMHO the positive of the site make it worth using.

Re: Jesus

[thewakokid]

I'm really tying not to echo chamber myself. I wouldn't refuse to listen to these people in real life, so no matter how vile I find their opinions I gotta hear them out.
I've been on twitter for about two weeks now, and I've followed a fair number pof diverging people, and I've unfollowed only one person who said that she wants straight white cishet men to unfollowing her. Fair enough. Everyone else I gotta at least give a listen to.

"listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story."
~ Max Ehrmann

The mild depression that comes from listening to these people... Well, I am aware I am doing this to myself.

Re: Jesus

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm not even really talking about intellectual point of view, and I wouldn't necessarily encourage echo chambering. I'm thinking of it more in terms of like... signal-to-noise ratio.

Like, for any shade of political opinion, there are people who are somewhat reasonable and smart, and then there are a bunch of fuckers who post intentionally inflammatory shit because they're stupid dickheads. And the intentionally inflammatory shit mostly isn't that interesting - it all kind of works the same. It is stupid and aggravating.

So the goal is to maximize the amount of time you spend looking at good stuff, of whatever political persuasion it may be, and prune the shit off as much as possible.

Re: Jesus

[thewakokid]

Makes sense. I just don't like the idea of saying "RIght, you don't get to speak to me any more" or "Right, I'm nor listening to you any more". I feel like I'm losing more out of that deal than they are. Even if they are being dickbags.