Twitter is such a blessing/curse. There’s some great content on there and it’s a good way to quickly digest the news. However, there is SO much trash on there.
It’s probably best to avoid reading most replies. For example, Ben Norton gets tons of braindead trolls.
I ended up deleting my personal account and making a private account that I use just to follow people. I don’t interact with anyone on there AT ALL and my life has been much better.
Definitely agree about only following a small number of high quality accounts. On my old account I ended up following a bunch of small time ML accounts. Most of them seemed nice but they would spend most of their time arguing/QT’ing libs and fascists. I don’t think this is a productive way to spend time.
I’ve been meaning to just link mastodon to the accounts I follow but I’ve been lazy.
I mean I love seeing a bozo get dunked on every now and then but most of these people are not worth the effort to interact with. Spend time learning something new or organizing with people who will listen.
Twitter is such a blessing/curse. There’s some great content on there and it’s a good way to quickly digest the news. However, there is SO much trash on there.
It’s probably best to avoid reading most replies. For example, Ben Norton gets tons of braindead trolls.
I ended up deleting my personal account and making a private account that I use just to follow people. I don’t interact with anyone on there AT ALL and my life has been much better.
Definitely agree about only following a small number of high quality accounts. On my old account I ended up following a bunch of small time ML accounts. Most of them seemed nice but they would spend most of their time arguing/QT’ing libs and fascists. I don’t think this is a productive way to spend time.
I’ve been meaning to just link mastodon to the accounts I follow but I’ve been lazy.
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I mean I love seeing a bozo get dunked on every now and then but most of these people are not worth the effort to interact with. Spend time learning something new or organizing with people who will listen.