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My setup for using Twitter without hating it (qotoqot.com)
10 points by ivm on Jan 23, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



I find that not using Twitter [or Facebook, or Instagram, or any social media] at all works best for me. And is even easier to set up.


I used to have that attitude and approach, but since adopting a severely restricted approach I'm finding Twitter to be a valuable source of information and resources. By simply "not using Twitter" you are deciding that the potential for resources and information is out-weighed by the effort in using it constructively.

That's a choice to make, and I can see why you and others would make that choice. I've chosen to take advantage of the resource that is the carefully filtered and curated Twitter feed. The posted article shows one way to make that possible.


A slightly less facetious answer:

As an experiment and from the point of view of publishing rather than consuming [which I think the article was more focussed on]: I've replaced my old Twitter accounts [one linked to my personal blog, one linked to my company website] with Telegram Channels.

Over the past few months I've noticed the 'Follow us on Telegram' links cropping up on more and more websites, alongside the more common "Follow us on Facebook" and "Follow us on Twitter" ones.

Personally, I think this is the way to go. Whatever your political viewpoint, I hope most fair-minded people would acknowledge that there's something pretty unsavoury going on at the minute with the 'cancel culture' which seems to be pervading Silicon Valley and various other virtue signalling arenas. I don't particularly consider anything that I'm likely to <insert Telegram equivalent of 'tweet'> on my Telegram channel to be outrageously controversial, criminal or provocative. But, as we've seen of late, some people seem capable of finding almost anything offensive, and over-reacting. So I prefer to use an outlet where I don't feel the need to pre-emptively censor my thoughts, for fear of being cancelled or forced into grovelling apologies.


Twitter is the only one that can be truly useful. For example, the iOS developer community has been active there for more than a decade.




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