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I would agree, except that Twitter pushes so much content from people you don't follow while attempting to keep you engaged. I'm talking about the likes, retweets, comments, etc. If twitter did only display content from people you followed, it would actually be quite pleasant to read.

I created a Chrome extension to do this, but the recent redesign broke it and I haven't figured out how to get it to work again. The new css/class system is rather opaque.

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I wrote an extension which does that; it keeps you on the Latest Tweets timeline and moves retweets to their own fake timeline, so by default you only see original tweets and quote tweets from people you follow:

https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter

I've been using Twitter this way for years and consequently find the unmodified version completely unusable, so it was either learn how to do it on New Twitter or quit using it at all.

That seems redundant. You can already turn off seeing retweets from accounts you follow, and the "latest tweets" timeline is already pretty sticky. I've never had it revert to the default "home" timeline across any computer or phone app install.

My experience has been about once a month the iOS app (phone & tablet) will revert from Latest to Top. It will show an easy-to-miss toast message saying "You're now seeing top tweets first."

Once a month sounds nice. Mine likes to revert within a week :) (for the times I actually use twitter more than a couple times a month)

This is great, thank you! Installed!

I use alternative applications. Tweetdeck on desktop and Flamingo for android. Among other things, they can view my follows in chronological order with no algorithm nonsense.

> from people you don't follow

To try to recover the metaphor: A television pretending to be a window. Which... isn't a new problem.

I use separate private lists and only visit them instead of home page. No content pushing from Twitter, so far.

I agree. Got sick of the pushing.

Switched to going to the source, skipping social media which is just “Mechanical Turk for dumb shit”.

Discord/Slack groups for projects that have them.

Email is working great for connecting to academics and open source communities that don’t give a shit about Slack.

Twitter and Facebook seem anachronistic and archaic to me. If I wanted to know what the average American thinks about daily life right now, I’ll write in my journal or ask my neighbor.

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