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Why even bother using Twitter at that point? This seems wrong somehow. Turn off the computer and go outside.

Usually I don't make comments like this but come on. Seriously?

If one genuinely feels as though they need this level of advanced machinery to survive the apparently harrowing experience of using Twitter, they may choose to reevaluate their habits.

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It's a natural tool in a digital world. IRL you can literally walk away from a conversation to express your disgust and disinterest in argument in a low-effort manner. On Twitter you can't make the same gesture, so an analogous low-effort measure is to stop listening. It would not be nice to block people like that IRL, but it's a different thing on the internet where millions of people and their cats can easily waste your time.

The actual analogous action would be to keep scrolling. This does nothing to show disgust as no one else knows that you blocked them.

You can keep scrolling, but the other side keeps posting, and that gets put into your feed nevertheless.

You're implying Twitter is worth using at *this* point. Removing the irredeemable 20% from our collective feeds might actually make a Twitter a more positive place and worth using again.

There's a lot of creatives that need twitter in order to make their second income viable (promotion for their patreon/etsy/gumroad stores, etc).

... and there's a lot of those artists who get sent death threats for the sheer crime of drawing NSFW art or even milder LGBT+ works.

I used to be on that track of indie artist promotion but swore off twitter after repeatedly seeing that level of harassment. Why post? While I was on there, this was an enormously helpful tool that at least cut down on the level of toxic messages seen.

I don't see an issue with it, it's a decent tool for curating who you see and interact with on the already-toxic platform.

Twitter has its purpose, deep deep below the miles of garbage.

You can't think of a single good use case for a tool like this? Consider receiving a bunch of hate-tweets based on some physical aspect of your appearance.

There's a number of people who pretty much have to use Twitter for their job. Writers, pundits, journalists, etc.

Twitter doesn't have good platform-wide moderation. By default, you get all the notifications about people talking to you in one place. You can't see comments from friends or business contacts without wading through the strangers demanding your attention and death threats too.

I disagree , Twitter has phenomenal platform wide moderation for the mute feature Alone.

turn back on the computer and play elden ring. touch grace

Silicon Valley elite VCs (like Mike Solana - the guy who requested this feature) are terminally online. They have opulent wealth, but spend their day glued to a phone. I suppose that’s a sign of a true addiction. When you could be doing almost anything else, and yet you spend time on an app that embodies pure hell.

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