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Because often when you click on a link that goes to Twitter and start reading a thread they will pester you to make an account and won’t let you read the whole thread if you don’t.

Also, Elon Musk.

there's also a billion times where i've clicked on a twitter link which is a useless summary and a link to the actual article

For what it's worth, this behavior has always bothered me hugely (can't read a thread without registering), but disappeared shortly after the last point you cite. Now there is just a nag notification similar to a cookie acceptance bar, you can dismiss it and read the whole thread without interruption:

https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1635427567271329792

Let me know if it works for you now. (I have no affiliation to Twitter, just curious.)

Thanks, that’s a nice change then :)

I manage to avoid that by using uMatrix to block scripts, and it's not even supported anymore.

Speaking for myself here, but:

> It's a frustrating read past X amount of characters, promoting low-quality takes, or alternatively, a segmented mess of an essay

> Low-quality discourse that usually only muddies the subject

> JavaScript

You are getting downvoted for "lol".

Because it very quickly became difficult to read a narrative without losing ones way into... I don't even know, unrelated pointlessness that has no right to exist.

It's a gateway to somewhere I've never had any desire to visit: other people's drama.

Twitter used to be controlled by the blue tribe. Now it’s been bought by a (perceived) member of the red tribe. It’s a simple as that.

People feel the need to signal their tribal affiliation and attack those from other tribes. Been part of human behaviour since humans began.

Non partisan reasons to dislike Twitter as a tool of communication were posted before you made this comment.

Anyway, your experience of any social media depends on how you curate it. For example I only follow professional photographers on Instagram so that's the only kind of content I see there.

>Anyway, your experience of any social media depends on how you curate it.

That's not entirely true anymore. Many users of Twitter have recently mentioned the alarming number of violent videos being added to their "For You" suggestions. These users are largely self-siloed into the industry they operate in and self-describe as people that dont follow "fight video" accounts or people that consume that content.

It seems either the suggestion algo has been broken, is being gamed by users, or the platform owners are choosing to feed users toxic content that they didnt request for some reason.

On a tech forum one would expect the reasons to be more centered upon tech rather than (what I think you're referring to anyway) politics. Twitter sucks because it's full of JavaScript and tracking that you don't need, so I would imagine that most on HN would find it burdensome to even view the content, since many in tech whittle the content down to only getting the packets necessary - which Twitter/Facebook make very difficult. Nitter has a much better user interface and makes it much easier to see what is happening on your device. Other than that, the content is mostly just low quality as well, so there's little reason to use it.

No.

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