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I've viewed twitter wayyyyy less (only when someone links something) since Tweetbot stopped working and I think it's been good for my mental health. A login wall will take that usage down to zero, so good news overall.

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I find Twitter really annoying to use now, since they made it so all of the replies from blue checkmark accounts get boosted to the top of the feed. I have to scroll past all of them just to find "normal" comments. The BlueBlocker browser extension is helping, but it can only block 1 account approximately every 15 seconds, or it triggers a rate limit and I have to sign-in to Twitter again.

Just goes to show you why some startups fail. It's on musk, who is changing Twitter to have the characteristics of a startup that would have failed.

Yes it's enormous and popular now, but that's in spite of musks product vision.

If you use Twitter on the desktop, you can simply hide the blue check tweets. It greatly improves the quality of the content.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-blue-checks/a...

Yeah the replies were always the best part to me. That's destroyed now along with most of my interest in twitter.

You forgot to notice that Twitter has a pure chronological timeline now without any algorithmic recommendations. Surely that will outweigh people with blue checkmarks in the replies.

Same here. I haven’t really missed it at all (by contrast, I stopped using Reddit when the blackout started earlier this month, and that feels like more of a loss).

Weirdly, Twitter had started becoming so unreliable for me for several months prior (frequently not loading, video rarely working) that my click-through rate on Twitter links was already diminishing. But looks like it’s 0% from here on out.

Yes and it’s weird how weaning yourself off these things can go more easily than expected if you’re ”forced” to (because how you need to use the service changes too much for your tastes).

I think it speaks a lot about the _illusion of value_ these networks provide vs actual value.

As soon as I saw tweetdeck, which was like the gluttonous way of consuming all of Twitter all at once, I started thinking about the architect, from the movie The matrix. The guy with the enormous wall of televisions all watching neo in all of his different dimensions, checking to make sure he wasn't about to upset the balance of the matrix.

We are are not that sophisticated of animals. I mean we're not as dumb as dinosaurs were where they forgot about prey if the prey turned the corner out of their sight, but we're not as smart as we want to believe we are. So I think Twitter is Entertainment and Should not be relied upon.

I’ve completely stopped using Twitter for the same reason. I only occasionally (once every few weeks) click a Tweet that’s shared with me.

I haven’t missed it.

I've gone from spending 5-10 hours a week on twitter to less than 30 minutes a week. Keep working your magic Elon.

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