The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media

Re:The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media by pjc50 on Thursday September 20, 2018 @06:31AM (#18031157)

Don't use twitter for general news. Mute the news sources if you have to. If it's big enough it will bleed over into your feed anyway. Often I can work out what the news is by reverse-engineering the jokes about it.

It's much more interesting for highly specific news. I've got some accounts I follow for local news, some for gamedev news, people doing interesting tech, art, jokes, and a few "commentators" who are excellent enough to be worth reading on their own. It can be great for kibitzing on live TV events too.

Mind you, these days I post very little original stuff too. The internet is just too much of a live-fire zone.

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Re:The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media by eksemplar on Thursday September 20, 2018 @07:27AM (#18031396)

HN is my only form of digital news, so I’m a little old school. In fact the only news I read regularly is a national paper that only comes out once a week, that way all the journalists have had time to digest the weeks events and I get a compiled list of what was actually important.

I tried following HN styled things on twitter but it just never worked out for me.

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Re:The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media by Sharper on Thursday September 20, 2018 @07:38AM (#18031463)

What's the name of that weekly paper, if you don't mind sharing?

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