Twitter has a machine learning algorithm that actively steers people towards political/controversial content. If you choose to see tweets "recent first" to avoid this, Twitter will accidentally-on-purpose 'forget' this every few days, and return you to the AI-generated anger maximization feed. That's blatantly user-hostile behavior that wasn't present on Usenet or IRC.
Re:On Using Twitter
by leephillips on Friday August 07, 2020 @03:02PM
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You can bypass all of this and turn Twitter into a useful newsfeed:
Re:On Using Twitter
by aspenmayer on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:38AM
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I feel like they’re burying the lede, so here it is:
Re:On Using Twitter
by aspenmayer on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:40AM
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Try this combined with lists to get chronological feeds that stick and stay stuck.
As for the rest of your comment, the personal is political. Twitter is personal. HN, for example, is much more of a water cooler type beat.
If you use a 3rd-party app you can view in chronological order and it will stick.
Re:On Using Twitter
by aspenmayer on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:37AM
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There’s also this:
FREE and natively supported and part of Twitter domain itself, on my feed?!
Everything old is new again. Twitter is fine. It’s people who suck. Exercise your own restraint and freedom to associate. Externalizing blame is to throw up your hands and to join all the other naysayers in yelling at clouds.