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Re:Quitting Twitter by fossuser on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:58PM (#26268238)
Sometimes it introduces you to new people though that are interesting to follow (usually because people in your network liked their post or something). I find this generally valuable.

If you want to be extreme about it, you can put everyone in lists and then this won't happen. You can also use a third party client that doesn't do this.

My main Twitter complaint is the ads. There are so many and they suck. I'd much rather have Twitter premium that removes the ads.

Re:Quitting Twitter by ywei3410 on Thursday February 25, 2021 @07:29PM (#26270173)
That's quite surprising; I've found the ads to be fairly unobtrusive compared to almost any other website. I would prefer there to be a text only mode though - every so often, the ad repaint will cause the UI to "jump".
Re:Quitting Twitter by _qulr on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:12PM (#26268409)
> My main Twitter complaint is the ads. There are so many and they suck.

There are no ads in third party clients such as Tweetbot.

Re:Quitting Twitter by CodeGlitch on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:05PM (#26268928)
When I was on Twitter I found the ads so distracting that I used the web version on my phone with Firefox and ublock origin. This did the job, just about if you can cope with the web client clumsiness and lag.
Re:Quitting Twitter by fossuser on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:33PM (#26268614)
I tried to use tweet bot for a while, but I couldn't stick with it.