No, it's not enough. Twitter constantly showes me nudes that are liked by some people I follow. I hate this feature.

They should be an option to limit your feed only to the people you follow, but it is unlikely we'll see it because it contradicts the platform aim to increase engagement, by hook or by crook.

I think that feature exists unless I am imagining things? There should be a ... button on the top of the tweet and there should be something like "Not interested in this tweet" there. When you click it, I think it says "show fewer tweets by X" and there should also be an option to see fewer of the likes / retweets from a person.

But in reality, in twitter, like is a soft form of retweeting and users know it. So if someone you follow uses the "like / favorite" feature it also kind of means they want people to see it. For bookmarks, there is a different bookmark functionality. On twitter, like is a low weighted retweet that does not show up in the user's profile directly.

The feature exists, but it doesn't work. Repeatedly asking for "fewer likes by this person" doesn't visibly reduce the frequency of those likes being pushed onto you. The whole thing is a stupid misfeature: Likes are not retweets, so they shouldn't behave like them.

They behave like that and pretty much every user (past a couple months) knows that. When a person presses "like" they know that some of their followers will see that. It signals "this is interesting" publicly, what other purpose could it serve? People that follow you would like to see it, of course. If you don't like people's likes don't follow them.

That said, the feature has always worked for me - actually it works too well that I have to think before I use it. Because after setting it once, it seems like I never hear from that person again. So it feels like an unfollow for me. Maybe the functionality depends on how much you interact with the person on Twitter? I don't know. I don't interact with people much on twitter, so when I choose that option, I don't see any likes from that person ever again, and it feels like I see their tweets A LOT less often than desired.

> what other purpose could it serve?

1. Agreement with the tweet, directed at the author only.

2. A form of "bookmarking" tweets for later. It's no accident that for most of Twitter's life this wasn't called a "like" but a "favorite" (with a star instead of a heart symbol).

As for "some of their followers will see it" and "I don't know [how it works]": That is precisely the problem. Your timeline isn't determined by your choices and the choices of the people you follow. The "algorithmic" timeline also adds a lot of randomness and unwanted choices that you can't control.

I've been saying "Show this less often" / "Fewer likes by this person" / etc pretty much continuously on every element ever since that option appeared.

As far as I can tell, it has never had any effect whatsoever. I still see the components I dismiss, and I still see likes from the same people. Possibly less often... but it's hard to tell when it's every time I open the page.

At this point I click it mostly out of stubbornness and perverse curiosity, to see if the company is at all capable of changing this awful course.

Then use Tweetdeck, and leave the "activity" column closed. The only things in your "home" column are things tweeted or retweeted by people you follow, and you can exclude the retweets if you want. There's other filters too.

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

Follow better people? (Or at least don't follow their "personal" accounts)

The people are ok. It just happened that within russian opposition female members have a weird tradition to do #nudesthursday

I am generally interested in what they write but on Thursdays they post nudes and like nudes of other females I don't follow, and Twitter shows me a lot of their likes. It annoys me to no end.

> They should be an option to limit your feed only to the people you follow

You can functionally get the same thing by using the "list" feature instead of following people.

Or by using Tweetdeck.

There is an even better way. Never look at your timeline, so never see any pushed material at all: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/

Do you use the official Twitter clients? Because they seem to push different, “popular” content pretty hard. Many people joked that ‘Super follow’ should have been replaced by ‘Super block’