This is why I spend more time on reddit than other social networks. Though they've tried to move away from it recently reddit has always been a content-focused network instead of a people-focused network.
Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
by robin_reala on Saturday May 29, 2021 @05:40AM
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You’re on Hacker News, which is exactly the opposite of Reddit for the reason you describe. dang reminded me the other day of this comment of his where he lays out HN’s position as a non-siloed site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098
HN definitely has a topic, it's "things that hackers find interesting". Mainstream political news is usually off topic unless it's incredibly important. And you definitely can't post about that pizza you had for lunch, unless it's a rundown of how you built an arduino-controlled pizza oven.
Twitter has no topic at all. The interesting is jumbled with the inane, so the signal to noise ratio is very poor.
no one is complaining that a given person talks about multiple things.
people sometimes complain that there is only one topic on Twitter: the main stream, and therefore only one way to consume the things those individuals say. it's all or none, and that's what people are not happy about.
there's an argument to be made that "this is how Twitter is" which is valid, I think.
there's also an argument to be made that "my interests are specific, and everything else wastes my time" and I think there is just as much merit in that point of view.