Not sure why you're ignoring the various official and unofficial accounts which use Twitter to distribute information during natural disasters which has saved lives, in a way that RSS can't replicate.

Fair point.

I think it depends on who you follow (which filter bubble you are in). Try unfollowing everyone who is not an actual personal friend (or use a pinned list to see only their tweets).

I have Facebook and Instagram for that, depending on the age of the friend.

On Twitter these same people are much more likely to post a hot take than pictures of their kids or pets. The platform draws out toxicity even in otherwise easygoing people.

Sadly this is true on academic Twitter too. There’s a certain type of content and language that gets likes and retweets, so people gravitate toward that. It teaches people negative and cynical thinking.

You can see that many of those who move from Twitter to Mastodon bring the same habits with them.

The Meta products are more beholden to their demographics, unlike Twitter.

Most of my family and friends stopped using Facebook around 2015, and Instagram is predominantly for young people, vain people, or photographers.

Nah, LinkedIn takes the cake in that regard. If you wanna feel full on narcissism and a bunch of meaningless fake posts with people trying appear as something they're not... LinkedIn is the place to be.

LinkedIn and Nextdoor are the two worst social platforms around, it's the worst kind of horrible, a sort of superficial rage and invasiveness, a complete disregard for others as human beings.

Say what you will about Twitter, but at least the insults there are direct and tend to stay exclusive to Twitter - as opposed to neighbors convincing each other of the worst or your ability to land a job being sabotaged because your profile doesn't have enough keywords.

Yep, at least there are some posts on Twitter that occasionally make me laugh. LinkedIn just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and you almost have to use it nowadays.

That's not even remotely true (re: the need to use LinkedIn). Just quit.

It's not remotely true??? You're just off-base with that statement. A ton of companies look there and recruit through that site. Yeah you don't HAVE to use it but you're putting yourself at a disadvantage if you don't.

it honestly never occurred to me that there is a “usage” of linkedin other than putting up a profile to field offers from recruiters

Linkedin is the only social media which has ever been of any tangible benefit to me, though. It makes getting jobs trivially easy, and I only have to login once every few years.

This almost makes it worse. It's like you're expected to use it to get a job now.