My vice was reddit, I could spend a lot of time on different subreddits for different topics and usually always find something new.

But I do agree with you, being away from the noise has been really freeing for my mind

> What was the last thing you remember being must-see sfuff on Twitter?

The Russia circus last weekend made for some pretty good near real-time intrigue. That being said, I don’t care what crazy thing is happening…I’m not creating an account to hear what’s being said on “The Global Town Square ™”

My experience of it was actually opposite. I first started from Twitter, trying to piece together something from the chaos of tweets, but then I went to an actual news site which had a nicely packed timeline with latest action and had more accurate and more up-to-date information.

In theory, Twitter should be that real-time news feed from these kind of events, but it doesn't actually work. Signal-to-noise ratio is just very low.

> We are oriented to think that way after ~15 years of the algorithmic engagement-maxi world of Twitter.

I never cared about algorithmic engagement.

Before (and during) the engagement Twitter:

- has everyone you needed there, centralised

- has search, where you can find people and topics you care about

Mastodon has none of that: you have to know which server to join and how to find people and topics. Centralization always beats distribution in convenience.

You may not care about algorithmic engagement, but that doesn't mean that the content you are looking is free of the incentives created by said algorithmic engagement. I use Twitter search too, but it's full of hot takes, because that's what the network rewards.

It's kinda like the "I don't care about politics" stand. You might not care, but the institutions you interact with every day certainly do.

I mostly use Twitter search to find specific posts like "@rich_harris web components" or similar.

This is extremely useful