No thanks I won’t waste my limited lifetime tweaking some algorithm to serve me better ragebait.

Haven’t used any of these platforms in the last 5 years and I haven’t missed it a single minute - you should try it sometime

They were talking to someone else so not sure what the point of this reply is?

If you don't want to use the site there's no problem with that, just don't use it. But this is in direct response to a claim "this site [with a brand new user account with no history] is unusable" which - if your goal is to use the site - is easily fixed.

If your goal is just to go "well I don't even use the site and you should try it and be as Good a person as I am" then it doesn't really matter either way.

I was responding to the claim that it’s sensible to go and tweak the algorithm to make the site usable - it think that’s a waste of life time and humanity as a whole would benefit if people don’t waste their very limited time on this stuff - idc what anyone here thinks of me, I just don’t want to lose more of my fellow humans to the mindless algorithms

Agreed. Twitter is now awful, and I'm not even being biassed. I checked it out recently via xcancel.

The promotion of blue-ticks above everything has completely ruined it as the blue-tick has no correlation to quality - often the inverse.

IMO Twitter has a core failure in promoting premium accounts over regular ones, then compensating those users for the amount of traffic they generate. Almost any post that goes viral will be swarmed by trolling/low effort responses from premium users who are looking to capitalize on outrage clicks. It's an exhausting user experience, IMO. I don't miss it at all.

Disagree, I still have my account and check it periodically when I get linked to something on Twitter and the feed and trending are both pretty crap (maybe it would be different if I used it every day, but I never used it every day, even when I created the account ~10-ish years ago. But my feeds are way worse than they used to be).

And it keeps putting things I really don't want to see in my feed, that aren't by anyone I follow.

Facebook has also gotten worse with its feed as far as sometimes injecting things into it I don't want, but most of it is still decent or at least relevant to my interests, and usually product or harmless news related (I get a lot of Kickstarter and mobile game ads, or celebrity gossip for some reason, even though I couldn't care less about most celebrities' lives) instead of political outrage and misinformation like I tend to get on Twitter.