isaiahJan 27, 2023

after a few weeks on mastodon without much thought about twitter i’ve noticed a distinct change in my own mood.
i think twitter force-feeding us rage inducing tweets every day was having more of an impact on my psyche than i care to admit.

i didn’t follow much politics and always used Twitteriffic — but the people i followed retweeted their algorithmic rage all day every day.

i really feel like i owe someone a thank you for giving me this piece of my life back that’s been missing for years.

Show threadJoe Fabisevich Jan 27, 2023
@isaiah @bigzaphod I noticed the same thing a few weeks back. Because almost everyone used the algorithmic timeline no matter how sheltered I wanted to be I was dealing with the second order effects of it. It’s wild how much calmer this dynamic is, and how much I didn’t realize it could be better because I thought I was already opting out of the algorithm. https://macaw.social/@mergesort/109656093466389033
Joe Fabisevich :verified: (@[email protected])

A very cool thing about Mastodon is that I’m not constantly seeing the dumbest of debates like “is SwiftUI production ready?” I didn’t even use the algorithmic timeline, but since those tweets performed well the algorithm would rank those tweets highly and inject them into the timeline of anyone I followed who used the algorithmic timeline. Then the people I followed would tweet their own takes, which meant I was constantly being bombarded with the dumbest of takes even though I used Tweetbot.

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Show threadMatilda
@mergesort @isaiah @bigzaphod Yep! Same for me. Second order effects is a great way to put it. I’ve been here exclusively since early Nov and I also realized how much people often didn’t want to interact unless you were also talking about the rage du jour.
Jan 28, 2023 at 4:14pmWeb