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 threadSteve Streza
@isaiah About 6 months ago I disabled all retweets using some Twitter filter, it's amazing how much of my feed wasn't people I actually wanted to talk to, it was just retweets.
Jan 28, 2023 at 9:56pmWeb
Show threadisaiahJan 28, 2023

@stevestreza i did the same. for 90% of my feed i only saw people's organic tweets. but i think it's only so useful.

you can quit smoking but it's not going to make a difference if you hang out all day in a bar with chainsmokers.

i feel like even if i followed mostly people that were filtering their feed, the algorithm was still polluting the river upstream or something. and it's tireless -- eventually its relentless push refocuses some people back toward rage-farming for dollars.