Twitter in general is a hellscape. It's basically an anti-discussion, anti-solidarity machine where all communication is forced to take the form of reductive shitposts. I use it still because news does travel fast there, but yikes.
THIS. Like, how am I supposed to discuss the socio-economic intricacies of the issue at hand when I'm limited to 200 something characters. That's fucking dumb.
I use Flym (it's an F-Droid android app), but I keep musing about getting a raspberry pi and setting up ttrss. I don't do RSS on the desktop, maybe I should...
Feeder is another F-droid app worth looking at. I had an issue with it, submitted a bug report, and it was patched within a week. Creator emailed me to ensure it was resolved.
100%. The character limit alone makes it impossible for real discussion to happen, and has helped create a platform that’s mostly people trying to out oh-so-clever-quip each other from a detached, insincere and isolated place.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s mostly just good for A) like you touched on, getting news fast (and in the case of left Twitter, outside the framing of msm) and B) having some good quick yuks reading Weird Twitter accounts. But those two small components aren’t really separable from the 90 percent of it that’s awful.
Twitter in general is a hellscape. It's basically an anti-discussion, anti-solidarity machine where all communication is forced to take the form of reductive shitposts. I use it still because news does travel fast there, but yikes.
THIS. Like, how am I supposed to discuss the socio-economic intricacies of the issue at hand when I'm limited to 200 something characters. That's fucking dumb.
I replaced my twitter app with an rss feed reader, best decision ever. Twitter was useless for posting and for reading.
What do you use, if you don't mind? I've been using yoleoreader for a while but it seems to have stopped working with ArsTechnica for some reason.
I use Flym (it's an F-Droid android app), but I keep musing about getting a raspberry pi and setting up ttrss. I don't do RSS on the desktop, maybe I should...
Thanks, chummer!
Feeder is another F-droid app worth looking at. I had an issue with it, submitted a bug report, and it was patched within a week. Creator emailed me to ensure it was resolved.
100%. The character limit alone makes it impossible for real discussion to happen, and has helped create a platform that’s mostly people trying to out oh-so-clever-quip each other from a detached, insincere and isolated place.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s mostly just good for A) like you touched on, getting news fast (and in the case of left Twitter, outside the framing of msm) and B) having some good quick yuks reading Weird Twitter accounts. But those two small components aren’t really separable from the 90 percent of it that’s awful.