An alternative solution might be to leave Twitter. Talk to ppl irl. Read the news paper and I mean the paper (digital edition is acceptable too) not the website/app.
Yes. And to go further, discuss what you read with your friends and family: "Hey, did you hear about X? What did you think of it?". There is a high chance that at least some of these people have a different perspective, and there's a high chance some can bring a new perspective.
Disagreement is fundamentally healthy, as long as all parties hold their beliefs in good faith. It's much easier to hold a bad faith discussion on the internet than in person.
This seems to be a prevailing view of Twitter as a newpaper replacement or for political discourse.
For the sake of it, Twitter as a tool has many other uses:
There's a ton of illustrators and photographers that post their work on Twitter, it's an excellent alternative to Instagram in that respect, in particular for those who don't want to deal with Facebook/Meta.
Blocking an artist who's work you don't like isn't creating any nocive filter bubble, you get in exchange a timeline of nice pics that make you happy.
I think a lot of people want to have political discourse and interact with the news events of the world, and desperately look for a place to do it. I'd wager any tool/platform that is chosen for that will very fast look like a cesspool of nastiness. People who feel Twitter is crushing their life should rethink what they're looking for in Twitter, and follow, I don't know, @hourlywolvesbot ?
Please don't read the news paper; it's editorialized thought vomit without a shred of skeptical empiricism. The news industry might just be the most potent industry for willfully manufacturing confirmation bias among the masses.
I think journalists would beg to differ. I believe that journalism is a good thing. Humans aren’t equipped to process all of Twitter effectively. Use Twitter for getting a signal of what’s happening or what interests you. To gain better information that’s been processed, digested, and summarized for you then I think journalism is great.
bArray|3 years ago
Disagreement is fundamentally healthy, as long as all parties hold their beliefs in good faith. It's much easier to hold a bad faith discussion on the internet than in person.
makeitdouble|3 years ago
For the sake of it, Twitter as a tool has many other uses:
There's a ton of illustrators and photographers that post their work on Twitter, it's an excellent alternative to Instagram in that respect, in particular for those who don't want to deal with Facebook/Meta.
Blocking an artist who's work you don't like isn't creating any nocive filter bubble, you get in exchange a timeline of nice pics that make you happy.
I think a lot of people want to have political discourse and interact with the news events of the world, and desperately look for a place to do it. I'd wager any tool/platform that is chosen for that will very fast look like a cesspool of nastiness. People who feel Twitter is crushing their life should rethink what they're looking for in Twitter, and follow, I don't know, @hourlywolvesbot ?
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