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by sdoering 2240 days ago
For some years now I had not visited Twitter. Over the last three days I followed links to Twitter because they got pushed into my way.

Man was I taken aback every single time. The initial tweets referred to me were quite interesting nuggets. But once I started scrolling some distance down I was immediately in a strange land of turf wars between different groups of tin foil hat people. And people promoting their fake COVID views all over.

From that it was just a short step to adding twitter to my blocked hosts file.

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I have twitter, facebook, instagram, reddit all blocked. I seem to benefit from a feature in iMessage where Apple will proxy the content to show the preview in-line, but I’m not able to click through to the actual site. This is nice, because people can share funny tweets with me and I can respond to that person only, without getting sucked in.
Same! The initial tweets are generally ok.

But as soon as you scroll down, the comments make you want to throw up.