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by adhoc32 1863 days ago
To all complaining that twitter is full of hate. Have you ever tried using twitter without the search feature, or clicking on hashtags? I'm following a lot of interesting people and I find the content fascinating.
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The best way to improve it would be an optional UI that didn't show comments to posts.

Everyone time I read those, and I can't help it sometimes, I lose a little more faith in humanity.

The real rabbit hole is to click on a particularly pungent response's source. It's always some guy with tens per day rude bon mots to his favorite enemies.

I strongly recommend using any unofficial Twitter app. My experience significantly improved once I stopped seeing "liked" tweets from people I follow. I don't even understand what the point of that is, if they wanted to share those with their followers they'd retweet it
I think using the tweetdeck interface (https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/) also helps, since it doesn't show recommended tweets.
I follow a carefully curated list of people in my field but invariable hate gets on my feed. People slip and can't resist liking a tweet about a recent controversy, or giving their sociopolitical hot-take, and then you get exposed to it even when they tweet 99% of the time about math.

I agree the content can be absolutely invaluable and fascinating otherwise, but I just couldn't deal with the seeping toxicity in the end.

twitter lets you mute words so posts with them don't show up (from anyone I believe). I highly recommend it
For me, Twitter is immensely useful only if I use the search feature.