[buzz27]

I would pay even more to never again see "recommended" tweets from people I don't follow. I use Twitter sort of like RSS, insofar as I want to be able to see everything the people I follow tweet. It amazes me that its not possible to coerce Twitter to do this in the settings. Instead I have to view users individually to see what they've tweeted since I last checked the app.

[ravenstine]

I've noticed that other platforms like Facebook have been doing something similar. (not that I use Facebook much at all). It used to be a feed of things I've chosen... now half of it is stuff from meme pages, businesses, and animal rescue videos I've never shown any interest in. If I remove one of them, it just finds some other bullshit to push in front of me.

It's like a subtle admission that these platforms are on their way out and they're throwing their own Barnum & Bailey circus just to keep anyone around.

[droopyEyelids]

might be a help to you: https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac5...

[lt]

this is awesome, thanks

[panic]

Do you know about the "sparkle button"? https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/18/twitter-rolls-out-the-spar...

[sneak]

This masterpiece of user respect actually reverts periodically to the original, default, "shit up my timeline with likes of my follows from people i don't follow" mode that benefits twitter at your expense, even after you've set it to "don't do that" multiple times.

That, along with the fact that Twitter now censors its search results, are the main reasons I stopped donating content to the platform and deleted my account after 12 years.

[Tomte]

I just looked at it again, and it's still on chronological, even though I haven't touched it in months (I usually read Twitter through tweetdeck). I'm actually surprised.

But you're right in that the changing-back behaviour was there some months ago. I don't know if they gave up this user-hostile behaviour or if they segment the user base in several groups and I'm lucky.

[dredmorbius]

On some platforms, custom streams or lists can be used.

On the late little-lamented Google+, a set of features converged to give this option:

- It was possible to define what profiles could comment on one's own posts, or whose notifications would be visible. I simply piled all my contacts into two lists ("Circles") called "notifications" and "comments". If someone abused that privilege, they were removed.

- The default Home stream could include "featured" or "recommended" content. Individual lists could not. Obvious hack: don't look at the Home stream, and instead have a primary list. On desktop, I further hacked the CSS to remove any references to streams I wasn't interested in following, e.g., the short-lived "Games" category, and "What's Hot" (an absolute cesspit of anodyne irrelevance).

- On successor platforms, I typically set up about three lists in order of priority, often literally "A", "B", and "C". The highest-quality (and lowest-volume) posters go in A, spillover to B, and especially annoying / high-volume to C. If a profile's contributions are not useful, they're unfollowed.

- Block early and often. Where merely unfollowing isn't enough. https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/104371585950783019

- Mastodon has the additional feature of being able to block an entire instance. For large instances (tens to hundreds of thousands of accounts) this may be overkill. For smaller ones with hostile cultures, it's quite handy.

I'll note: HN has none of these features, but it has excellent moderation, and the option of collapsing annoying threads. If I find myself conversing with someone to whom my meagre skills in communication seem utterly inadequate, I collapse the thread and move on. HN preserves those collapsed states (at times this is an antifeature, here, it's useful).

This isn't quite as powerful as the block-user feature, but in the context of HN's other controls, it's generally sufficient.

[fdiskl]

I just use regular rss. thankfully there is still some content out there which uses rss. I like the fact that anyone can put uo their own rss feed with whatever they want without needing to be "curated" or "evaluated against terms of service" of some central system

[cwkoss]

Or stop notifications about someone liking a reply to a reply to a reply of my tweet.

If you don't mute conversations as soon as they become boring, your notifications get filled with junk.

[ffggvv]

i recommend making “lists”. that’s what i do. just add everyone i care to see to the list (can seperate lists by category also)

[jpindar]

You can do that.

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

[asdff]

There are actually tools to connect twitter with RSS so you can enforce chronological and do what you say.

[cblconfederate]

you can switch to "latest tweets" mode