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by Markoff 1309 days ago
> For sites like Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, etc. The purpose of social media to me is mostly to ask for high quality answers if I need something.

I wonder how successful you were, because from my experience asking question about anything on reddit is completely meaningless, pretty much all people answering won't read further than title and provide useless answers and you end up doing extensive internet research on your own to find out nobody helped you. That was my experience through years and many tries with Reddit.

> Some sites allow you to block things.

Highly recommended for Twitter - I don't want to waste my time with people agreeing with something completely against my values, they may be nice people under different circumstances and nice hypocrites (as shown through "pandemic"), but at least online I don't want to waste time with them. https://megablock.xyz

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It depends on the topic, but I generally only ask technical/straightforward questions like programming, how to do X, where to buy X etc.

Yup just block them, its not like they are going to change your opinion, especially with low quality answers. Internet debate is 99% useless all the time. Books/articles are better. I’d argue that public literal fist fights have better net positive to society compared to public virtual online mudslingings.