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by yeldarb 1145 days ago
This post spends a lot of time criticizing the "pointless line breaks" but not a lot of time on why this is a problem or "must be stopped". Block or mute the people that annoy you and move on; problem solved.
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It's contributing to the massive signal-to-noise decline on tech related topics on Twitter lately.

As an open-source AI developer myself I'm discouraged because anything I'd release would be drowned out by hypebros.

Twitter has always been something that requires constant vigilance to curate your feeds. Of course searching generic keywords for extremely trendy topics like "A.I." will be full of low quality tweets.

Maybe this is new because your interest/hobby tech is now associated with the "hustle" trend jumpers but it's always been that with with startups so I'm used to it.

Otherwise whining about how low budget social media users "Must be stopped" instead of just blocking/unfollowing and moving on is a waste of life because they aren't going away.

Along with this, this type of hype conditions people to view the subject as a scam. The rampant comparisons to crypto are an example of it. People making those comparisons are largely talking about the people who talk about the technology rather than the technology itself.
I have never had success with Twitter’s algorithm or expecting their search to surface good results for topics I care about. A much more effective way is to find experts in that field and follow them directly. Your feed will have a much higher signal to noise ratio.
"must be stopped" is a meme which means "is annoying"
It’s the opposite of “must be protected” which means “is something I like”