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I don't use Twitter, except to look at tweets that people on HN or whatever link to. And the main reason that I don't is that the idea of "following" just doesn't work for me. I tried it. But even people who sometimes post stuff that interests me mostly post stuff that just gets in my way.

I like HN. But I never look at particular users' posts. I just look at the front page, or sometimes at the comments list, so see what people are talking about.



Hacker news is pretty well regulated though in that bad comments are voted down now retweeted to more people.

I think for it to work people would have to start blocking more and using more mute words.

The thing where someone retweets something horrible because they disagree with it is so wrong and is what is being badly gamed.


Yes, that is a bizarre thing about Twitter. And it's a huge part of why I don't like it.

It's funny. For all that I support free speech, I don't have the patience to read much of it. So I end up gravitating to well moderated forums.




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