This might be a shot in the dark, but: is there a Twitter "frontend"* that is as clean/compact as HN or even old.reddit? I get it was made with phones in mind, and that its primary use case is real-time news and short messages from influencers, but, as someone who primarily consumes social media on a desktop and whose interactions with the platform consist of reading tweets from niche accounts, i've found the way Twitter displays conversations to be -much- worse than what we have here on HN.
*I use "frontend" quite liberally here, i mean, honestly maybe a browser plugin that shrinks a tweet to half its size, indents replies much like HN comments are indented, and loads more tweets in a single page, maybe that would be enough to make Twitter 90% more pleasant to use.
There certainly are. I quickly wrote one 'mvp' for myself and it is the primary way I interact with twitter since several years, but it does the bare minimum I need and I never had time to clean it up and publish it (also I do not know whether anyone would pay for a cleaned up, purely chronological twitter feed with configurable filters?)
Tweetdeck offers a great interface and it's also an official client run by Twitter. Better information density. I have 20+ different columns with different focuses or "priorities".
*I use "frontend" quite liberally here, i mean, honestly maybe a browser plugin that shrinks a tweet to half its size, indents replies much like HN comments are indented, and loads more tweets in a single page, maybe that would be enough to make Twitter 90% more pleasant to use.