It’s nice to see a place where conservative ideas can be expressed without being buried. It makes me feel less alone.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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Which conservative ideas, though? It's fine to disagree on like tax policy, or food regulation, but hopefully you can understand why many people won't tolerate beliefs that actively harm others, even if you firmly hold those beliefs
If you learn how to curate your feed, it won't be an issue.
I don't see any of it really, my feed is all gay stuff lol
I'm still pissed at the way Reddit was celebrating Musk's takeover, as if it was some big loss to him. Oh boy, a billionaire lost some money that he would have wiped his ass with, this is great as long as the fascist doesn't turn the biggest social media platform into a fascist mouthpiece!
Allright knuckleheads, here's what you do:
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Follow people who's content you're interested in
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Browse Following and not For You
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That's litterally it
I get so peeved when people browse algorithmic feeds and then complain that they see bad content. You fools. You cretins. I'll have you know that i actually have a pleasant experience on Twitter AND THAT'S NOT A JOKE, i genuinely have a good time on a bad website purely because i stay away from the For You feed. It's literally that simple. The only time i get conservative propaganda is when someone i follow quote tweets it with a snarky response.
I've had someone assume i was a nazi because i'm still on Twitter and i got a little (too) mad at them because we clearly don't share the same reality. They browsed For You and quite rightfully left the site never to return, and they don't understand how i'm able to stay; no shit, i'm able to stay because i don't browse Following.
Now the thing is, this is how i've always used the internet, from the start i've built my follows list with this browsing habit in mind so i only follow like 200 people with the specific purpose of seeing their content; but for a lot of users, following is more like pressing "like" on a profile, and they end up following 5000 accounts. In that case you're gonna get way too much content sprayed at you and pruning your follows list is going to take forever. I don't know what to do in that situation tbh
Musk still forces his own tweets, his advertisers, and whatever else he chooses into your feed, even your "following" page. You can't block it.
*EDIT: maybe not anymore? See replies.
This is just a lie. Have him muted and never see his tweets.
Not a lie, it's how I remember it working (and complained about at the time) but it's entirely possible they changed things since I deleted.
Ads yes, everything else no. I haven't seen a musk tweet or any tweet from someone I don't follow that wasn't sponsored or an rt from someone I do follow at any point in the following tab.
Not all humans live in America. It is possible for people to use Twitter without seeing material related to your country's political shituation.
i kept using it for the few mildly high quality posts by queer people, but it feels like it almost stopped. might delete my account now
funnily enough, my twitter feed doesn't have any conservative media.
it is full of gay bara scalie porn, though.
Mine with a daily year progress, A high amount of suggested content (booo) and some random stuff.
I keep it only around for thr aformentioned daily yeer progress tweets.
For me it's Russian invasion of Ukraine. With a few local politicians doing stupid things mixed in.
I tell some people to KYS just so the website forces me into a ban for 6 days.
Its nice.
edit: The people I say this to are genuinely scum of the earth. Pedos, People that share animal abuse vids, and people that disrespect the current situation surrounding school shootings.
Sounds like a healthy use of your time
Which one? getting myself purposefully muted? I'd say it is yea. If extensions/willpower cant stop me from being sucked into this website then getting myself banned will fix that. So even if I go back to the site, I cant do anything. That way I can force myself into breaking from it/doing other things.
The only reason I got so caught up in using it was because of the election. I had never used it before then. For 2 weeks I would be on the site CONSTANTLY, responding to comments left to me just mere minutes ago. It was a habit that had gotten way out of control. So what better way to break this habit than me being forced into taking a break from it by catching a temp ban
You mean you tell them to KYS right?
Yes. Im not doing it out of pure rudeness, It's all towards people who either openly will share Pedophilic/Animal abuse content or people that will mock/turn school shootings into some kind of conspiracy theory. Those people fucking sicken me.
I installed a extension to block everyone with a checkmark after Elon introduced paying for them. My feed has even less shitters then before its amazing. If I ever want to add more I just go to any AOC tweet and let the extension work.
They would need to be force feeding me conservative content in order for me to be able to answer the question. They're not and never have been. Same applies to ads.
I won’t even click on Twitter links, let alone actively visit. You should do the same.
That's the neat part, I'm not.
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