PSA: if you aggressively mute everything and everyone involved in the culture war, this can be your experience of twitter too. (C.A.R. Hoare is a great pioneering computer scientist, inventor of Quicksort and CSP.)https://twitter.com/_awbery_/status/1045944717777743873 …
Yes… it’s a tricky balance, and my original tweet was too confidently positive. OTOH, lots of people don’t know they can mute, so maybe it’s useful to alert them to the possibility.
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It's also worth bearing in mind that not engaging with a topic on Twitter is not the same as opting out of that topic, it's choosing to not make Twitter a battlefield on which you fight that particular war (a battlefield that has not historically proven to be very useful IMO)
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Twitter is fundamentally a bad place to argue, and a mediocre space to have in depth discussions, but a very good place to emote, which means that for difficult subjects the cost of participating in it on here can very rapidly outstrip the benefit.
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