Never seen a person say "leave me tagged!"
Conversely, "UNTAG ME OR I BLOCK," is pretty common.
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yeah, after the first notification or two, they can always scroll down the replies
but if they stay tagged, they don't get a choice in receiving notifications
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It would be so simple if Twitter did the bare minimum of UI design and left functions like this *optional*.
I just can't fathom the way they design even the simplest interactions. So many senseless choices that don't make sense even in terms of dark patterns. They're just bad.
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Like I can understand why a clickfarm wants to show me 50 different ads dancing around the screen.
I can't understand why Twitter wants their notification system to be so ponderous. It doesn't serve any useful function to them.
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I wonder if it's one of those monoliths of technical debt. Like it's so deeply embedded and tightly coupled that changing it would be less of a redesign and more of a complete overhaul touching myriad other parts of the site
(ofc, if it's not... then Twitter, why??)
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probably some % of those conversations end up spiralling into conflict bombs, which is massive engagement, which pushes up all the metrics
roouughhhlyy similar to how conspiracy vids, hate vids etc get boosted on youtube
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that's very intuitive. can't tell if confirmation bias but I think you're spot-on
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E.g. I unfollowed almost every politics-and-news-only account I used to follow.
If I switch away from chronological timeline, I get almost nothing else than global politics and cat memes filtering through.
The UI stuff on the other hand makes a lot of people use Twitter *less*.
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That's interesting -- I switched back to Home feed instead of chrono because it surfaced more relevant stuff.
re: UI, yeah I imagine if it was improved, I'd spend even *more* time on here, agreed
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Interesting. I tried it just now because Twitter always switches it on when you change devices or whatnot, but it was still the same.
Maybe a function of what sort of stuff we engage with. I am definitely drawn into some morasses against my better judgement.
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Ah I see. Yes, I can see the possibility of those interactions driving Twitter's algorithm wrt to your timeline.
Sometimes engaging in the discourse is authentic self-expression. Better to do so and be authentic, or repress? I do the latter, so I'm still questioning
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Yes, but I try to limit my observations to things that aren't completely obvious to those who agree with me, or completely disagreeable to those who don't.
There is a point at which contribution just means adding to the cacophony, and that seems to occur a lot with politics.
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