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My selfish take on Twitter: the Discourse could stand to care a lot less, on the margin, about “free speech” and “bias in the algorithm” and a lot more about discovering all the amazing ways a public water cooler could be improved for more joy, more discovery, more connection etc

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Agaricus

@agaricus

Apr 27

My experience is that the personal value of Twitter depends on skill in curating follows. I think i've improved with practice. However, there's no easy way to REVIEW my actions, reflect on what I've done, and possibly accelerate my learning. It's all been intuitive.

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

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@agaricus

I think you're right, and the platform should do more to support this—but it's interesting how the timeline really does give me a context to review. If I see a few "meh" tweets from someone I followed on a whim, they get unfollowed! Not the sharpest feedback loop but not nothing.

4:20 AM · Apr 28, 2022TweetDeck

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I do that too. But I still find that a couple times a year I have to do a hard prune back pretty hard, not because I have too many "meh" accounts, but because my attention is being unhelpfully pulled in too many incoherent directions. Of course my interests...

Agaricus

@agaricus

Apr 28

...change over time, and deciding on accounts to follow turns out to be far more consequential than it may seem at the moment. Maybe even more important than "what book should I read" since it tends to stick for a while. What I'd like...

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