99% of discourse would be improved if people went on twitter and followed literally anyone who's not one of the top 50 most well known posters in whatever area they're talking about
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"media is all journos doing irony jokes at each other" yeah if you only follow like mike isaac or whoever there's literally thousands of reporters who only post articles about cool shit. same for tech we all need to unfollow fucking paul graham and find someone making video games
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obviously people are influential for good reason but the magic of this website is that you don't have to only listen to the influential people! get some random fish scientists and afghanistan reporters and literary translators on ur feed it keeps u sane
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Have been on an unfollow streak. I think it naturally happens as people over optimize on what made them popular and become vapid. Need regular purges to keep things fresh.
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Usually this happens when things become totally unbearable and people flee to a new social network. Quora was pretty nice in the beginning. Twitter is beginning to stagnate.
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"someone making games"
@nova_elric@hell0jed are both small accts and goodThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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My main issue with
@paulg is he lured me into Common Lisp then turned his back and shat upon the community (newbies should go use Clojure now, he says). That, after he made his seed fortune on the back of CL (a free implementation no less).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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FWIW - it's not much better over here on Video Games Twitter.
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It's sexual misconduct and death threats all the way down.
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