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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Yes. I am constantly mystified people don’t realize this even after a decade on this site. The only big accounts I follow in spite of that, I consider bigness and blueticks a negative signal.
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like personally i love mike etc but obviously people with 100k+ followers are not representative of any field lol twitter rewards being funny and if you want funny it's easy to find but if you don't like it then don't follow those people it's literally so easy
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not to mention that a lot of people are influential for BAD reason
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I keep trying to tell people Twitter is actually good while gesturing vaguely at the fish scientists
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I’m unfollowing these kinds of people because the algorithm will push their tweets to me anyways. If it’s good I’ll hear about it
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