I barely ever see culture war content anymore despite being very online. I must be doing something right in my random acts of feed tuning. 🤔
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baseline trick is to mute/unfollow not the trolls and obvious shitstirrers or beef knights/mooks but the earnest ones who seem to actually care. Avoid the prey, predators and parasites cease to matter
Second trick is to only follow people whose eigentopics are not culture war
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both are posthoc explanations
earnestposters I unfollowed because they are boring
latter pattern emerged when I started following people who answered my idle questions, which tend to be random
people who share random info on twitter tend not to culture-war much
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I think a big mistake made by people who have a bad time on twitter is coming here to only plug into a narrow interest or two. Very fragile. Minimum number of interests you should bring here is 100.
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I think the twitter feed algorithm (it is at work even when set to ‘latest’) is actually far better than people give it credit for. While some people have targets on their backs they can’t help, most people unconsciously seek hell and blame the algorithm for bringing it to them
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Kinda feeling smug about being an aerospace engineer who likes aerospace content on twitter and *still* managing to almost completely miss the “Lockheed Martin” outrage cycle (which has nothing to do with aerospace) 😎
That is some good filter-fu
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