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 I started following you when you answered some materials science question I tweeted
I don’t actually recall seeing culture war stuff from you in feed
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Oh good: I am never quite certain how broadly a given person defines “culture war”: I definitely have had my account described as ‘half woke shit, half interesting science stuff’ or similar language.
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I think the algorithm must filter more finely since it likely tracks what I actually interact with not just who

