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I would say that I'm starting to remember the reasons why I originally abandoned Twitter in the first place, but that would be a lie. I actually started to remember that shit within five minutes or so of coming back in March or whenever. ¬_¬
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 24, 2021
Well, no, not even that is entirely accurate. I figured even *before* I started paying attention to Twitter again that it would still be a cesspool, but I was hoping that with Trump gone, it wouldn't be quite as *much* of a cesspool. Apparently I was incorrect in that assessment.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 24, 2021
I did a severe culling of my Following list shortly after I came back and started using Twitter again. I think I might need to do that again at some point in the rather near future.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 24, 2021
Either that or just start wholesale muting words and phrases like "Trump" and "Republican" and "GOP" and other such related horseshit. :/
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 24, 2021
Okay, just put a 30 day ban on the above and a bunch more and will add even more as I see it. Let's see if this improves my Twitter user experience.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 24, 2021
Won't stop me from seeing and most likely tweeting about similar dumbshit via sources outside of Twitter, mind you, but it's still a start, at least.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 24, 2021
Another downside: it doesn't do shit about screengrab "retweets" with snarky one-liners attached.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 25, 2021
In any case, e.g., I muted "Donald Trump." Yet I'm still seeing screengrabs of whatever dumbfuckery was shat out onto "The Desk of Donald Trump," with something like "yep, still a dumbass" or whatever attached. The mute filter won't touch that, unfortunately, which is irritating.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 25, 2021
It's like... yes, I completely agree... but there's nothing I can do about it, and, for the next 30 days at least, I'd just rather not see it at all. I mean, I could unfollow the "offender," I guess, but that feels like trying to kill dungflies with an assault rifle or something.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 25, 2021
Or... I could just go back to not using Twitter again at all, I suppose (which I have to admit is increasingly tempting). *shrug*
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 25, 2021
There's good stuff on Twitter, definitely. It just sometimes feels like having to wade neck-deep through pisswater to get to it, though. And... with living in The South™ I see/hear enough of that kind of crap IRL; I just don't want to see so much of it on Twitter on top of that.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 25, 2021
Installing a Firefox add-on to hide the sidebar and all that "trending" crap has helped some, as well. The vast majority of that was either political stuff, which is never not annoying, or sports/celebrity crap that I don't care about in the first place.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 25, 2021
Anyway, I'm just ranting. Like... ranting *explicitly* about the fact that I don't want to just be ranting about stupid, enraging stuff all the time, which is like... okay. I'm done, for now.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 25, 2021
And now I have a massive headache and will be returning to bed for at least a few hours.
