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Ask HN: Why are you on (or off) Twitter?

by samcgraw on 3/29/21, 2:57 AM with 5 comments

• by void_mint on 3/29/21, 4:26 AM

  Off. I realized most of the people doing the cool things, were not the people tweeting about the cool things. And the people that were tweeting about the cool things were mostly just building a personal brand.

  I miss Kelsey Hightower's cryptic "This is still too much work" tweets, and Scott Hanselman's escapades, but I do not miss the flaming and the virtue signaling and the constant doom notifications.

  Sometimes I'm concerned I'm missing what "everybody" (my twitter echochamber) is working on, or learning about, but I've kind of gotten to the point where I don't care.

• by giardini on 3/29/21, 3:15 AM

  It's dog slow POS for what it does. Twitter should be, at the core, static HTML. But it's so busy executing JavaScript that it forgets a human is waiting to see some text or look at an image.

• by ddingus on 3/29/21, 4:00 AM

  On at times. One of those is entertainment, and I sharply limit that. But yeah, sometimes juicy.

  Often, the entertainment is computer or tech related.

  Off otherwise.

• by gregjor on 3/29/21, 3:24 AM

  Off. Waste of time and attention.

• by andyxor on 3/29/21, 4:01 AM

  it has two great communities I love: researchers and conservatives (and sometimes they overlap!)