Hacker News Reader

I joined Twitter for the curated news feed.

You can still set your feed to timeline so you don’t get anything the algo feeds you.

I’m staying; my feed is a great source of news and opinions from various prominent scientific, tech and hacking people.

This. I’ve been a happy Tweetbot user since it came out in 2011. The best (no, I mean it) feature that has made it worth paying for time and time again is that it’s a _chronological_ feed and not an algorithmic one. I see updates from people I follow. When there are no more updates, the feed ends. That’s it.

They’ve gotten way more aggressive, even in timeline. I see tons of trash from people I don’t follow.

I found most senior tech folks are gone or just tweets non-sense these days. 2012-2017 was a good curve, I think. Like I feel no one is actually give a shit about tech sanity anymore. It's all somewhat identity competition now. Tech brands and business, everyone stopped giving a shit about hacking.

Quality of ideas went down. Troglodyte fueled collapse.

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