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What I dislike about Twitter lately: - overarching political propaganda - crypto bros - AI bros - profit chads - constant fighting over idiotic topics, some driven by Musk itself

What I care for when I open Twitter: - news - hearing from other people from the dev community

If Threads can deliver this, I will be hooked

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Threads need to realize the importance of the blue check and implement it. Prior to Musk, I would see a tweet, open the replies and look for the blue checks to see what "prominent" people were responding. Now that the blue check means nothing, that's impossible and you have to weed through all the content.

You can argue that's a good thing, that a person with 10 followers might be as interesting as someone with 100,000 followers, but it's not for me.

They are already doing it via Meta Verified, which is already a big step us vs Blue since they actually check your id

But you still have to pay don't you? I like verified users, but I also want to know who is prominent user. So maybe two badges? One just for verified ID and one for prominent user (the old blue check).

i look for the same things and i get that out of twitter, its pretty satisfying

you have to engage with what you want to see, if you join in arguments or constantly like posts of a political viewpoint then you'll never find peace

ie, look inward

Which means a lot will be censored, if they don’t censor you end up with the same convo people want to talk about in the current times

Remember when we used to call that filtering and it was a feature and not a con?

Not for actual censuring in cases where it’s demonstrably harmful - but I’m not required to give attention to someone’s opinion just cause they feel like blasting it into the void. Twitters gone too far the other way.

If we look at the current situation on Twitter, a lot of content that gets pushed by the algo is dumpster fire. Not sure how that benefits society

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