Comment by prepend
2 years ago
I’ve friends say this but I haven’t figured out how to make it work. It takes so much time to sort and filter and there’s no way to get a proper “feed” without constantly scrolling through crap that’s injected.
I asked a friend to show me and he walked me through their workflow and it boiled down to “spend hours on twitter everyday and some decent percent is manually filtering.”
HN has an easy interface -front page. I can hide things I’ve read and I don’t see them again, or I can leave them to read later. And comments are threaded. Twitter doesn’t seem to have these things.
It's kind of like that one friend who will pontificate on the merits of smoked cinnamon sticks, bitters, candied pecans, and the $10,000 worth of liquor in their living room bar - they've fooled themselves into thinking they're <drinking/using twitter> responsibly and nobly, but it's really just a bunch of mental gymnastics to justify doing <unhealthy thing which feels good>.