In my experience, if I look at the Twitter account of someone I respect, there’s a 70–90% chance that Twitter turns them into a sort of Mr. Hyde self who’s angrier, less thoughtful, and generally much worse epistemically. I’ve noticed this tendency in myself as well; historically I tried pretty hard to avoid writing bad tweets, and avoid reading low-quality Twitter accounts, but I don’t think I succeeded, and recently I gave up and just blocked Twitter using LeechBlock.
I’m sad about this because I think Twitter could be really good, and there’s a lot of good stuff on it, but there’s too much bad stuff.
In my experience, if I look at the Twitter account of someone I respect, there’s a 70–90% chance that Twitter turns them into a sort of Mr. Hyde self who’s angrier, less thoughtful, and generally much worse epistemically. I’ve noticed this tendency in myself as well; historically I tried pretty hard to avoid writing bad tweets, and avoid reading low-quality Twitter accounts, but I don’t think I succeeded, and recently I gave up and just blocked Twitter using LeechBlock.
I’m sad about this because I think Twitter could be really good, and there’s a lot of good stuff on it, but there’s too much bad stuff.