Ask HN: Is Twitter unbearable for anyone now?

Twitter has always been unbearable for me. I got a look at it in 2008, decided it was the men's room wall of the internet, and haven't been back since.

Use an adblocker, and only use Twitter on desktop. Like you said, it's become more and more unbearable

Just switch to "Latest tweets" (chronological feed), creating a list of all users you follow is also a good solution.

Don't even look at the main page. Use lists and read them preferably with tweetdeck.twitter.com.

Using "Latest Tweets", I've not noticed any change in the last few months.

If you are looking for a solution: Don't follow anyone, use lists.

You can pin 5 lists to the main page, which is enough for my main interests, and I use the lists page for niche ones.

I use their Lists feature. Once the initial work is put in of curating high signal useful people to follow, you can relax. I never look at my main feed as it’s full of noise and as you said, full of self-styled gurus with annoying threads. Some people really need to start blogging instead of creating clickbait threads.

Nope, I think it’s great!

What ruined Twitter for me was spaces and communities. Communities was way worse because the spam is unbearable. I literally saw a nude blogpost link on the Apple community and stayed there for days.

Use Tweetdeck. That way you will have at least one lane that is your feed in cronological format.

I noticed that too, and fixed it by clicking the triple-dot icon on suggested tweets, then choosing “don’t show me (this category).” After doing that a few times, they all went away.

This was on the iOS app.

I started using a browser extension to mitigate this, and hide all the fluff like trending topics and algorithmically recommended tweets. Called 'Tweak New Twitter'.

I hate the UX of Twitter threads. There’s far too much non-content (navigation, buttons etc) interrupting the flow of the content for what really should be a long-form post on a blog or HN or what have you. (edit: typo)

Use Twitter lists. Put accounts you want to follow into those lists and never deal with ads or "suggested" tweets again. Plus, those tweets will be sorted chronologically.

As someone who likes to keep in check what’s going on back home while being permanently away from it, I HATE how twitter trends are hijacked by political parties to shit on the other parties. There trends are purely dogshit and nothing more than memes. There is no value I get from the trending section. Anything important is lost in the noise. I tried to switch to Worldwide trends I remember twitter used to have but got rid of it for some reason.

Apart from getting tweets I really don't care about in my feed, I think the overall quality of tweets really decreased in the past months, especially in the dev/SaaS entrepreneurs/Indie hackers space. My feed is full of startup memes or bogus questions like "Are you also drinking coffee right now?". And these kind of tweets are also created by well known people with lots of followers who usually publish quality content. Which means that creating a list would solve nothing. I understand they have to create a community, but come on, it's just noise.

I only get tweets from people I follow

How are you getting them from people you don't?

I also curate my follows pretty carefully (albeit ... they're all over the place (technically, socially, philosophically, religiously, etc)), and mostly interact through Tweetdeck, Notifications, and Lists

Its been unbearable for me for 5+ years. Its dns black-holed on all my networks.