{"id":8836,"date":"2023-01-19T13:41:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T11:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=8836"},"modified":"2023-01-19T13:41:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T11:41:39","slug":"a-short-twitter-detox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/a-short-twitter-detox\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short Twitter Detox"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p>I took a short twitter detox for two days. For two days I didn&#8217;t look at tweets, replies and more. For two days if I wanted to rant I couldn&#8217;t. For two days I couldn&#8217;t see replies. For two days I couldn&#8217;t read people complain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is good to take a break from twitter sometimes. I don&#8217;t believe in social media addiction. Social media is a conversation. If you can get addicted to having conversations then the world is messed up. Twitter is a social network, not an addiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What triggered me to take a twitter break, aside from the ownership change and the negativity I see on a daily basis, is the inability to change from the &#8220;home&#8221; feed. Until recently we could swap between algorithm driven timelines and chronological ones. The ability to switch between both has been made much harder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter is making the same mistake as Facebook did, which Facebook then did to Instagram. It decided that Twitter will now be a Right leaning tool for propaganda and disinformation, rather than a chronological timeline of tweets by friends and friends of friends. It will throw in sponsored content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And Finally<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can get Twitter Blue for 8-11 USD per month, to get the blue tick, or you can get WordPress Premium for 8 dollars a month, if you pay for the year in advance. This allows you to monetise your content and more. It also gives you full acess to a blogging platform, rather than simple microblogging. For four dollars per month you get the personal option, and you can get a personal blog. There are cheaper options. The point is that 8 USD per month for a product like Twitter is extortion, especially given the volatility of the site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mastodon is also an option, that is free\/donation based depending on whether you choose an existing server, implement your own, and whether enough donations have been made to be sustainable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>I took a short twitter detox for two days. For two days I didn&#8217;t look at tweets, replies and more. For two days if I wanted to rant I couldn&#8217;t. For two days I couldn&#8217;t see replies. For two days I couldn&#8217;t read people complain. It is good to take a break from twitter sometimes. 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