My thoughts on Twitter

  • justhach@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yep, the centralizing of announcements is a bigger issue than link aggregation.

    I work in pest control and want to follow several industry experts and guess what? They only use twitter to disseminate information because they’re mostly academic and don’t follow too much online drama.

    I want to continue following them, but need to create a Twitter account to do so since Musk’s new ideas broke the website recently and you can no longer lurk without an account.

    So I am torn between trying to follow experts and improve myself as a professional, or cut myself off from that source of information in order to try and reduce the amount of traffic that twitter gets.

    • Azzu@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I would suggest Nitter to you, and then subscribe to its RSS feeds.