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Originally Posted by Diesel

Twitter was always a social cesspool though.

of course, but now it's 100x the cesspool with no adults in charge.

the problem is that there is no other text-based microblogging platform like this right now, and everyone in the public square is currently in it.

i used it like the old rss feeds to hear from serious sources, and it was good in this form.

during brexit, for example, instead of waiting for tv or newspapers to report things hours later i would follow https://twitter.com/houseofcommons

(and labourwhips and so forth)

anyway of course you can go even deeper and watch stuff happen live right here: https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Commons but now it becomes a collection of websites instead of a centralized funnel.

...

thinking this through out loud, i think the way to go for me is to start collecting bookmarks. but see, bookmarks don't have push notifications, so now i have to start scanning. unless of course i can find a script that scans for me... but it's still not a network.