The new silent majority: People who don't tweet
I tried being a Twitter user for a bit last year, mostly because a lot of engineers I admire use it to communicate about interesting topics and also their work. But after a while, I realized even <i>they</i> will pollute my feed with politically divisive topics, whether it be from them retweeting something, or liking a tweet, or even entering into the fray themselves -- Twitter will <i>find</i> a way to get me to see it. For a while, I resolved &quot;OK, if anyone retweets this stuff, I will simply unfollow them&quot; but eventually this felt self-defeating.<p>I know a lot of folks in my field side by the stance that <i>everything</i> is political, even code. Call me irresponsible, but I&#x27;ve honestly led a much happier and stress-free life living in the fantasy world where that is not the case, and I can enjoy my hobby in open-source without Github issues becoming a shouting match that spans 200 comments from people who aren&#x27;t even invested in the codebase.<p>EDIT: typos