I fixed my twitter feed by unfollowing anyone the first time something they did resulted in me being upset. Even if it was a like. It's just not worth it. For about a year or two my feed was great.

Then the topics started coming in. First it was infosec and cybersecurity and they were fine for a bit so I tolerated it. But then it turned into just a bunch of hot women saying basically nothing. If before it was some random person talking about finding a bug in X with a fuzzer, next it was someone talking about completely non-technical things like graduating from a university and starting a career in cybersecurity. Later it of course turned into culture war nonsense. So I unsubscribed. I could reasonably see this being a foreign influence campaign it was such an obvious slide from sometimes useful to total nonsense.

Then Twitter started flooding my account with topics and "based on your interests" and of course the feed turned to garbage again and I had to manually unsubscribe from all of them.

Twitter. Please. I'm begging you. I follow arms control people, software people, and government accounts. I've got this figured out. Please leave me alone I was happy.

Edit:

I forgot about the inability to turn of "[Somebody you follow] follows" tweets. Can I disable these? Doesn't appear like I can.

I have found that the three best ways to use twitter are: - use Tweetbot or Twitterrific - subscribe to the feed in NewsBlur - use nitter.net

In other words, don’t use twitter’s own website or app.

If you're on iOS/macOS, the new, open-source NetNewsWire[0] supports adding your whole follow feed, individual user feeds, mentions, and searches on specific terms.

https://netnewswire.com

https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire