We're blocking twitter at our house

[usonian]

4. Try getting your news from aggregators on the web.

I use DU and Hacker News (cuz I am a tech head) but you might consider DU and one or two others.

I visit twitter only when I click or press a twitter link by accident!

And I am fully informed (maybe too informed). I share the best links I find,

Some ideas are here. YMMV. This is not an endorsement. Other lists were pretty awful by comparison.

https://themeisle.com/blog/news-aggregator-websites-examples/

Or you might choose Fark.
https://fark.com

Snide beats outright lies. (screenshot)



Few people know how to block sites in their routers, computer firewalls, DNS provider (you might try listing twitter in your DNS provider’s “adult site” list?) or even ad-blocker lists. I wish there were a simpler answer that the unsophisticated user could apply. I suspect that for most, asking their internet provider about “parental controls” might lead to a way to block “obscene” sites like twitter.


As for twitter links, I agree and have urged people to post screenshots. Unfortunately, DU’s images must be posted offsite and that’s a layer of complexity that most have trouble with.