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Post by PragmaticPulp »

535188B17C93743 wrote: post #275
juancampa wrote: post #236

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Here's a tip on how to make the best out of Twitter: unfollow anyone that makes you feel that way. Think about it, it's not Twitter per se, it's the people you follow, and that's under your control.

Until they start suggesting friends of friend's tweets. Or random trending/suggested tweets. Or you might like your friend's tweets but get fed with all of their garbage "liked" content and can't filter that out.

A tip: This doesn’t seem to show up for me unless I scroll so long that Twitter runs out of things to show me.

If you’re seeing a lot of friends-of-friends content, you might be scrolling too long or not following enough people you actually want to hear from.

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Post by kevingadd »

throwaway2077 wrote: post #186
nafizh wrote: post #97

People love to bash Dorsey but he had more of a backbone than Zuckerberg in every possible way. And while the game is always about money, Dorsey did try to improve the eco-system in a principled way even if arguably he failed in many ways - this courage was probably there because he was a founder of the company. The new CEO will be more like Pichai at Google or Cook at Apple - only there to make money.

remarkably, those who bash him are the same people twitter has done everything to bend over backwards for. same on reddit, facebook, twitch, etc. people on the opposite side of the privileged class are barely allowed to exist on those platforms - only if they police their speech very carefully to avoid breaking a myriad of vague and unwritten rules, and even then they're still subject to being unpersoned for some per…

If you really want to post about how vaccines make your blood cells broadcast 5G radio waves, you can go make a Parler account regardless of whether you get "unpersoned" (?) by Twitter.

Twitter's rules enforcement is historically EXTREMELY casual, the only thing I can think of is that they are relatively consistent about punishing death threats regardless of context. Even then, they let some of that slide. Very often a rules violation just results in a tweet being deleted or marked with a disclaimer, not a ban - few services would treat rules violations that way.

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Post by closeparen »

handrous wrote: post #274
a4isms wrote: post #248

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“Rules for thee but not for me” is interesting when placed in juxtaposition with a famous quote from the software architect and composer Frank Wilhoit: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. That applies to no-moonlighting clauses, but also to no sexual harassment clauses,…

To be fair, it's not like we hide who the system's set up to serve. It's right there in the name. Capital - ism.

Managers and executives aren't capital. In fact their relationship with capital tends towards adversarial.

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Post by LegitShady »

mschuster91 wrote: post #122
bhouston wrote: post #41

Twitter under Jack Dorsey has been a huge cryptocurrency promotion engine. I wonder if that remains.

Other than adding mandatory 2FA and introducing a 24-hour time delay on account renames and 2 hours on profile name/image changes (which should be a given for any blue-check account), what else can Twitter realistically do given that the other side (crypto pumpers) has literally tons of money floating around?

Use some of the same AI they use to moderate other sorts of comments to moderate the crypto scammers.

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Post by marcinzm »

busterarm wrote: post #290
jcadam wrote: post #276

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I don't think it can be fixed. Social media in general is a cancer.

Social media can be fixed by legislating it out of existence. It doesn't even need a watchdog agency like the environment does.

Define social media? Does discord count? Does mastadon count? Do forums count? Does hacker news count? Stack overflow? Github?

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Post by eyelidlessness »

535188B17C93743 wrote: post #275
juancampa wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's a tip on how to make the best out of Twitter: unfollow anyone that makes you feel that way. Think about it, it's not Twitter per se, it's the people you follow, and that's under your control.

Until they start suggesting friends of friend's tweets. Or random trending/suggested tweets. Or you might like your friend's tweets but get fed with all of their garbage "liked" content and can't filter that out.

You can switch to the chronological timeline and it filters all of that out. The only “suggested” content is retweets and the usual ads. Historically Twitter was notorious for reverting this setting, but at least for the last year or so I haven’t had to reenable it.

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Post by ViViDboarder »

syshum wrote: post #244
afavour wrote: post #211

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I read it differently than "shaping public opinion". The reality is that social media (and Twitter especially) is toxic. That underlying toxicity comes from humans of course, but recommendation algorithms accelerate and highlight it because it leads to high "engagement", and thus more money. These sites already "guide" conversation, just using metrics that can end up being harmful. A social media CEO that's intereste…

The problem here is that "toxic" is subjective, what I find toxic and disagreeable may not be the same thing you find toxic and disagreeable. Take for example hot button issue of Gun ownership, I believe it an essential right and extension of self defense, others view any talk about guns as toxic that should be banned. Who's worldview should win? Mine, your's, Twitters? IMO platforms like twitter should not be making…

To not promote toxicity, one could just avoid amplifying anything that’s a hot button or divisive issue. However, incentives don’t align with that.

The key is the issue is the amplification. Promoting of content you’re not following in feeds.

Of course, completely changing it back to only content from those you follow in chronological order and allowing you to curate would solve that problem as well, but there’s no way they go back to that as there’s far less money involved.

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Post by giantrobot »

boringg wrote: post #90
nscalf wrote: post #75

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This is a pretty uninformed take. There are all sorts of projects made in crypto: collectibles, music, art, gaming, loans, mortgages, debit cards with rewards, social media, wifi networks, anti-fraud, food security, etc. And many projects have a large donation component to them.

Says the people who are downstream of the founders/traders of crypto but upstream the final bag holders. The game is - the more people/demand who come into the place, the greater the asset value. Earliest in benefit the most. Sure there are benefits from crypto (but those are mostly a distraction for its core use case and a way for murky individuals to validate investments to the real bagholders) but the costs and th…

> Says the people who are downstream of the founders/traders of crypto but upstream the final bag holders.

Look man, cryptocurrency isn't some kind of pyramid scheme! It's just a bisected cube!

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