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Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
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You can check if twitter is silently oppressing your account here: https://taishin-miyamoto.com/ShadowBan/ Mine currently has "reply deboosting" applied. Twitter didn't notify me of this either. I had to actively hunt it down. And there's nothing I can do to change it. Such a shady company so far.
You can check if twitter is silently oppressing your account here: https://taishin-miyamoto.com/ShadowBan/ Mine currently has "reply deboosting" applied. Twitter didn't notify me of this either. I had to actively hunt it down. And there's nothing I can do to change it. Such a shady company so far.
I don't really love the notion of billionaires buying up media; but given how incredibly important twitter has become to media and its influence on democracy and politics, I think it's a huge improvement that a free speech advocate will be in charge at least. I don't buy that content "moderation" (ahem, or as it should be called, censorship) is desirable when a tech company can silence people that have legit-if-undes…
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It's useful as a framework for governments to prevent jailing people for critique, to prevent throwing reporters into jail for dissident and so forth. But as a private platform it simply cannot work nor will it ever work. It falls apart at scale because as a platform you MUST make a decision as to whom you decide to support or not. Some users will inevitably harass or stalk or make the most vile comments to other users and will chase off people. If you do nothing, then the most toxic users of your platform will run the asylum.
This was true of Usenet. This was true of IRC channels, forums, Digg and many more smaller sites. Sites like Parler, Gab and so forth pride themselves on being 'Free Speech' platforms but prove the dynamic I mention above.
The reality check is that people should learn from the past, but I have a feeling the cycle of people thinking free-er speech will solve the problem will continue into infinity. And I have a feeling the people intent on believing that they're free speech absolutists will never be in a position to learn this lesson.
I'm optimistic from a nihilistic point of view: for Twitter the only way is up, and yet even a complete failure would be a net improvement to the world. There's a laundry list of uncontroversial improvements he can make to the product itself. Twitter as a product is broken in so many ways. Musk is the kind of outcome-driven character to get things done. And it will be done in a way that does not directly conflict wit…