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Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by porcoda »

MarcScott wrote: post #178

Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest. I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you? Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.

The problem is when you follow people for topic X and then they decide to use their audience to talk about unrelated topic Y. I hate that. If I follow someone because they talk about some tech topic, I really could care less what their opinion is on some social or political topic. I found heavy handed use of muted keywords and muting people helps A LOT.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by scoot »

abnry wrote: post #631

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…

Shut down

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by ikt »

13415 wrote: post #758
abnry wrote: post #631

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…

I've tried Twitter recently for the first time to get more recent information about the Ukraine war. Maybe long-term twitter users see it differently because they've fine-tuned it and got used to it, but to me Twitter looks like a horrible and awful medium. I just can't see any purpose for it. People on Twitter post opinions and are subsequently mocked and insulted by other people who also value their opinions above…

> Then I tried the fediverse, and it was worse, except that it was much weirder overall and posts mostly concerned extreme fringe topics and opinions.

I'm on fosstodon.org and don't really see this, I get presented with mainly FOSS related opinions/news/tech and cat pictures, I'm very happy with it.

I can't stand twitter which appears to want to bombard me with politics, popular culture and garbage.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by tehwebguy »

thomasahle wrote: post #889
abnry wrote: post #631

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…

- Down voting button, this allows people to express disagreement without feeding the trolls and deranging the conversation. - More visibility to smaller tweeters. My feed is full of boring/dumb comments from "big tweeters" that get thousands of likes because of their large number of followers. Smart tweets from upstarts often get little to no viewings.

If downvoting is done reddit style where it buries posts I suppose that would be good but also open the door for great abuse.

If it’s done YouTube style (thumbs down button) it just counts as engagement and promotes the post but without any visibility as to why.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by tekknik »

lucius_verus wrote: post #646
altacc wrote: post #41

He's already said that he'd follow all local laws so it would be interesting to see if he can find the elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to shout down those not our your "side". Personally my reservations are because I think running a social media site is a lot about understanding people and defining a healthy culture for your elusive…

The bit about "following the law" was so poorly thought out. Musk's comments at TED made it seem like he both: (1) confused Bill of Rights guarantee that the government won't censor speech with some law that prohibits private companies from moderating speech on their platforms (not a thing) (2) failed to consider what it means to "follow the law" when your platform operates in multiple countries with incompatible law…

How about we start with not banning US politicians?

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by tehwebguy »

fortran77 wrote: post #888
abnry wrote: post #631

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…

When twitter started taking the blue checkmark away from people as "punishment" I saw that as nonsensical. The blue check was to confirm the account was real, and not an imposture. It wasn't supposed to be a signal of "quality." The first person I remember they took the checkmark from was Milo Yiannopoulos. I still don't understand the reasoning for this. https://www.fastcompany.com/40511058/most-twitter-execs-didn..…

What a weird article, wonder why they don’t mention the other big thing about him from 2017?

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

hk__2 wrote: post #743
abnry wrote: post #631

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…

> Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol Those are not mutually exclusive. I may be interested to know that @emmanuelmacron and @emmanuel_macron are both real persons but I’d also want to know that @emmanuelmacron is the famous one while the other is just an homonyme. Blue Check symbols are also a lot useful to distinguish real brand accounts from fake ones…

Yishan says,

>I'm now going to reveal the institutional bias of every large social network (i.e. FB, Twitter, Reddit):

>Are you ready?

>Here it is...

>They would like you (the users) to stop squabbling over stupid shit and causing drama so that they can spend their time writing more features and not have to adjudicate your stupid little fights.

>That's all.

Yeah, as if 'users squabbling over stupid shit and causing drama' did not result in higher engagement rates and these platforms did not exploit that for their own gains.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by alephnan »

memish wrote: post #877

It's telling that no one is worried about being censored by Elon. They're worried about Elon not censoring others.

This is the same crowd who is criticizing China’s censorship of media surrounding Shanghai lockdowns, and being self congratulatory of America / “ “democracy’s” success of coronavirus.
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