I'm sure the tiny cross-section of people who are active Twitter users will always find a place to fight online. But the rest of us might want to stop amplifying their idiotic whining because without that amplification, it's just another internet forum cesspool. A YouTube comment section with the occasional celebrity.
Tell HN: The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve
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Re: Tell HN: The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
> disagreeing but supporting that someone should be able voice their opinion anyway It's not just "disagreement" but the death threats, slurs, allegations of "grooming", racism, libel, and simple fraud (especially involving cryptocurrency). Heck, Musk himself posted (and deleted shortly afterwards) libel about Pete Pelosi.
If it isn't a crime or spam then it is in fact disagreement. There is no inherent different from calling someone a "racist" or "nazi" to calling someone a "groomer". On Twitter these "slurs" are used by different sides (bubbles) but other than that there is no difference. It might be a baseless allegation or there could be more to it but either way it is clearly an opinion and disagreeing is fine no need to prevent a…
> But whatever it was, why does it bother you? What exactly is so horrible about posting something "wrong" and deleting it?
It wasn't just "wrong", it was a propaganda article designed to dismiss a right-wing terrorist attack that almost killed the husband of the third highest ranking official in the country by painting the attack as a "false flag" designed to cover up homosexual infidelity. And Musk is the richest man in the world with enormous, unimaginable reach and influence. For better or worse, the more power you have, the more social obligation you have to use that power responsibly, and that includes understanding how your words will affect the thoughts and actions of others. Musk is under fire because he refuses to use his power responsibly.
Re: Tell HN: The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Left-wing twitter is calling everyone nazis and right-wing twitter is calling everyone pedophiles. Enjoy the nuanced discussion.
Godwin’s law is alive and well. But apparently updated for the current GOP with pedophiles!
Well sometimes they call them Nazi pedophiles, so maybe it's already covered with no update needed?
Re: Tell HN: The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 3. Somebody I don't follow accusing another person I don't follow of being a nazi. I cannot believe how much of Twitter is exactly this.
Left-wing twitter is calling everyone nazis and right-wing twitter is calling everyone pedophiles. Enjoy the nuanced discussion.
Twitter has conversational snap-to-grid.
Re: Tell HN: The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 3. Somebody I don't follow accusing another person I don't follow of being a nazi. I cannot believe how much of Twitter is exactly this.
Left-wing twitter is calling everyone nazis and right-wing twitter is calling everyone pedophiles. Enjoy the nuanced discussion.
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Re: Tell HN: The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve
#186This feels a bit like there's fire in the house and instead of discussing how to improve fire extinguisher design, now we're talking about how catching fire is innate to the materials the house is made of and that we should focus on how we can build a house to take into account how fires start based on human behaviour.
In both analogies, the house is still on fire.
Re: Tell HN: The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve
#187It is definitely a technical problem to solve, they foster this kind of behavior because of algo design to optimize add sales. Even just not having add sales would make internet a better place. Also, you can avoid all of the problems of OP on twitter by just unfollowing these kinds of people and consume content that's actually interesting not just a reaction to US local politics.
Re: Tell HN: The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve
#188I used to agree with you until I created a new Twitter account from scratch. I'm not American and I specifically put non-political things in my interests. Yet, the second I signed up I got the following: 1. A notification about a smug reply a rando made to a Republican Congressman. 2. Posts from a meme page with a Pepe the frog avatar showing homeless people fighting in San Francisco. 3. Somebody I don't follow accus…
It's unfortunate that Twitter primarily only has 280 characters of text to infer intent and sentiment. AI has overfit engagement around hate and polarizing text.
TikTok, and really any video-content feed, noe has deep AI signals to infer a person's true hobbies and interests.
Re: Tell HN: The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you use the time based fed or the default timeline feed? I use only the time based feed, and I read on my tablet zoomed into the middle third of the screen so I don’t really see trending or whatever. I do follow a lot more people than you, but I agree when that is all you see, it is like a allow listed Reddit, pretty easy to make an interest and entertaining content feed.
Use Firefox and you can install ublock origin, then zap the trending section with the element picker.
The Firefox add-on "Better Twitter" has options to hide promoted tweets, retweets, tweets liked by others, “Trends for you”, “Who to follow”, and more. Twitter is pretty unusable in a web browser without this add-on.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-twitte...
Re: Tell HN: The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looking at my feed it's all accounts I follow (and people they retweet). No politics except for the few politics accounts I've chosen to follow. No toxicity except when I look for it. As far as I can tell people are either exaggerating their experience or bad at curating since I doubt I'm getting a special version of their product.
Twitter literally interrupts the normal feed with content you haven't chosen. Here, I'll load https://twitter.com to see: 1. dog pic from someone I follow 2. ad ("Promoted") 3. Steve Martin playing a banjo while dressed as a penguin (I follow him) 4. a tweet from an account I don't follow, but a friend liked it 5. a tweet from an account a friend follows, but I don't 6. a tweet from an account a friend follows, but I…
Check out the Firefox add-on "Better Twitter". It has options to hide promoted tweets, retweets, tweets liked by others, “Trends for you”, “Who to follow”, and more. Twitter is pretty unusable in a web browser without this add-on.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-twitte...