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Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by r721 »

throw0101a wrote: post #37
hourago wrote: post #4

> Our current climate of political polarization makes it easy to think itʻs about the content of the speech, or hate speech, or misinformation, or censorship, or etc etc. Are we sure that it is not the other way around? Didn't social platforms created or increased polarization? I always see this comments from social platforms that take as fact that society is polarized and they work hard to fix it, when I believe tha…

> Are we sure that it is not the other way around? Didn't social platforms created or increased polarization? The process of polarization (in the US) started decades ago: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We%27re_Polarized In fact it seems that people were always polarized, it's just that the political parties (R & D in the US) didn't really bother sorting themselves on topics until the 1960s: even in the 1970s and…

Scott Alexander's review is worth reading to get a summary of this book: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-why-were-p...

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by nfin »

danwee wrote: post #31
lm28469 wrote: post #11

Reading these threads on twitter is like listening to a friend having a bad mdma trip replaying his whole emotional life to you in a semi incoherent diarrhea like stream of thoughts Please write a book, or at the very least an article... posting on twitter is like writing something on a piece of paper, showing it to your best friend and worst enemy before throwing it in the trash

I gave up after the 3rd tweet in the thread. I can't understand why Twitter threads are a thing.

my guess is that people can like () individual posts.

The positive of that is:

a) possibility to like () just one post, or 2, 3… depending of who good the thread is

b) the fine granular way to like () gives the algorithm way better possibilities to whom to show a thread and even better, to first show just one intereting post out of that thread (also people can mores easily quote or retweet individual parts of a thread)

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by jefftk »

ramblerman wrote: post #19

Did he begin answering the question, drop some big philosophical terms, and then just drift off into here is what I think we should do about climate change in 4 steps...?

He goes back to the main topic after a few tweets on his current climate work. It's actually a super long thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1586955288061452289.html

(But I agree this is weird)

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by permo-w »

ramblerman wrote: post #19

Did he begin answering the question, drop some big philosophical terms, and then just drift off into here is what I think we should do about climate change in 4 steps...?

he does come back to the point after his little side-piece about trees, but after a while I didn't feel he was actually providing any valuable information, so I stopped reading

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by polytely »

lm28469 wrote: post #50
polytely wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never understood this, it's just reading: you start at the beginning of tweet, you read it, then go to the next tweet and read it. How is that different from reading paragraphs?

idk man Maybe we could put more Words in a single Please visit my new website and subscribe to my podcast Line so it would be More readable random user comment: yes you're right mark that would be better and much more user friendly _ insert latest Musk schizophrenic rant_ Ah and I forgot the "sign up to read the rest" pop up that seemingly appears at random interval

are you reading on the computer? maybe thats the disconnect. for me each tweet has around 4 lines of text.

so it reads more like the post you are reading now. where each tweet is a decent chunk of text.

making the reading experience only marginally worse than reading something on hacker news.

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