Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

Post by darrenf » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:52 PM UTC

Akronymus wrote: post #72

nfin wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 threa…

Why are you adding () after "like"? Havent seen that convention before, so I am unaware of the meaning.

Post by luuuzeta » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

dariusj18 wrote: post #83

Does anyone else think it's brilliant that he put advertisements inside his own thread?

Post by dingaling » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:55 PM UTC

Karawebnetwork wrote: post #82

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

Imagine it is a text and you can mark any paragraph. You can save that paragraph, like it, or even reply to it. So the interaction can grow like tentacles (edit: or rather like a tree). Right now, I could make a comment on either your first or second paragraph, or on your entire comment. However, there is no way to determine which category my reply falls into until you have read it entirely. On a platform like Twitte…

Post by toqy » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:56 PM UTC

nradov wrote: post #22

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…

Real society is not that polarized. If you talk to real people they mostly have moderate political opinions. But they don't tweet about politics. Twitter is not a real place.

Post by mikeryan » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:58 PM UTC

heed wrote: post #39

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

What got me was him weaving in (2-3 times) self promotion tweets of some tree planting company he funds/founded(?). He basically personally embedded ads into his thread, which is actually kind of smart I suppose, but very confusing as a reader.