People needed a new twitter because they hate Elon, which is just another fad. They eventually learn to ignore his antics and just enjoy everyone else’s tweets. They always come back. Just check out Threads timing, it coincides with max Elon hate, can’t be more clear.
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#12Wow if I didn’t use the app every day I’d stay totally clear of it after reading these quotes right from the beginning of the article. This really doesn’t represent my experience at all. Am I alone or has the experience actually improved? I don’t follow people who are toxic because I don’t enjoy their content. It’s mostly software engineers and the #buildinpublic community and it’s a beautiful place with them. What h…
If you like drama that's what you'll get. I actively unfollow people I like if their tweets are too much about politics etc. Wish there was a better way of filtering individual tweets rather than people, but basically Twitter/X is completely what you make of it.
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#13Just use Mastodon (?).
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#14Wow if I didn’t use the app every day I’d stay totally clear of it after reading these quotes right from the beginning of the article. This really doesn’t represent my experience at all. Am I alone or has the experience actually improved? I don’t follow people who are toxic because I don’t enjoy their content. It’s mostly software engineers and the #buildinpublic community and it’s a beautiful place with them. What h…
Not sure about the downvotes. I kind of agree that the platform has cleaned up in the past few months. It feels more generic, clean and flat than before but also less trolly. Better and worse depend on your tastes, but I don’t think too much has been lost in the past 6 months.
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#15Wow if I didn’t use the app every day I’d stay totally clear of it after reading these quotes right from the beginning of the article. This really doesn’t represent my experience at all. Am I alone or has the experience actually improved? I don’t follow people who are toxic because I don’t enjoy their content. It’s mostly software engineers and the #buildinpublic community and it’s a beautiful place with them. What h…
Removing verification was a major decline in usability. Verified accounts were good to know that you'd found the correct account for an organization or person you were looking for, but that's gone now. Verification was also a good first approximation that the account is at least somewhat notable, and not just some random online person, but that's gone now, too. With verification, Twitter used to be a moderately trust…
I agree that 'real' verification was useful, but on the other hand removing it had the nice side-effect of 'breaking the spell' of twitter's imagined importance. People take it way less seriously now which I think is positive.
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#16Wow if I didn’t use the app every day I’d stay totally clear of it after reading these quotes right from the beginning of the article. This really doesn’t represent my experience at all. Am I alone or has the experience actually improved? I don’t follow people who are toxic because I don’t enjoy their content. It’s mostly software engineers and the #buildinpublic community and it’s a beautiful place with them. What h…
Twitter is great as long as you aren't following political accounts. I only follow the content creators I enjoy related to my hobbies, and unfollow anyone who tends to get into political slapfights too often.
That's been part of why I've been so surprised by the reactions of people to the changes. Most of the changes have at worst had no impact on my experience.
My opinion on them has largely been "at least they're trying something different", barring some decisions which seemed boneheaded for a platform that relies so heavily on linked traffic (eg when they outright turned off/broke tweet embedding and hiding all replies behind a login).
Some changes, like paid verification, have been a net positive in my opinion. No more of twitter picking favorites, particularly since the checkmark didn't mean much anyway.
This was especially meaningful for non-English speaking Twitter, as even Japanese Twitter, despite being their second biggest audience, often came off as being treated as a second class community when it came to things like verification.
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#17What if I want a platform without open antisemitism (or any for that matter), and that doesn't promote emotionally charged content as much?
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#18See also this thread from yesterday, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147914 "Thousands of scientists are cutting back from Twitter" Essentially, a survey published in Nature about twitter usage among scientists dropping, in part, because of the phenomena mentioned in this New Yorker article. Eg: "Žiga Malek, an environmental scientist at the Free University of Amsterdam, mentioned in the survey that he had sta…
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It is stupid easy for governments to control centralized private platforms. Just pass a law. The problem is that Twitter has trouble adhering to the most basic requirements while also running cheap, e.g., preventing CSAM content.