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It wasn't that long ago when people on here thought that Twitter was about to be replaced by Threads.
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.. and of course, the "rocket man bad" crowd are very anti X for obvious reasons.
Exactly. Whilst many here are still screaming about Twitter / X collapsing with yet 220M+ daily active users. Their predictions were quite deranged: Prediction 1: November 2022 was meant to be the time when Twitter / X the social network and service was 'predicted' to implode in the coming weeks after the layoffs [0][1] and not be up and running globally. Reality: In reality, it is still up and running and working to…
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Another great tool on Mastodon is the "block all from instane" button. Birds of a feather flock together, so blocking the most egregious offenders is a fast-track to keeping your TL clean (in my experience).
That button may as well be called the echo chamber construction button since that is what it will eventually achieve. An open mind for a different view is a good thing, it does not mean you need to make that view your own but it does mean you should be open to the fact that others think and act in different ways from your own.
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For the record we're on the same side here.
Thanks for clarifying. To me it's just never obvious what their real issue is. I suspect someone who succeeds at stuff while daring to question everything and have fun at it is just triggering for a lot of folks.
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.. and of course, the "rocket man bad" crowd are very anti X for obvious reasons.
Exactly. Whilst many here are still screaming about Twitter / X collapsing with yet 220M+ daily active users. Their predictions were quite deranged: Prediction 1: November 2022 was meant to be the time when Twitter / X the social network and service was 'predicted' to implode in the coming weeks after the layoffs [0][1] and not be up and running globally. Reality: In reality, it is still up and running and working to…
To be fair, in the hands of someone else, it could well have - they shot themselves in the feet with several easy-to-avoid mistakes (no web version, forcing people you don't follow into your feed, etc.)
(My Threads experience was "ok, nice presentation, who is that? block. block. block. wtf. block. block. block. block.block.blockblockblock. I give up." and I haven't been back since the day I signed up.)
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It's physically painful to you when people have opinions about what is not useful for other people? If that is so, you really need to see a doctor
It is painful when the link is a clickbait blog intro linking to actual article that is paywalled
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Thanks for clarifying. To me it's just never obvious what their real issue is. I suspect someone who succeeds at stuff while daring to question everything and have fun at it is just triggering for a lot of folks.
it's the nietzschean slave morality in action
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"An Essay In Which I Present Points About The Social Media Service Formerly Known As Twitter, Arguing That Newer Systems Should Not Attempt To Duplicate It Because That Would Reduce Their Value To Society." or "We Don't Need A New Twitter" and trust that people will supply context.
So ... someone or some entity should not attempt to start a new Twitter-style because Cal Newport says it will emphasize negativity? Surely the vast amount of brainpower could go into perhaps modifying the style or the algorithm, or tweet length, or some variable to help? Surely there is an embedded solution, somewhere in there. That's why I'm saying headlines like this are stupid, there are literally near infinite v…
Yeah, sure, he's all alone in saying that.
> Surely the vast amount of brainpower could go into perhaps modifying the style or the algorithm, or tweet length, or some variable to help? Surely there is an embedded solution, somewhere in there.
"Surely"?!? There is no more reason to be sure of that than of the opposite. On the contrary, all the evidence so far rather strongly supports the opposite. So... "Surely"? Muahahahaa.
> That's why I'm saying headlines like this are stupid, there are literally near infinite variables that affect outcomes.
That's a bit like saying "That's why I'm saying headlines like 'We don't need a new bubonic plague' are stupid, there are literally near infinite variables that affect outcomes". What, you're saying Twitter isn't like the bubonic plague? Like I said, all evidence so far points toward it being so, so why don't you prove that it isn't. That's the only way to prove your claim that the headline is stupid.
> Or even, if he doesn't want to think about solving it, then "Twitter-like platforms lead to increased negativity". Now it's a statement of fact and its up to the reader to use the information usefully
1) Twitter is the quintessential Twitter-like platform.
2) WTF would "a new Twitter" even mean, if not precisely any new "Twitter-like platform"?!?
3) The headline has always been a statement of fact.
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So ... someone or some entity should not attempt to start a new Twitter-style because Cal Newport says it will emphasize negativity? Surely the vast amount of brainpower could go into perhaps modifying the style or the algorithm, or tweet length, or some variable to help? Surely there is an embedded solution, somewhere in there. That's why I'm saying headlines like this are stupid, there are literally near infinite v…
> So ... someone or some entity should not attempt to start a new Twitter-style because Cal Newport says it will emphasize negativity? Yeah, sure, he's all alone in saying that. > Surely the vast amount of brainpower could go into perhaps modifying the style or the algorithm, or tweet length, or some variable to help? Surely there is an embedded solution, somewhere in there. "Surely"?!? There is no more reason to be…
The bubonic plague killed millions of people.
"We dont need __some tech thing__" is definitely not a statement of fact. There's literally no universe where this is true.
"Twitter when analyzed in X way, appears sentiment trends towards the negative" is much more a statement of fact, but won't be preferred because its not clickbait paternalistic garbage
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I find comments like that your last sentence so bizarre. Just don't use them and you can still be happy? Millions of people use and enjoy X, it's ok if you don't.
The problem is the East Coast media still spends way too much time on these things. The worst culture war takes end up getting articles written about them. It’s like our sociopolitical landscape is determined by the most insane 100 people in the country with access to the Internet.