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60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by yyuugg »

mrangle wrote: post #30
lm28469 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People should touch some grass instead of debating if insulting groups of people online is what the founding fathers meant by freedom of speech, or if it actually brings anything of value to society. Twitter is still censoring a lot of shit, it just changed side and now that it's yours it's "freedom" btw freedom of speech doesn't exist anywhere to begin with. Even in the self proclaimed "land of the free" you can't s…

That makes no sense, in total.

Then it's a good opportunity for you to reflect on why it doesn't make sense, go and educate yourself a little. Congrats, you learned you need to learn a little today!

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by rsynnott »

mrangle wrote: post #28
Spivak wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I wanted replies to my posts to be the most offensive thing the person could think of just for the keks I would just go to 4chan where at least it's more creative. You can call it running away but it's not out of fear, it's because the quality of discussion dropped to nothing. It didn't used to be that bad when a post broke containment. I've had great discussions on HN with people who disagree with me on very fund…

Low quality responses aren't a part of a discussion: they're simply to be ignored. This is part and parcel for the internet, everywhere and for everyone. Unless one chooses not to ignore them, but that's their specific choice to participate. Where exactly is there "quality of discussion", if we include low quality responses in that rating, in any political space that isn't siloed? It doesn't exist today, and if the s…

> Low quality responses aren't a part of a discussion: they're simply to be ignored. This is part and parcel for the internet, everywhere and for everyone.

Cool. Twitter has made this much more difficult, by (a) embracing a pay-for-attention model, where bluetick replies, which are rarely worth looking at, are artificially promoted and (b) by making mass-blocking far more difficult (through the death of the API). So, people are sensibly going to Bluesky, which provides a better product, with sensible, choosable reply prioritisation, and a first-party blocklist system.

Like a big part of what's going on here is that Twitter is a way worse product than it used to be, while on the other hand better competing products exist in a way that they did not before. It's pretty natural under those circumstances that people go from the bad product to the good product. This is, broadly, how most dead social networks have died, both those which actively made themselves worse (livejournal, Digg, Tumblr), and those which were merely overtaken (Friendster, Myspace, Slashdot).

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by mrangle »

rsynnott wrote: post #32
mrangle wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Low quality responses aren't a part of a discussion: they're simply to be ignored. This is part and parcel for the internet, everywhere and for everyone. Unless one chooses not to ignore them, but that's their specific choice to participate. Where exactly is there "quality of discussion", if we include low quality responses in that rating, in any political space that isn't siloed? It doesn't exist today, and if the s…

> Low quality responses aren't a part of a discussion: they're simply to be ignored. This is part and parcel for the internet, everywhere and for everyone. Cool. Twitter has made this much more difficult, by (a) embracing a pay-for-attention model, where bluetick replies, which are rarely worth looking at, are artificially promoted and (b) by making mass-blocking far more difficult (through the death of the API). So,…

It's not difficult to ignore people. There are still a lot of (bluecheck) Leftists on X, and people successfully practice ignoring their version of terrible posting just as much as can be done in the other direction.

Looking forward to monitoring the "death of twitter" and the victory of bluesky.

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by dkobia »

Some of my issues with X.

- The algorithm is extremely aggressive and antagonistic. Any signal (linger, view) on a post indicates you might want to see more of whatever it is. Usually it is posts that provoke the most reaction.

- Posts with links are automatically down-ranked.

- I've been seeing some of the most inexplicably offensive ads.

X has been a good way to find my news blindspots. Unfortunately it seems to be taking a hard right lean lately.

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by mrangle »

yyuugg wrote: post #31
mrangle wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That makes no sense, in total.

Then it's a good opportunity for you to reflect on why it doesn't make sense, go and educate yourself a little. Congrats, you learned you need to learn a little today!

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Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by mrangle »

yyuugg wrote: post #26

X, as a platform, is absolutely cooked. I'm sure it will remain around the same way Truth social is around. A small group of right wing folks will hang out there and argue to their last breath that it's more free speech or something, but increasingly having an X account will be seen as kind of a weird trait. It'll make for some interesting stories a decade from now when we'll all reminisce about "remember how Musk fu…

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Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by yyuugg »

mrangle wrote: post #39
yyuugg wrote: post #26

X, as a platform, is absolutely cooked. I'm sure it will remain around the same way Truth social is around. A small group of right wing folks will hang out there and argue to their last breath that it's more free speech or something, but increasingly having an X account will be seen as kind of a weird trait. It'll make for some interesting stories a decade from now when we'll all reminisce about "remember how Musk fu…

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I talk about MySpace and Digg regularly, they are unpopular, and they are the exact thing happening here.

I think we're in the interregnum period between X and whatever picks up the crown.

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