Would instantly use it if I could also have it filter Elon’s tweets and his fans and followers.
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I don't want to be on whatever side you're on if you're going around making divisions over what social network people use.
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#43Such a great demonstration of the concept.
I think it’s inevitable that we’ll start to see more sophisticated ways of organizing our social media feeds.
I don’t think it has to be this binary decision where we either abandon social media altogether or expose ourselves to the most emotionally draining content possible. There’s likely many different unexplored metas as it were.
I often joke that we should have a marketplace of algorithms we can subscribe to, where the sentiment “slider bar” can go from Hello Kitty Island Adventure positivity to 4Chan LiveLeak nihilism, if you so choose.
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Switching to mastodon has been such a breath of fresh air. No algo-driven feed manipulating me to constantly check in means that I have a much healthier relationship with it. If I'm, say, on the metro I can use it to kill time for 5 minutes... and then put it down, and I don't feel compelled to pick it up.
Be careful what air you breath in: "Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material" [1] [2]. A lot of this was previously limited by X until a mass exodus to platforms such as Mastodon and BlueSky.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/24/twitter-r...
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's not promote divisions. Unless you meant: "people should stop using social media in which there are monetary incentives to be sensationalist", which I definitely agree on. I would love if we had more civilized discussions on the web, we would understand eachother better that way. But it's an impossible ask.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the time of posting, I count 8 matches for "Elon" on this page and 23 comments. All of but one of the mentions has a negative sentiment.
how dare they talk (badly!) about him in a thread about twitter!
The above poster didn't elaborate when he mentioned, "Living rent free". If we are going to have a discourse on the topic, I think it deserves more depth.
He's a complicated figure. I'm not a fan of all of his ideas, nor do I consider him some kind of right-wing free speech savior. He's like anyone else in that there's some hit and miss. I do find it disturbing how quickly the predominantly left-leaning tech sphere turned on him. This coincided with politically driven media talking points.
A few short years ago he was celebrated for his association with green energy. He was even celebrated by the globalists at the WEF. For this and other reasons, I suspect his promotion to be something of a false alternative. Idolizing him seems a bit naive. The demonizations I regularly read on this site are often poorly reasoned or Godwinian hyperbole.
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#47I've found this [1] to also work really well to clean up the feed.
1: https://help.x.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-deactivat...
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X is by far the least fun social media app. I tried it and I never got the appeal. Just stick to insta for lighthearted content.
Fun and useful are different things though. I use X for 'news', debate, and updates on anything global. YouTube for specific tech tutorials and 'junk' viewing (e.g. something light-hearted while eating). And insta/fb reels for filling in idle gaps (e.g. while waiting in a queue). I gave up legacy media about 3-4 years ago and although Twitter is trash, would take it over mainstream media any day of the week (same wit…
Didn’t we use to laugh at boomers who got their news from their Facebook feed?
X is the same thing, but with the lies amped up 10x and fractured into discontextualized atoms of outrage to keep you scrolling.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
X is by far the least fun social media app. I tried it and I never got the appeal. Just stick to insta for lighthearted content.
Fun and useful are different things though. I use X for 'news', debate, and updates on anything global. YouTube for specific tech tutorials and 'junk' viewing (e.g. something light-hearted while eating). And insta/fb reels for filling in idle gaps (e.g. while waiting in a queue). I gave up legacy media about 3-4 years ago and although Twitter is trash, would take it over mainstream media any day of the week (same wit…
I guess people like me have zero interest in global news, debate and updates on anything global. Or rather, not zero interest, but zero time for it after filling the day with other (more important to me) things.