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> i'm pretty tired of engagement bait and all the political nonsense on my x/twitter feed Getting rid of "For you" entirely and removing Retweets from the chronological timeline (default configuration for [1]) gets you 95% of the way there - you'll only get engagement bait and political nonsense if the people you choose to follow are the ones actively doing it, in which case… [1] https://jbscript.dev/control-panel-fo…
If you have to fight this much to use a platform...why bother?
it feels like a huge chunk of (recent/real-time) tech/design discussion happens there. but could be just me. i'm still warming up on bluesky/threads.
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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 t…
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You won't get messages from Elon, but you will sure get a lot of messages about Elon since he lives rent free in so many people's mind.
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.
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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 t…
is... is "globalist" a code word?
In short, it is the philosophy espoused by the WEF, The Club of Rome and some UN institutions.
For all of Twitter's faults, I never interact with someone making these toxic insinuations on that platform.
Such 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 market…
the problem imo is that there is absolutely zero control on most platforms.
on x there is a button called "i'm not interested in this tweet" but obviously it doesn't do anything meaningful
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It pains me but I’m leaning in this direction too. I found the idea of a digital town square with a commitment to maximum truth appealing, but seeing what Twitter has become it’s hard to not feel this was naive of me. To me the big blow was seeing the response to what’s happening in Gaza and what narratives people and algorithms in combination end up promoting. The thoughtful, balanced, humanistic view gets approxima…
"completely untruthful propaganda" honest question: how are you able to discern that?
If you need an example on the other side you can take this popular post that claims the German foreign minister has said Israel has a right to target civilians [2], when in fact she says Israel has a right to target civilian infrastructure, if it is being used for military purposes.
Community notes do not appear because the algorithms require people who typically disagree to agree, which I doubt will ever happen in a military conflict.
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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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