We don’t need a new Twitter
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We don’t need a new Twitter
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Re: We don’t need a new Twitter
#2Haven’t we seen the same public discourse time and time again? A lot of people left FB half a decade ago, before that it was something else. I suspect we’ll keep seeing the same thing again. People want to be consumed by social network probably to their own detriment
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#3Wow 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 has changed that has made the platform worse? It feels subjectively better in my experience.
> designed to steal market share from Twitter, which continues to struggle under the leadership of Elon Musk
> interested in a less angry place for conversations.”
> interested in having a platform that is sanely run.”
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#4One important part is missing in this article: RSS Feeds! The missing aggregation of news can be done easily with RSS.
I'm waiting for a online service that adds tue conversation part to the aggregation part that RSS feeds offer for years
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#5People still use twitter?
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#6People still use twitter?
No, but they use X.
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#8Wow 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 trustworthy source of news, now it's just a big pile of low-trust accounts saying things. You can certainly do the work to build your own trust network, but that's exactly what I mean by "decline in usability."
Re: We don’t need a new Twitter
#9See 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 started seeing a lot of “strange” political far-right accounts espousing science denialism and racism in his feed. He has to block them constantly. “Twitter has always been not so nice let’s say, but it is a mess right now,” he said."
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#10Wow 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 why you're getting downvotes, but it's absolutely getting worse for me. They shut down Tweetdeck to anyone that doesn't pay about $100 a year (until the inevitable increase). The Twitter web client is far worse, infected with an overwhelming number of ads and run by an algorithm that thinks I'm looking for racist content. I had no intention of leaving after Elon took over, but he managed to find a way.