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In what way is it different? They increased the character limit? It's still a short form reddit-style message board, same as it was 3 years ago.
The technology itself hasn't changed, but almost everything else (owner, headcount, moderation, userbase etc. etc., not to mention the name of course) has changed dramatically...
This is generally sad. People hate a service, but they depend on it so much they create whole codebases to cope with it. Depending on things we hate is a tragedy. How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life. Unless you are of course somehow required/forced to use X, then I'm all for projects like these.
- i ll tell you an even better option, dont! - like honestly, dont. i have realized lately that x is full of ragebaiting and other algorithmic stuff to make you invested into it. - you ll never have even an ounce of mind the moment you open anything on x - good time to make a new year resolution, delete your account on x and say a permanent goodbye. they are trying hard to lure you back in
Don't look at the "For you" curated feed. If you only look at the "Following" feed and you follow sane, smart people, then your experience on X will be much better.
I am not a heavy user and I genuinely did not know this was an option. My experience is so bad I feel embarrassed opening the application in public.
You may have saved my sanity
- i ll tell you an even better option, dont! - like honestly, dont. i have realized lately that x is full of ragebaiting and other algorithmic stuff to make you invested into it. - you ll never have even an ounce of mind the moment you open anything on x - good time to make a new year resolution, delete your account on x and say a permanent goodbye. they are trying hard to lure you back in
Aside from political or social reasons, X is a terrible platform.
More often than not, I get a blank page, something didn't load.
If I get content, it's (randomly) behind a registration-wall.
Or it shows confusing cookie banners that half the time don't even work. (Dev console full of js errors)
So I don't even bother anymore. This service is technically so fragile and unstable, it's not worth the click.
Aside from how it's socially and businesswise broken. Because I have looked into some of the errors and issues and they'll only occur for "anonymous users" and not for twitter users. They're oftencaused by (normal vanilla) adblockers or privacy protection.
So I dare say they're either malicious, deliberate. Or lack of interest/resources for non-registered and/or privacy-aware users
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Without commenting on Mike's tone in this instance, nobody can be universally friendly, in all situations: many friendlinesses conspire to yield an aggregate unfriendliness, so it's important to avoid those particular friendlinesses (or otherwise mitigate the issue). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
- i ll tell you an even better option, dont! - like honestly, dont. i have realized lately that x is full of ragebaiting and other algorithmic stuff to make you invested into it. - you ll never have even an ounce of mind the moment you open anything on x - good time to make a new year resolution, delete your account on x and say a permanent goodbye. they are trying hard to lure you back in
Meanwhile there are people are going to the bar having a decent time and meeting interesting people.
Obviously I think you should do whatever is best for you, so this isn't a recommendation or criticism, but X is fine if you use it right. The issue you describe really only applies if you're mindless scrolling on the "for you" page – something X is very happy to let you do if that's how you want to use it. However this problem isn't unique to X, you'll find most businesses are happy to exploit people like this for profit.
On X if you curate lists of interesting users or look for content within specific communities you'll find it much, much more productive.
The reason sites like xcancel.com even exist is because people know there's some really interesting stuff on X which they want to view. You can improve the signal to noise if you decide to actively curate your own experience on X rather than handing that responsibility to X and your limbic system.
I think there are some people who genuinely can't control themselves though, so for them, yes, I agree – say out of the bars, stay out of McDonalds and stay away from X.
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The same people bemoaning the war on general purpose computing or the surveillance state happily using Chrome has always been a truly bizarre disconnect I’ve never understood. Maybe it’s age? I used Firefox since firebird, and Phoenix, and Netscape, but saying “try Firefox” might feel like talking about an archaeological relic to a 28 year old who has never even seen Firefox running.
Are other chromium based browsers also problematic ?
- i ll tell you an even better option, dont! - like honestly, dont. i have realized lately that x is full of ragebaiting and other algorithmic stuff to make you invested into it. - you ll never have even an ounce of mind the moment you open anything on x - good time to make a new year resolution, delete your account on x and say a permanent goodbye. they are trying hard to lure you back in