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Dont start splitting hairs here either, I understand and was there when Twitter was the only way to communicate when governments were putting down protests... There are other tools. Go out there and build them... I wont ever touch a spycloud again while protesting...
Community Notes is the best feature. I wonder why wouldn't original Twitter implement it. Maybe it would deflate the bias they wanted to project on the rest of us.
> Maybe it would deflate the bias they wanted to project on the rest of us. I think that an important thing to understand is that social media generally doesn't project a single bias . It is more dangerous: it creates bubbles that encompass groups of people and then mine their minds for attention. This results in polarization, increased rage, and fake outrage, and the like. So it isn't really helpful to complain that…
And specifically the things you hate, because that's what people click-'n-view.
>And yes, on the surface this incentivizes people to create better content. The better your content is, the more it gets seen, and the more money you make. And yet, my felt experience of this change is the exact opposite—as people seek more engagement, their content gets worse. What’s going on here? It always tickles me when terminally online people realize that human connection doesn't scale . It's valuable precisel…
Better content seeks quality connections that may scale so far.
Engaging content seeks quantity of connections.
Of course this could be further argued. Maybe the better and engagement is interpreted to mean too distribution in quantity focused.
Edit:typo
This very issue is why I haven't had a social media account in years. Even something as benign as posting here on HN entails editing to avoid downvotes. While we all make necessary and unavoidable judgements, the explicit nature of being judged and acting as a judge on social media lends itself to being inauthentic and narcissistic. Hans-Georg Moeller has an excellent YouTube channel called Carefree Wandering. There…
> Elon’s political antics chased away a lot of good people. Many of my favorite follows have moved to Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Also, more and more people are waking up and realizing that social media is actually quite bad for you, and leaving it behind. Good for them. Bad for me. It's common to blame the move from Twitter on Elon's politics. And that's perfectly valid. I moved away for a much simpler reason. H…
Community Notes is the best feature. I wonder why wouldn't original Twitter implement it. Maybe it would deflate the bias they wanted to project on the rest of us.
> Maybe it would deflate the bias they wanted to project on the rest of us. I think that an important thing to understand is that social media generally doesn't project a single bias . It is more dangerous: it creates bubbles that encompass groups of people and then mine their minds for attention. This results in polarization, increased rage, and fake outrage, and the like. So it isn't really helpful to complain that…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
2021 January - Birdwatch launched with first 1000 users 2022 October - Elon acquires Twitter 2022 November - Birdwatch renamed to Community Notes 2022 December - Community Notes feature made available to tweets around the world Maybe Elon pushed the release schedule timeline up, but it would not be correct to state that pre-Elon Twitter didn't develop and launch the feature. It had been live for almost 2 years by the…
No way original twitter would have allowed community notes on ads or political posts
(Especially considering you can promote a post after the fact; it's not necessarily an ad to start with.)
this phenomenon exists outside Twitter/X as well you know, Youtube is an example
Here's a complaint about the printing press enabling the same dynamics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism#/media/File:...
We can look back at the age of the News Publication and see that the concerns of the few were not taken seriously. The lack of concern for those issues, is the same lack of concern over the issues of Social Media.
Those alarmists were _overwhelmingly_ correct in their concerns over mass produced print media.
Those same concerns should be placed with heavier weight on Social Media outlets.