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Post by duxup »

blurrybird wrote: post #140
rconti wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel much the same way. Facebook tried to sell me on threads by showing me an ad with 2.5 threads visible: one of them was clearly a racist post that I didn't want to see the conclusion of, the other was clearly a liberal outrage thread about how much money Jeff Bezos makes that I ALSO didn't want to see the end of, and the third was a mostly-obscured post by a ceramic artisan I follow. They don't seem to have any…

This experience always shocks me because it’s not aligned with my own. Even on Twitter I never saw that junk. I followed almost exclusively tech folk, AWS community heros, NodeJS developers, Architects and Platform Engineers. I’m not even a developer, but I followed them to be exposed more to that topic. As a result, my feed was 99.9% technical content and product management content. I got the same result in under an…

I have theory that folks who have established profiles and settings and following underestimate what it takes to go from zero to useful from scratch now as far as curation goes.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by duxup »

dv_dt wrote: post #243
duxup wrote: post #91

I've tried a few twitter alternatives (including Bluesky) as someone who hardly ever uses twitter anyway. I was a little disappointed how it just felt like ... more twitter. I'm browsing around finding mostly memes or outrage that doesn't have context to me. I fairly quickly get exhausted trying to find / curate content. I guess I should have expected it, but I hoped that somewhere a different network would have a di…

I found the mastodon / fediverse space to be somewhat slow paced to start with, but after a while of following interesting people gets to much better interaction space. People and topics you are personally interested in and want to read about.

TY. I might have to give them a spin again.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by wsatb »

wnevets wrote: post #72

It feels like Bluesky missed their chance to be the twitter alternative after how well Threads has been going. I'm sure zuck will find a way to ruin it but its gonna be a long road a head for Bluesky.

Threads still doesn’t have a very good search function, which in my opinion was always Twitter’s greatest asset. Your feed always had a ton of randomness, but if you wanted to talk about something specific that was going on at the moment, you searched for it. Threads just gives a bunch of random results, some in the last hour, followed by 5 months ago, and then another from 15 minutes ago.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by rconti »

k12sosse wrote: post #194
rconti wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get that this rage bait works on some percent of the population. 20%? 50%? 75%? What that leaves unanswered is, why aren't these platforms smart enough to adapt to what actual individuals react to? Sure, they picked the most successful single formula, but you'd think they'd want to increase the platform's engagement at the margins rather than just milking one approach for all it's worth.

I suspect these megalithic corpos are actually in it to make a dollar, no matter the cost to reputation or society. You'd think reputation would matter but it turns out once you reach the point of no return ("I keep Facebook so I can share with my grandma"), you'll come back even if there are rats chewing on your toes

But my point was they could make more money if they had algos that worked on more people.

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Post by cubefox »

dredmorbius wrote: post #347
cubefox wrote: post #345

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The difference is that in case of email we are talking about clear cases of spam. In the case of Fediverse instances the reason for blocking are ideological differences. That's exactly what should be left to the individual, as the opinions diverge a lot. For spam everyone agrees that it should be blocked.

Rigid fixation on spam is an overly constrained understanding of the problem. Email spam is a problem because it directly attacks the utility and value of the communications channel, driving people to other alternatives (or none at all in some cases). Similar issues exist with telephony abuses (robocalls, scam calls, spoofing, privacy invasion and sruveillance, etc.). In the case of group discussion / social / microb…

I disagree. The claim that everything without censorship becomes a "Nazi bar" is ridiculous. It is only defensible if you have an absurdly wide definition of "Nazi". The claim that advertising and "brand-safe" content justifies political censorship is an especially sad one. As for the existence of alleged "systemic" abuse: I don't see any evidence that it exists.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by pierrelf »

wrboyce wrote: post #321
orf wrote: post #317

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