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The people demanding a "new twitter" are those who set up weird hierarchies and benefitted from the obscure, hidden "blue checkmark" game - more often than not, their only tweets were lukewarm pro-current thing babble. I don't miss old twitter a bit.
Headlines like this make me not read the article, because anyone who actually writes this headline seems to lack the unawareness that his opinion is literally 1 insignificant stupid opinion floating in a sea of 10 billion shitty opinions. Headlines like this are an immediate benefit to me because it allows authors to filter themselves out. There are so many better ways to offer takes on things that don't depend on th…
Headlines like this make me not read the article, because anyone who actually writes this headline seems to lack the unawareness that his opinion is literally 1 insignificant stupid opinion floating in a sea of 10 billion shitty opinions. Headlines like this are an immediate benefit to me because it allows authors to filter themselves out. There are so many better ways to offer takes on things that don't depend on th…
Social proof is probably one of the strongest cohesive bonds of civilization. Cal Newport is a fairly well known person in tech. You might not respect him, but there are probably hundreds of people who's opinions you will take as gospel.
My point is that headlines written like "We dont need _______" is idiotic, because it's an opinion stating what is best for others while excluding/ignoring all variables which would change that outcome the opinion is based on. How about just writing what it's about? I explain more what I meant in my other comment.
Twitter was doing just fine when it banned nazis and covid disinformation. to call this "a more sanitized and boring experience" is textbook black and white reasoning. moderation is hard, but twitter's new "moderation is the CEO personally bans the accounts he's personally offended by, while people who share child exploitation videos are celebrated and paid cash" [1] is not the way to do it. [1] https://www.mediamatt…
Censoring "misinformation" is just a thinly veiled justification to censor anything which is uncomfortable for whoever has power.
Twitter went downhill as soon as it became socially acceptable to have conversations on it. When it was pure status updates and quick information bursts, it was fine. Basically, bring back the 140 character limit. EDIT: got a bad source on the old character limit which claimed it was 120
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I find comments like that your last sentence so bizarre. Just don't use them and you can still be happy? Millions of people use and enjoy X, it's ok if you don't.
Your post basically says "it's bizarre you're expressing your opinion, don't do that" - that is not healthy for productive conversation (ironically op's point about those products) It's ok to express negative opinions about why one doesn't use something. Other people benefit from learning from a valid dissenting view
No it doesn't. They're just saying, millions are still using and enjoying Twitter / X and that is fine. If you don't like it, that is also fine and you can still be happy anyway. I don't see a problem with that.
There is no need to misinterpret the comment.
When I first started using Mastodon I felt a bit overwhelmed by angry toots from certain communities. One of my pet peeves is leftists who, just as the John Birch Society saw "communists" everywhere, now see "fascists" everywhere. (For the record I am a leftist, a friend and I were the first people to put Chomsky audio lectures on the web, I've been to Howie Hawkins' house, etc.) It was clear to me that the "explore"…
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> reporters found it to be a great way to get breaking stories out in the public sphere. Isn't that how it is still used? At least with a weather bent? That's about all I ever see in my Twitter feed is information about upcoming weather risks, with far more detail than you get from your usual weather forecasts. It's great and I've been able to learn a lot more about the weather because of it.
That's likely because you engage with weather-related content. For all its problems, Twitter does do a great job at tailoring the algorithmic feed to your (expressed) interests. I just follow/engage with artists, so I rarely see any English text on my feed. The people who see a constant feed of political hot takes have presumably engaged in political arguments on Twitter. As an aside this was what pissed me off most…