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Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by the__alchemist »

mrguyorama wrote: post #453
sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #308

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To follow topics on Bluesky, add feeds for those topics. The "Following" tab is literally that - chronologically ordered posts and replies from accounts you follow. The "Discover" and "Popular with Friends" tabs give you algorithm-sourced stuff that is somewhat connected to who you follow. When I click on the tab for the Game Dev feed, I see nothing but posts about game dev. When I click on the Astronomy feed, I only…

The reality is that microblogging, whether it be on X or bluesky or mastadon or even facebook posts, will ALWAYS be lower signal, lower value than real, curated or effort filled content. I like John Green a lot, including his vlogs that are just him speaking about stuff he doesn't know for half an hour, but I still do not go read what he posts on Bluesky, because it's as low quality, low signal, low intent, and low e…

I noticed the same thing with Angela Collier. I love her videos, but her Bluesky posts have less subtlety than I would expect from someone of her intelligence and scientific training.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by mrguyorama »

shatnersbassoon wrote: post #97
beezlewax wrote: post #73

Why are you using twitter for anything at this stage?

what do you recommend instead?

What's so hard about reading scientific papers?

You DO care about the actual, meaningful, quantifiable results, right, not just the vibes and trends and fashions?

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by oldestofsports »

HeinzStuckeIt wrote: post #417
itsoktocry wrote: post #205

I've been a long-time Twitter user. I don't hate Elon, so when he bought it I was cautiously optimistic. I deactivated last week. The platform is bad and getting worse. It's scammy and spammy. Everything is designed around garbage engagement, so that the X team can brag about how good the product is doing.

I follow a couple of writers on X through Nitter on a desktop browser. These writers inevitably draw bot comments whenever they touch on something relevant to some or another powerful country’s politics. For me, it’s easy to verify that these commentators (who often have convincing-sounding fake names and photos) are bots by simply ctrl-clicking on the commenters’ usernames and, in the tab that immediately opens, see…

Why do bots have flawed english? Seems like with LLMs being a thing they would not.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by SchemaLoad »

dayvid wrote: post #382
itsoktocry wrote: post #205

I've been a long-time Twitter user. I don't hate Elon, so when he bought it I was cautiously optimistic. I deactivated last week. The platform is bad and getting worse. It's scammy and spammy. Everything is designed around garbage engagement, so that the X team can brag about how good the product is doing.

It's a full PvP server now. Old Social media outrage algos + paying people for posts further broke it

When I left about a year ago the whole feed was entirely just bot slop from verified accounts. It was impossible to tune or subscribe your way in to a good feed. I imagine it's so much worse now with all the AI generated content.

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

ElectronCharge wrote: post #458
metabagel wrote: post #353

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USAID was a highly effective and efficient operation. Musk dismembered it, leading to untold misery, death, and the spread of infectious diseases. I think this is reason enough to hate Musk. Also, keep in mind that what Musk did was a violation of the separation of powers in the Constitution, so he simultaneously killed a program which saved lives while he also started the U.S. on the road to authoritarianism. https:…

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This administration has added more debt than any previous. So this talk about lowering debt is pure bullshit.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by morshu9001 »

rc_kas wrote: post #429
morshu9001 wrote: post #411

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I like the new Twitter stance on speech and some of the new features, problem is the UI is super annoying. It was actually kinda bad before too, but it got way worse.

You like the X.com stance where it bans speech from liberals and leftists?

Who did they ban? Old one was https://ballotpedia.org/Elected_officials_suspended_or_banne... plus the New York Post for the laptop thing

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by HeinzStuckeIt »

oldestofsports wrote: post #463
HeinzStuckeIt wrote: post #417

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I follow a couple of writers on X through Nitter on a desktop browser. These writers inevitably draw bot comments whenever they touch on something relevant to some or another powerful country’s politics. For me, it’s easy to verify that these commentators (who often have convincing-sounding fake names and photos) are bots by simply ctrl-clicking on the commenters’ usernames and, in the tab that immediately opens, see…

Why do bots have flawed english? Seems like with LLMs being a thing they would not.

“Bots” is a cover term for both purely automated scripts, and for human posters who are using some kind of tools to post more efficiently in order to manipulate discourse.

In this case, it’s obvious that a lot of Russian state-actor employees, for instance, are not passing their writing through an LLM, but rather are just quickly vomiting out a comment in their imperfect English. Exposés of Russian troll factories show that a lot of these employees are young university-educated people who only want the money, and don’t have strong feelings for the propaganda they are posting, so they half-arse it.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by riffraff »

oldestofsports wrote: post #463
HeinzStuckeIt wrote: post #417

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I follow a couple of writers on X through Nitter on a desktop browser. These writers inevitably draw bot comments whenever they touch on something relevant to some or another powerful country’s politics. For me, it’s easy to verify that these commentators (who often have convincing-sounding fake names and photos) are bots by simply ctrl-clicking on the commenters’ usernames and, in the tab that immediately opens, see…

Why do bots have flawed english? Seems like with LLMs being a thing they would not.

They're not necessarily bots in the sense of automated accounts but the older troll farms with a bunch of people just clicking away.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by [deleted] »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #441
bko wrote: post #328

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What is garbage engagement? I think its entirely reasonable that an algorithm shows you things that you engaged with. It would be weird if it didn't promoted stuff I didn't engage w/.

A better term might be antagonism. X seemed to switch to a system of rewarding views as a method of engagement far above all else, which led to people (generally and deliberately) ramping up the extremeness of their hot takes in a bid to get as much attention as possible. A parallel term is "hate click", where there's a headline that's so stupid or off that you click it just to see what the hell they were talking abo…

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Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

csallen wrote: post #446
djeastm wrote: post #408

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>only served to push him and his listeners rightward Kind of takes the agency away from full-grown adults, doesn't it? How about people have principles and don't change them to chase audience/money/fame, eh?

You're right. Change the words "they were pushed" to "they chose". There's your agency. > How about people have principles and don't change them to chase audience/money/fame, eh? You assume that "having principles" means having your principles, and that for someone to disagree must mean they are unprincipled and simply chasing money/audience/fame. This kind of attitude comes across as incredibly arrogant and un-self-…

I suspect the people that really think that are a small minority. "The South was right, black people are subhuman and needed to be taken care of by slave owners" is not going to be a popular discussion topic, for example. Or suggesting that Hitler was right about how people should be treated in Europe.
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