Honest question, why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem? Software devs have been trying to solve this problem since the beginning of the internet and yet bots still fill every space on the web.
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Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#492Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest. I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you? Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.
I agree, my twitter view is very nice. Computer graphics, few authors, some dry political analysts, space stuff. If someone posts something irascible I just unfollow them (but might later refollow).
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#493My first reaction: Say good bye to Twitter's famous WLB.
Second reaction: I think Twitter has a lot of potential still. The platform is currently stuck in the past and having a power user being in-charge would help Twitter grow again.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#494Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest. I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you? Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.
“Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest.”
you sound completely braindead
“I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you?”
no, it isn’t
“Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.”
no, it won’t
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#495What most troubles me about this whole ordeal: The lack of upper limits on wealth accumulation by an individual means that a single person can eventually directly control enough funds to simply decide one day to buy one of the world's largest communication channels. No one here seems to have a problem with this. For as much as the tech community generally despises generational-wealth families like the Waltons, or for…
> The lack of upper limits on wealth accumulation ... But the power of Elon (and Zuck, and the other modern mega-billionaires) is effectively unstoppable
You're conflating two relatively unrelated things - when systems are put in place to limit wealth accumulation, there are not only still people whose power is effectively unstoppable, they're far, far more dangerous than Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg ever will be.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#496Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest. I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you? Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.
Twitter so great, I get to see less political bullshit there than I do HN now. And I still get to interact and learn from very smart people.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#497I hope Elon succeeds in his plans here, and that Twitter can once again become a place with functioning freedom of speech for all sides of the political spectrum once again. Considering the most recent trajectory of the west regarding censorship online, this is a breath of fresh air. And dare I hope, maybe it even sets a new trend?
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#498People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself. Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills…
> he could see that revenue rise quite a bit through people actually seeing value in advertising on twitter again.
While TikTok is eating Meta, YouTube and Twitter together for lunch? Twitter's problem with making money are not just internal anymore, There's an established competitor to which young people are flocking to just like we did with Twitter when we were younger and advertisers go behind the young.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#499I liked it when StackOverflow introduced features to elicit better community manners. For example, the prompt that say something to the effect of "BobUserXYZ is new to SO, he may not know all the social rules of our community, please take that into consideration and try to be welcoming and polite". I wonder if similar prompts like that on Twitter/et al would improve toxicity. I don't specifically mean a "welcome our…
Most importantly, StackOverflow has a goal -- they are creating a collaborative QA collection. The focus is on the content, not on user interaction. I'm afraid that what works on SO may not work at all on Twitter.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#500Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest. I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you? Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.
The same can be said of Reddit or any other generally popular social media site.