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Post by Shekelphile »

nemo44x wrote: post #562
Shekelphile wrote: post #535

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Your “Following” feed only contains who you are following so the smooth brained right wingers shouldn’t show up there. If you see a smooth brained right wing tweet in the “For You” feed you can mark it as “Not Interested” and the algo will stop suggesting smooth brained right wing tweets.

Your snark isn't needed. I'm obviously not a user of the 'for you' timeline and still got those artificially promoted tweets from people I don't follow and were not retweeted by those that I do. It's why I stopped using twitter and I see no reason to change that.

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Post by coliveira »

Nathanba wrote: post #515
lenkite wrote: post #326

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People here are praying very hard for Twitter to fail. Nearly any social media post nowadays has 50-100 comments predicting Twitter's failure and ranting about Musk. He is living rent-free in many heads now. Its utterly ludicrous how so many intelligent and rational people are becoming un-hinged whenever Twitter/Musk is mentioned.

It reminds me of the Trump thing, it seems people really lose all rationality when they are faced with a man who publically doesn't care and does whatever he wants and is successful at it. I wonder if we will one day have a psychological name for this. It must be related to something in the human brain that touches on social repression and decades of instilled moral codes like "Don't say this, nobody will like you" a…

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Post by NavinF »

callalex wrote: post #545
jamilton wrote: post #532

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The phenomenon they're referring to is when something spurious is posted on Wikipedia with no or poor citations, then used as the source for a "reputable" article (without citations), then the article is cited by Wikipedia, making the spurious information look more trustworthy.

1) that hardly ever happens, it hasn’t caused any widespread issues in the decades Wikipedia has existed. 2) All sources are cited so they can be easily verified by the reader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_...

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Post by coliveira »

alfor wrote: post #541
jascination wrote: post #333

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What's wrong with Edge? I started using it when Chrome started eating my RAM, it's been mostly unobtrusive and unnoticed, like a good browser should be.

I wanted to be the default browser, ok. It wanted to import all my info.. no thanks there was other nastyness I don’t remember. Then it showed me so much junk and crappy news on new page, it was pure propaganda. That was the end of it. I know it’s possible to configure all those things, but the starting experience was soo bad I got away quickly.

It is classic microsoft behavior. They don't create apps, they create traps. The end goal is just to make people slaves of their software. The software they create is just "leverage" so they can trap more and more of you or your business.

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Post by coliveira »

6031769 wrote: post #281
nicenewtemp84 wrote: post #275

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I used bing chat (supposedly using gpt4) and it was far more annoying than openai free chatgpt (supposedly using gpt3.5) Somehow Microsoft found a way to make it worse?

Of course they did. That ought to be their slogan. "Microsoft: finding a way to make it worse since 1975"

Yes, I wonder why is so difficult for people to understand this. Microsoft wants to make your life worse, even when they have good software.

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Post by crazygringo »

hobs wrote: post #249
memish wrote: post #232

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Don't confuse tolerance for free speech with the dubious concept of hate speech and its selective application.

Ah yes, that's why he banned all those journalists who spent time reporting on the lawsuits against him, because he's all for free speech. Nah, the dude is for his brand of free speech, which is you can hate the people he hates and you can do what he likes and you can stay on his website.

Wow. This is a totally legitimate, reasonable comment and you got flagged for it.

I've actually never seen that on HN before -- every flagged comment I've ever looked at turned out to be full of abusive language and attacks.

It makes me sad that multiple HN'ers flagged this. :(

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Post by rvz »

brigandish wrote: post #534
dysoco wrote: post #432

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>There still isn't much of a reason to move away from it, except for those who want to signal their disdain for Musk's political views There ISN'T? Ever since Musk stepped in it's riddled with bugs and changes for the worse. As an example very recently and as of now Twitter Circles are broken and tweets that should be private only for a select few are visible to anyone in the "For You" tab. This is MASSIVE and probab…

It was always riddled with bugs, I'm not sure why people are blaming that on Musk as that is surely the least applicable of any of the criticisms that get thrown his way. Are people's memories that short that they thought it was a bug free experience up till a few months ago?

> Are people's memories that short that they thought it was a bug free experience up till a few months ago?

Hilarious how people here have tolerated all garbage and bugs from pre-Musk Twitter takeover for years and now they all complain about them now.

It is selective memory based on the current villain of the year to hate. Twitter has always been an outrage capital with a strong network effect. It is just that for the 220M+ daily active users, it is better than the sea of worse alternatives out there.

Many HNers here won’t admit it, but the reality is that network effects are real hence the difficulty in creating a viable alternative, No anecdote, short term hype or subjective responses such as ‘for me it is’ refutes that.

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Post by btilly »

freejazz wrote: post #469
btilly wrote: post #327

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You are arguing that people should share your disdain for Musk's political views. You are not arguing against the claim that this is the only really strong reason why people would want to leave. Second, libertarian ideals around free speech say that fairly engaging people whose views you disagree with is a better way to change minds than deplatforming them. That is because deplatforming them just encourages them to m…

Ah yes, legitimizing people rioting in the US capitol because Twitter censors, when they aren't busy drinking bleach!

I will never understand people like you interpreting "this is a cause of that" as "legitimizing" that.

It doesn't. I strongly oppose the riot, which is why I want people to take seriously the things that helped cause that.

Similarly I'm not legitimizing gang violence when I say that the War on Drugs helps cause gang violence, I'm explaining why I oppose the War on Drugs.

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Post by jdminhbg »

sleepybrett wrote: post #405
greyman wrote: post #397

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But is twitter really dying? The fields I watch (AI, software engineering, writers), all thought leaders are still there, still posting regularly.

In my communities most people are double posting on mastodon and twitter. So much so that I only check twitter every few days for the stragglers.

Mastodon only has about 1.2M active users, so if most of your community is on there, it’s an unusual community.

https://mastodon-analytics.com/

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Post by Cardinal7167 »

okdood64 wrote: post #516
Cardinal7167 wrote: post #141

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The great shake up has started. Google pissing their pants with AIs abrupt arrival, Twitter dying a death by a million cuts, Facebook in mid-air making their VR play, the tech skyline will look very different in 5 years.

So are you going to take large short positions on Google and Facebook?

I won’t be predictive or prescriptive about the markets. But it’s clear that tech giants will soon have to fall or evolve.
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