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X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"
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#62"X" is in a weird place now. The monetization of engagement absolutely wrecked the feeds from my cursory glance. Just ragebaiting, vague posting, abuse (for a while, every female posting would have someone in the replies doing "grok, put OP in a bikini" and it would post sexualized images of them). Someone vent viral by posting a picture of Steve Jobs' daughter (?), and people try to replicate that as that now genera…
My 'For you' feed is almost exclusively Photography, science and tech news. I believe it strongly depends on what you interact with. At some point I also had a lot of US news in my feed, but once I stopped opening those posts and instead used the 'Not interested in this post' button or muted the author, they disappeared. Probably following other accounts or liking photography posts also helped.
They're not on my For You feed, but anytime I watch a video on Twitter and it automatically jumps to a next video, it's always something that would never be on my feed. These days, it's usually bodycam footage from the United States (which I don't live in).
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#63I created an account in X yesterday because I'm trying to get more involved into building in public and the social aspect of development and I was shocked to see nowadays you can pay for X premium where the more you pay, the more interactions you get to your tweets. At the end I just deleted it and created an account into Bluesky instead.
Out of the anger inducing frying pan and into the group-think fire.
We're against chronological timelines composed of people you follow for being "group think" now?
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#64"X" is in a weird place now. The monetization of engagement absolutely wrecked the feeds from my cursory glance. Just ragebaiting, vague posting, abuse (for a while, every female posting would have someone in the replies doing "grok, put OP in a bikini" and it would post sexualized images of them). Someone vent viral by posting a picture of Steve Jobs' daughter (?), and people try to replicate that as that now genera…
My 'For you' feed is almost exclusively Photography, science and tech news. I believe it strongly depends on what you interact with. At some point I also had a lot of US news in my feed, but once I stopped opening those posts and instead used the 'Not interested in this post' button or muted the author, they disappeared. Probably following other accounts or liking photography posts also helped.
Meh, this borders on victim blaming. You can't deny they've done something to turn it the last few years. And there is no one of my interest left to follow, they've all jumped ship. I checked the "following" tab now, and there is nothing of interest there, they've all left.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn’t matter what it is called. You can buy interactions, that’s like buying fake followers.
> You can buy interactions You're describing advertisment in general. Same with FB. If I throw enough money at a posting ad, I will gain interactions.
You're missing the point. There's a difference between buying an ad, something that's clearly marked as an ad and inserted as an ad, vs having your normal posts appear organic but still getting put in front of more people.
Or, it's mainly the opposite. If you don't pay, you no longer get the organic, not even from your own followers.
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#66Same here. Premium account, years old, barely post, banned with no explanation.
What’s worse: no way to notify followers or export data after a ban.
Lesson here: Never outsource your identity or communication to a platform you don’t control, treat them as disposable channels, that might disappear any day.
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#67"Inauthentic behaviour"? Did Simone de Bouvoir take over X?
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#68"X" is in a weird place now. The monetization of engagement absolutely wrecked the feeds from my cursory glance. Just ragebaiting, vague posting, abuse (for a while, every female posting would have someone in the replies doing "grok, put OP in a bikini" and it would post sexualized images of them). Someone vent viral by posting a picture of Steve Jobs' daughter (?), and people try to replicate that as that now genera…
> Most of them left, so maybe that's making it hard for the algorithm, but my feed is now just far right immigration propaganda by blue checks
Working as intended. It has been very clear for a very long time (in “Internet time”) that Mr “Free Speech Absolutist” Musk is only really interested in supporting far right propaganda.
> Not a nice place to be, but I can see how it can be addicting / trigger something in the brain.
Honest question, why would anyone willingly browse X? Why have an account there when it’s not even giving you anything nice? Delete the account. Stop visiting the site.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Yes, let's get the protractors out to find out if the man who's turned Twitter into a far right cesspool, and has served in a far right government, and constantly tweets far right things, may just have far right sympathies. /s Ceasing to believe what your own eyes and ears are telling you, in as far as those things may challenge your political beliefs, is generally a road that leads nowhere good.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
My 'For you' feed is almost exclusively Photography, science and tech news. I believe it strongly depends on what you interact with. At some point I also had a lot of US news in my feed, but once I stopped opening those posts and instead used the 'Not interested in this post' button or muted the author, they disappeared. Probably following other accounts or liking photography posts also helped.
Meh, this borders on victim blaming. You can't deny they've done something to turn it the last few years. And there is no one of my interest left to follow, they've all jumped ship. I checked the "following" tab now, and there is nothing of interest there, they've all left.
I signed up a year ago, so I would not know how Twitter behaved back in the days.
All I am saying is that if you Follow accounts you are interested in and like a few relevant posts, the platform likely becomes quite usable.