Twitter C/D

get him to the greek is so bad it tries to have a message and make his character learn things, all wrong! what a disappointment

yeah the parody rock guy persona doesn't work if you do more than allude to it, making it explicit was a bad choice

diddy was the best character in that one

itt: ppl brazenly re-entering the vampire castle

oh yeah, that thing no one seems able to explain

Is t that Andrew

itt: ppl brazenly re-entering the vampire castle

Like Twitter, I guess, Insta is all about curating the feed. I mostly get rad stuff from friends, artists, publishers I like, and trans teenagers posting outrageous shitposting memes.

https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/#eulogy

It’s over.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/twitter-is-down-to-fewer-than-550-full-time-engineers.html

the hardcore pledge thing was so fn funny "i will have them click a button and then the company will be hardcore"

Like "Doom" difficulty settings.

tbf they have indeed hurt me plenty

Like Twitter, I guess, Insta is all about curating the feed. I mostly get rad stuff from friends, artists, publishers I like, and trans teenagers posting outrageous shitposting memes.

― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, January 20, 2023 1:11 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I wish I could see shit from accounts I actually follow, the whole thing is so shitted up with ads, suggested posts and reels

The chrome extension one of you mentioned way back still works well for me, totally locked down, only what I want to see, etc. I don't use the app or check twitter on my phone.

xp if you tap on the Instagram logo you can switch to “following”

Ha well shit that does work

IIRC, someone here (Mike, maybe) predicted that Twitter would quickly shutter their generous media uploads. It appears that’s happened. Try copying an image from a browser tab (“Copy Image”) then pasting it into a tweet. It now pastes the URL rather than the image.

still works on web, i copied a picture of henry kissinger

HK is the only exception.

For You can fuck off

It's been switching over to For You quite a bit too, very stupid

I don't engage at all on twitter, just read the posts, and the app doesn't default to a choice for me, it stays with what I pick

I've recently been liking "For You" more than "Following", but I look at both

The chrome extension one of you mentioned way back still works well for me, totally locked down, only what I want to see, etc. I don't use the app or check twitter on my phone.

checked account this morning. "Following" has no posts in four days. "Home" has multiple posts from yesterday from people that i follow... can't both be true. (Facebook is the same). just give me reverse chronological!

i din't know there was a facebook extension-- as someone who feels forced there for family purposes, will check thx

I come and go with actual twitter but even during periods where I wasn’t reading it, I follow a handful of people via my rss reader feedbin. Easy way to jay get a couple of accounts you want to read and not go there.

it's just one climate dude's experience, but i've been following him for several years (he posts a lot of climate change visualizations with regular updates) and he's not one to complain much about climate deniers

This is a pretty unassuming climate tweet, but look at the replies… This website has become such a mess. https://t.co/YCfxjuSYqm

— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) January 22, 2023

Not sure I've ever seen any video/forum post/article/etc. on climate change (outside of Gawker comments and ILX, though maybe we had a denier or two at some point) that didn't have a wide variety of assholes in the comments and replies.

it's one of the constants in life for sure

i think the point of his tweet is that it has gotten notably worse on twitter, at least for him

My guess is that the continual push to "For You" is an attempt to hide the total lack of activity compared to your usual feed; predicting "tumbleweeds" will trend soon.

Now it is automatically starting in For You every time I open the app. WTF!?!

yep, that change landed about a week back. not clear if it's deliberate or them shipping a bug. musk claims it's going to be reverted, but he also claims he's going to solve traffic with used sewer drills.

here are the first two posts suggested for me on my algorithmic timeline. great stuff.

https://i.imgur.com/ezMC3mB.png

lol wow

Well, i guess we know Nitasha Tiku and Will Oremus are dickheads, if nothing else.

they are both extremely musk skeptical tech journalists fwiw

Again, that whole mars catalog guy is really, hopelessly, in love with Elon. I wish him much happiness bearing musk’s strange children

feel like nitasha tiku is a dickhead nevertheless but i can't remember quite why and perhaps i'm confused

see also leah finnegan

feel like nitasha tiku is a dickhead nevertheless but i can't remember quite why and perhaps i'm confused

This is kind of how it feels for everyone on Twitter.

tiku is a totally normal good reporter

are some of you guys really confusing “reporter follows stupid account to see what stupid shit they tweet” with “reporter believes stupid account is good”

Yes I am. You follow these fuckers, you give them oxygen. You can see what they tweet without following them.

If you're a tech or crypto/finance reporter, following the scum is part of your job, no?

lol

I said "confusing" not "conflating"

does this extend to reporters showing up to cover political events? they're bumping up the number of audience members!

social media is different than that obviously but this whole digression is incredibly tedious imo

on that I concur

twitter official client isn't as bad as I remember but I'm mourning Tweetbot with Jeff

I tried something called Birdie and it was terrible.

heh heh heh

https://t.co/oKYViTvUrq pic.twitter.com/4Znr4PtmYF

— mansur (@mansurshaheen) January 24, 2023

Tweetdeck still works but I guess that's because Twitter owns it?