Twitter C/D

you guys should start a new social network (facetweet)

And really, my music subreddit was actually targeted by a brigade of very toxic bad faith trolls apparently mainly because of our vocal stance against racism and other forms of bigotry. The admins were no help, the tools they give mods to actually prevent trolls just shitting up a subreddit are pretty weak if they're really determined. And after the trolls made a fake replica of my subreddit and tried to drive users there, they did finally hand my subreddit over to the trolls after I took it private.

that sucks. I really liked FFA.

I like reddit, I like the weirdness of really niche communities. Like r/pickles

lol, sorry dude. fwiw i am about to put in my two weeks at meta.

― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, October 6, 2022 1:59 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

oof.

"oof" or "congrats"? generally life has been better for me post bigtech.

Oh cheers lukas! You on the bird app?

Love the way Notifications are increasingly fucked. Great to find out someone replied to you only days later when you're suddenly told someone liked a reply to the reply to your original tweet.

I am on the bird app! my name here plus a b

I wish there was a better sorting mechanism for replies. As far as I can tell, replies are sorted to prioritize points of view that correspond most closely to my own, which is flattering to my ego but also gives me a false sense of how certain posts are actually perceived.

r/pickles - > r/picklemen ?

this does not bode well for twitter

Musk plans to cut Twitter’s staff by nearly 75% — via ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ https://t.co/IYIqKYyoBa

— Patrick Marley (@patrickdmarley) October 20, 2022

my name here plus a b

blukas?

holy shit xp. i had assumed i left to avoid being part of the low morale/badly paid majority who don't get fired and now you have to work on an alt right cesspool. seems like i actually left to avoid getting fired along with almost everyone else.

how he going to create x if he fires everyone

guess the plan is actually just to cut costs declare twitters business good and sell it

good comment on the twitter blind in response to this article:

"it's like buying an overpriced house and burning down 75% of it to save on electricity and heating, and end up living in the bathroom"

general consensus seems to be that he as an unduly high opinion of twitter's internal documentation and automation if he thinks he can fire 75% of the headcount.

As long as you can leverage your burned-down house for some ridiculous multiple of what you paid for it, it's all good.

He's going to roll out self-driving Twitter.

Or this could just be more bullshit he pulled out of his ass like everything else he says.

blukas?

so close

lubkas

maybe he just thinks the site was more fun when you'd see the fail whale several times a week

i do have some nostalgia for the fail whale

hey lets all use Twitter Blue!!

twitter should randomly go down a few hours a day. it’s help the chronically online have a cooling off period instead of tweeting through it

fwiw twitter has had <1 hour of downtime in the last 7 years or something iirc. it's way better than facebook's uptime for example, despite twitter's reputation for being a shitshow[*]. so there's probably some slack before things get really bad.

but things won't get bad slowly. i.e. it's not going to be a fail whale thing where it deteriorates for some users some of the time. it's going to break eventually.

[*] deserved on the product side, not at all deserved on the eng side.

This is my favorite tweet I saw this week, perfect encapsulation of Twitter 2022. Five years ago it would be utterly inscrutable to me, feels like a line from a Mark Leyner novel or a Mad Lib.

A woman went to a shop to confront her door dash guy so a cat asked why she didn't just do her own shopping and got called ableist

downtime is not bad. continuous uptime on a media known for “storms” of content is bad.

Lady Gaga becomes the latest celebrity to fall into a meme trend of someone posting a picture of a celebrity or 3D-rendered character for humorous effect

ok

your move tiktok

I'd hate to be Lady Gaga right now

I used to think those trending topics were just really poorly written but it's pretty obvious they're just made as obtuse as possible for clicks

my sister was freelancing for twitter writing ad copy that went in the trending list, so m/l the same thing as those, and she said she go to three meetings to come up with some shit like that lol

I wonder what the new 3-d object social media will be called

Is there a setting that I'm missing to stop seeing tweets from people that I don't follow, but have been liked by people I follow? I feel like this is half my feed all of a sudden and it sucks.

switch from home to latests tweets, should be a button at the top somewhere depending on where youre using it

yeah the default is algorithmic timeline but to twitter's credit it is afaik the only social network to retain the option to go back to reverse chronological, and they've been clear they don't plan to remove that option.

till friday

musk has been openly hostile to the algorithmic feed fwiw. he tells people to turn it off all the time.

Very important to fix your Twitter feed:

1. Tap home button.
2. Tap stars on upper right of screen.
3. Select “Latest tweets”.

You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize.

Easy to switch back & forth to see the difference.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022

he's good again

"switch from home to latests tweets, should be a button at the top somewhere depending on where youre using it"

I actually change this quite often to see the differences - I wish Facebook had this

yeah the default is algorithmic timeline but to twitter's credit it is afaik the only social network to retain the option to go back to reverse chronological, and they've been clear they don't plan to remove that option.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, October 26, 2022 10:57 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

instagram has that option but people on the 'gram don't post nearly as much as people on the bird app, so if you go to recent posts, it's all media publications and celebs instead of people in your life.

so instagram's algorithmic feed makes sense to me, but it's still way too easy to miss posts

algorithms can be our friends

slave to the rithm would be a v dadpun but true album drop

I actually change this quite often to see the differences - I wish Facebook had this

Iirc, Facebook does have this, but (annoyingly) it defaults algorithm and makes you change it back to chronological each time you visit.

I do think it's cool that you can refresh your FB feed and get a new set of posts, in case you're bored or whatever. But yeah I've realized that of the 400 or so friends I've got on there I'm really only getting updates from like 50 of them. If you just don't interact with someone you will slowly stop seeing updates about them. But then if you get reminded of them somehow and click their profile you can see what they're up to. Amusingly this means that ILX people make up a decent chunk of my feed because y'all are the people whose stuff I'll like and comment most often

I use FB mostly from my desktop machine and my bookmark is specifically to the chron feed. (Also with FBP to block sponsored posts.) When I use FB on my phone it's always amazing/horrifying to see all the landfill and see the preferred stuff out of order.

Ahh yes, the weird star icon, not anything in settings, thank you!

they really don't want you to use latest tweets, but they also know they'll bleed even more money if they take it away