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.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Sunday, 22 January 2023 03:06 (one year ago) link
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!
― koogs, Sunday, 22 January 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
i din't know there was a facebook extension-- as someone who feels forced there for family purposes, will check thx
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Sunday, 22 January 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 22 January 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 22 January 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 22 January 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 22 January 2023 23:29 (one year ago) link
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.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 22 January 2023 23:41 (one year ago) link
Now it is automatically starting in For You every time I open the app. WTF!?!
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 22 January 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 22 January 2023 23:55 (one year ago) link
here are the first two posts suggested for me on my algorithmic timeline. great stuff.
https://i.imgur.com/ezMC3mB.png
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 22 January 2023 23:56 (one year ago) link
lol wow
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 January 2023 23:57 (one year ago) link
Well, i guess we know Nitasha Tiku and Will Oremus are dickheads, if nothing else.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 23 January 2023 00:11 (one year ago) link
they are both extremely musk skeptical tech journalists fwiw
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 January 2023 00:13 (one year ago) link
Again, that whole mars catalog guy is really, hopelessly, in love with Elon. I wish him much happiness bearing musk’s strange children
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 23 January 2023 00:48 (one year ago) link
feel like nitasha tiku is a dickhead nevertheless but i can't remember quite why and perhaps i'm confused
see also leah finnegan
― mookieproof, Monday, 23 January 2023 02:08 (one year ago) link
This is kind of how it feels for everyone on Twitter.
― George Santos' If I Could Only Remember My Name - C or D? (President Keyes), Monday, 23 January 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
tiku is a totally normal good reporter
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 January 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
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”
― mh, Monday, 23 January 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
Yes I am. You follow these fuckers, you give them oxygen. You can see what they tweet without following them.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 23 January 2023 20:44 (one year ago) link
If you're a tech or crypto/finance reporter, following the scum is part of your job, no?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 23 January 2023 20:49 (one year ago) link
lol
― mh, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
I said "confusing" not "conflating"
― mh, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
does this extend to reporters showing up to cover political events? they're bumping up the number of audience members!
― mh, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
social media is different than that obviously but this whole digression is incredibly tedious imo
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 23 January 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
on that I concur
twitter official client isn't as bad as I remember but I'm mourning Tweetbot with Jeff
― mh, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link
I tried something called Birdie and it was terrible.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 00:19 (one year ago) link
heh heh heh
https://t.co/oKYViTvUrq pic.twitter.com/4Znr4PtmYF— mansur (@mansurshaheen) January 24, 2023
― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 03:55 (one year ago) link
Tweetdeck still works but I guess that's because Twitter owns it?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 03:58 (one year ago) link
Yup. (That was always the client I used, FWIW.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 04:01 (one year ago) link
https://www.ft.com/content/3cb1c98d-2f83-4838-9370-3f6817de6278
article about esther crawford - not really much here i think, other than that she comes from a family of christian cultists, which totally makes sense
I grew up in a cult. We had lots of rules (can’t cut hair, no makeup, no pants, no tv, no secular music, etc) and hierarchical leadership. We believed it was the “end times” so I lived in fear of doing anything wrong & being left behind. I exited on my own when I was 19. https://t.co/t6u7VlJE0T pic.twitter.com/0EzfqBICbA— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) April 16, 2022
― 龜, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
Replacing one cult with another.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
one cultor anotherthey're gonna find you
― def jeftones (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
Meet the new cult, same as the old cult
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link
CultGonna give it upOr they'll take your life away
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
Her ideas have not always been welcomed. Crawford was among the proponents for Twitter’s controversial and now-halted plan to introduce a feature that would allow users to offer videos of adult content behind a paywall similar to that posted on subscriptions site OnlyFans, according to two people familiar with the matter.
lol chickened out on Elon's only idea that would actually make money
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
only took 15 years to use a font that wont let you play the replace lowercase l with uppercase i trick
https://i.imgur.com/vyh6D1Z.png
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
― The Big Candy-O (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 January 2023 13:57 (one year ago) link
when i click on a notification now for who likes my tweets, it takes me to my tweet where i have click on the likes to see the full list. 2 clicks where before it was 1 click.
― 龜, Monday, 30 January 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
more clicking = more hardcore
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 30 January 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link
see like this is a potential twitter killer tho it will prob be terrible but still you cant just copy
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are back with a new company. I talked to Systrom about their first app: Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text https://t.co/oYmMNQPLew pic.twitter.com/yKwKy5VnqI— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) January 31, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
btw i invented that idea ten years ago https://web.archive.org/web/20140910184737/https://joe-sch.kinja.com/i-fixed-twitter-totally-algorithmic-twitter-1631099310
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 20:26 (one year ago) link
I predict a social media site where users can only post symbols/emojis etc, no text. Maybe it already exists!
― a mix between aphex twin and nirvana with the swagger of count basie (Matt #2), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
xp that’s what I call good kinja
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
tyvm
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 20:56 (one year ago) link
― a mix between aphex twin and nirvana with the swagger of count basie (Matt #2), Tuesday, January 31, 2023 3:50 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
remember yo
i was gonna cite yo
did anyone ever use it? i've never heard from anyone who signed up
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link
i had it i sent some yos
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link
i always thought how that one came together was "hey - what if when you're outside someone's apartment you could just send them a 'yo' with an app? there's probably a million other ways it could be used like that too!"
but then it turned out that there was only one use case, and they had already thought of it
xpost did you ever use it in a situation that wasn't letting someone know you were at their apartment?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 21:01 (one year ago) link
i just did it for fun, iirc obvs it started as a joke but then they came up with the more serious use case of having accounts that were called like "its going to rain in cleveland today" and when that was true they would send you a yo, not sure if that ever happened tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link