being reminded of usa post 9/11 also not super pleasant
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 15:13 (six months ago) link
all I see on there is stuff about Jada Smith and Joe Budden
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 15:17 (six months ago) link
that does sound nice
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 15:21 (six months ago) link
does it, though
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:07 (six months ago) link
you know how much i love joe budden updates
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:27 (six months ago) link
I’ve always been very careful about who I follow or allow to follow me so my bad experiences so far have been limited to seeing TERF shite (which is bad enough) but I will not watch any of the horrible Middle East snuff clips doing the rounds or explore I/P stuff from bots/new accounts/trolls. I’ve had over a decade of figuring out who is or isn’t full of shit.
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:58 (six months ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 11, 2023 11:13 AM (one hour ago)
this is a not-confined-to-twitter otm
― rob, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 17:09 (six months ago) link
Even after 9/11 there were cursory attempts to protect Muslims from collective blame
I’m not seeing that here
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 17:25 (six months ago) link
i've noticed my usage really dropping off in the last month or so. and not even for morals or mental health reasons, more just boredom with it, lack of engagement (I don't know if "shadowbanning" is real but I did notice that after I got banned for impersonating Elon Musk in the post-bluecheck mania and saying that the Twitter team was hard at work so "Two Against Nature" by Steely Dan would autoplay while you were using the app my engagements and views of my tweets were down radically)
which actually might be a worse sign for the platform, indifference is deadlier than outrage
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 18:52 (six months ago) link
yeah I just checked and I'm seeing all of one single tweet about the baseball games over the last few hours which given the people I follow is pretty surprising. its not at all like previous years. no one wants to tweet these days
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 October 2023 03:56 (six months ago) link
Ad tweets are showing up in my timeline again, I hope adblock and ublock can keep up with filtering those out. It took a couple of weeks last time Twxttxr made a change.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Thursday, 12 October 2023 21:22 (six months ago) link
I got an anti-vax ad yesterday, don't recall the last time I reported an ad
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 12 October 2023 21:27 (six months ago) link
no one wants to tweet these days
The great X-it
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 12 October 2023 22:13 (six months ago) link
Threads seems to be picking up steam in the last couple days, posters are reaching out to find people with similar interests and the app added edit and voice functions
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 12 October 2023 22:50 (six months ago) link
bluesky still nice but this “Ned” is a main character on my feed?!
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 13 October 2023 02:22 (six months ago) link
Wish we could get to the bottom of who this Ned is
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 13 October 2023 03:12 (six months ago) link
is anyone else seeing "RT" at the start of every retweet like it's 2010 again?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 13 October 2023 14:01 (six months ago) link
I just figured that meant it was Russian propaganda
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 13 October 2023 14:02 (six months ago) link
seems to be down at the moment, can't get anything to load
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 13 October 2023 14:09 (six months ago) link
xpost- which is even weirder since they've now renamed it "repost" instead of "retweet"
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 13 October 2023 14:10 (six months ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, October 13, 2023 10:01 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
ive seen that bug before manual rts are still operating deep within the system
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 October 2023 18:27 (six months ago) link
only they can save us
― mark s, Friday, 13 October 2023 18:38 (six months ago) link
XP GOT A WHOLE LOTTA NED *bwroaur* "it's time to get the NED out!" jk i like the ned for sure.
yeah for me it's like ned/gaiman duopoly enterprise, but the gaimans are v perseverative, ned is funny and informative.
i am so bad at socials, i ventured into mastodon in a similar non-custodial non-curated way and it is now controlled by a nice enough person i will call antlady-- i have no idea why she is there. but i learned a bit about bugs.
― i'd meet u where u are, but that place really sucks (Hunt3r), Friday, 13 October 2023 18:46 (six months ago) link
xxp yup the original retrofit of "RT" as real links in the table is still pretty fundamental to how retweets work in the backend. so i'm sure this is a bug (looks like it's fixed now).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 13 October 2023 18:50 (six months ago) link
We should invite this Ned guy to ILX
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 13 October 2023 19:00 (six months ago) link
I think he used to post a lot on ILTWITTER iirc.
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 October 2023 19:30 (six months ago) link
xxp yup the original retrofit of "RT" as real links in the table is still pretty fundamental to how retweets work in the backend.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, October 13, 2023 2:50 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
stuff like this is so funny like if you were making some lil app for hundreds of users youd be embarrassed to put a weird design like that in there but there it is in one of the biggest sites in the world just cause of circumstances a decade+ ago
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 October 2023 19:34 (six months ago) link
it's backward compatible and if they ever turn sms notifications back on it's legible (lol)
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 13 October 2023 19:37 (six months ago) link
that should be musks next move going back to sms and 140 chars
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 October 2023 19:38 (six months ago) link
i think twitter usernames are still limited to 15 chars because sms is limited to 160 chars and tweets used to be 140 + a couple of bytes for "RT ", etc.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 13 October 2023 19:48 (six months ago) link
its kinda like how the entire consumer financial architecture in the US is built around a piece of plastic from the 60s
― 龜, Friday, 13 October 2023 20:03 (six months ago) link
when is the government gonna need to start recycling social security numbers?
― 龜, Friday, 13 October 2023 20:04 (six months ago) link
Well you know.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 October 2023 20:11 (six months ago) link
As it has been ordained so shall it be forward, controlling the internet again. mark s has thoughts on this.
Should I join bluesky? I actually found a way to make my own and was thinking of launching that. I just have to figure out how to make it work and fix it.
― dan selzer, Friday, 13 October 2023 21:27 (six months ago) link
I say yes, it's a perfectly adequate twitter substitute. user base is growing at a very fast base, for better or worse.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 13 October 2023 21:31 (six months ago) link
pace! pace!
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 13 October 2023 21:32 (six months ago) link
dan, we’ve got a rolling list of invite codes on the bluesky thread if you’re interested
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 13 October 2023 21:52 (six months ago) link
Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X, though traffic from the platform was small already and accounted for just under two percent of traffic before the posting stopped.
https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 October 2023 22:10 (six months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ewVZ46Z.png
the facebookification of twitter.com
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 00:18 (six months ago) link
I need catturd2’s engagement numbers to know for sure. How we interpret those numbers is yet to be determined
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 00:45 (six months ago) link
someone get turd on the horn
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 00:47 (six months ago) link
lol our already successful efforts
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:nont2yyr6zgjd6bryhn7aw7b/bafkreiagikigbisidznv5t7qmi5kxi7cp4v3khbufkmglzn66b4x7twxse@jpeg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 01:40 (six months ago) link
saw an ad with Travis Kelce in it which had 1000+ comments and I clicked it and it's just a bunch of blue checks calling him "Mr. Pfizer" and accusing him of aiding genocide (via vaccines, not the actual genocide going on right now). every time I go on this app now I immediately regret it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 02:47 (six months ago) link
lol yeah not a cool scene
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 02:49 (six months ago) link
I’m old and Mr. Pfizer still reads as “viagra man” especially as the recent vaccines don’t have a large pfizer quotient? just reads as “hard man”
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 03:07 (six months ago) link
Don't know if this is happening with anyone else but my entire feed is hosed on the android app. Looks fine on desktop browser.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 13:48 (six months ago) link
“hard man”
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 14:11 (six months ago) link
= Best Taylor Bop
when i click through to a tweet posted here i get the last tweet i clicked through from here instead of the one i clicked on, some sort of caching issue
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 14:41 (six months ago) link