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Twitter Is Going to Limit the Visibility of Tweets from People Behaving Badly
- CM30 8y agoDon't they already do this? Heard comments about being 'shadowbanned' on Twitter for years, and it seems like something similar is being used on the platform right now. That said, given their current practices for shadow banning range from politically biased (note how more often it is that a right wing troll gets banned compared to the left wing one) or broken (seen both innocent accounts banned and people banned for using the word 'thanks' in a Tweet), this seems like a bad idea all round.
- drngdds 8y agoIt seems bad that huge centralized social networks like Twitter have such societal influence and can unilaterally decide to do stuff like this, and all users can do is trust them not to fuck it up. There's an obvious way around this: use a decentralized, open source social network like Mastodon or Pleroma instead. You don't have to trust any one group not to screw things up, because you can just switch instances or forks if they do. But unfortunately, because of network effects, alternative social networks are not very good for people who care about reaching a very wide audience.
- mrguyorama 8y agoI understand the desire for uncensorable communities like that, but how do you suggest decentralized systems combat the "un-moderated communities tend towards hate filled dumpster fires" problem? Even light touch moderated communities tend to be more cesspool than not.