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Here’s a different take on the situation: I think this is bad for Twitter. Twitter has started building and shipping incredibly well, they’re getting more produ
by nscalf 5y ago
Here’s a different take on the situation: I think this is bad for Twitter. Twitter has started building and shipping incredibly well, they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing. I was very confident in the trajectory they were going in.
For all the toxicity people complain about with Twitter, I remember the early days. They’ve made huge progress in community quality.
Most importantly, Twitter is the only social media company taking real action on the addiction and mental health impacts. You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed. You can pay to remove some ads. They’re not perfect, but they’ve done much more than anyone else.
Beyond all of that, I think Jack was the most trustworthy figure running social media. Not a super high bar, but he was willing to engage with the topic deeply. I think he did Rogan’s podcast twice, the second time shortly after the first because the feedback was that they didn’t engage critically enough. That’s ~6 hours of fairly open conversation, most people stick to 5 minute news segments.
- tehbeard 5y ago> You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed It's been pretty persistent in forgetting that I want chronological....
- wastedhours 5y agoAlthough influential, surely Twitter's recent run isn't because of Jack himself, but the new culture he instigated? Him leaving doesn't change the dynamic there now, just another person who's been influential in the process signing off on the big ticket things.
- nscalf 5y agoThat's a good point, I hadn't thought of it that way.
- user-the-name 5y ago> they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing None of them are products people actually want. They're killing them off as fast as they are launching them. > You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed. You always have been able to, but they have incessantly pushed you to not use it. They used to keep automatically switching you away from the chronological one every few weeks of use. They've stopped doing that but that is such a minimum effort thing I do not want to give them any credit for fixing the thing they broke on purpose.
- nscalf 5y agoI really like the audio rooms, and use it pretty frequently. I want the decentralized Twitter option they're exploring with "project bluesky".
- user-the-name 5y agoDecentralised Twitter already exists in the form of ActivityPub. Twitter itself has been at this for two years now and have nothing whatsoever to show for it. They are not serious about it.
- lobocinza 5y agoIt keeps showing me fake notifications that in fact are recent posts from influencers that I don't follow and have no interest in doing so. Or at least it was because I stopped using it.