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Right. The best balance is to be more lenient on speech moderation, but have fewer algorithmic recommendations and push less "controversial" or popular content
by concinds 4y ago
Right. The best balance is to be more lenient on speech moderation, but have fewer algorithmic recommendations and push less "controversial" or popular content onto users' feeds.
- jeffbee 4y agoSee, this right here is where you lost me. > fewer algorithmic recommendations and push less "controversial" or popular content onto users' feeds. There is not ANY 'algorithmic' content on my Twitter feed. Zero! What are you referring to?!
- concinds 4y agoI'm not referring to the "X liked this tweet" feature, which is from my circle. Twitter added a Topics feature, where it promotes popular tweets. I'll often see random tweets with >100k likes inserted into my feed, though none of the people I follow liked it, and it's not in my interests. You'll also see such "popular tweets" when you click on any tweet and scroll past the replies. Doesn't always show (especially when there's tons of replies), but it gives you random tweets from outside your circle. One interesting feature is the "What's happening" (formerly Trends/Hashtags) section on the right, which shows random news stories. They're not determined by popularity, but by fiat; the list is now manually populated by Twitter employees. (They removed plain hashtags and switched to an editorialized list because Trump supporters managed to get "too many" hashtags going during the 2016 campaign. It still shows hashtags occasionally, but they have to get pre-approved before they appear IIRC.) Many of these new Trends don't show all tweets that match a keword; they just show you tweets from a few people selected by Twitter. These[0] is a good example from today. It's a great feature. Musk could create a Twitter News service (like Google News) and expand on that; it would cut off the "cross-silo" communication further, and would reduce polarization and controversy. [0]: https://twitter.com/i/events/1585823974868414464 https://twitter.com/i/events/1585823974868414464 and https://twitter.com/i/events/1586015934141153284 https://twitter.com/i/events/1586015934141153284
- jeffbee 4y ago> Twitter added a Topics feature, where it promotes popular tweets. I have never seen this. It turns out to be buried under a "more" menu, so I maintain that this is a niche feature that you'd need to go out of your way to suffer. > You'll also see such "popular tweets" when you click on any tweet and scroll past the replies. No, I don't. I don't see anything like that. I just get to the bottom of the replies. When do you see this? I don't even see it on a tweet with zero replies. No random tweets, just blank space.
- concinds 4y ago> It turns out to be buried under a "more" menu, so I maintain that this is a niche feature that you'd need to go out of your way to suffer. I never turned it on or tapped on it, and don't follow any topics. It still intersperses "Comedy", "Crypto", and "Movies" tweets (labelled as such) into my main timeline. And I don't know why you don't see "popular tweets" (it's actually "More tweets", I misspoke). I've been seeing those for years in the exact same context I described.