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I blocked him and I don't see his posts any more. What did you try to do? I'm the opposite of an Elon fan, but so many people don't seem to know how to actuall

I blocked him and I don't see his posts any more. What did you try to do? I'm the opposite of an Elon fan, but so many people don't seem to know how to actually use social media. Who/what you follow and who you block can completely change your experience.

isoprophlex 4y ago
I thought I scrubbed things by hitting "I am not interested in Elon Musk". Prompted by your tweet I checked what it says, and the offending post on my timeline has an option "I am not interested in Business People". So that's probably how it got through. I still stand by my grossly hyperbolic diatribe about how twitter is definitely getting shittier, though.
bfeynman 4y ago
Social media growth is all about recommendations and algorithms, people actually curating their network a la 2010 facebook is dead, so your idea of "how to use social media" is also aligned with completely not knowing how to make a growing social media platform where almost >99% of users are consumers and automatically are recommended things and curate their experience implicitly. People do not want to manually do anything for the most part.
- sidfthec 4y ago
  The general issue of forcing recommendations and the general population not doing anything manually anymore is separate from the fact that as an individual you have lots of tools to curate your feeds on twitter/facebook/etc. It's also just really silly to have conversations like: "I can't stand seeing Elon on my feed!" "Have you blocked him?" "No"
  - bfeynman 4y ago
    You're missing the point, recommender algorithms are supposed to show people what they want. Even if what you said is true, the experience is absolutely doomed, because its a shitty UX
    - sidfthec 4y ago
      It's three clicks to block someone. That's bad UX? (three dot menu -> block @whoever -> confirm).
oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
> so many people don't seem to know how to actually use social media Because social media (well, Twitter at least) gets ever more opaque and unpredictable. I blame the social media, not the users.

isoprophlex 4y ago

I thought I scrubbed things by hitting "I am not interested in Elon Musk". Prompted by your tweet I checked what it says, and the offending post on my timeline has an option "I am not interested in Business People". So that's probably how it got through. I still stand by my grossly hyperbolic diatribe about how twitter is definitely getting shittier, though.

bfeynman 4y ago

Social media growth is all about recommendations and algorithms, people actually curating their network a la 2010 facebook is dead, so your idea of "how to use social media" is also aligned with completely not knowing how to make a growing social media platform where almost >99% of users are consumers and automatically are recommended things and curate their experience implicitly. People do not want to manually do anything for the most part.

sidfthec 4y ago
The general issue of forcing recommendations and the general population not doing anything manually anymore is separate from the fact that as an individual you have lots of tools to curate your feeds on twitter/facebook/etc. It's also just really silly to have conversations like: "I can't stand seeing Elon on my feed!" "Have you blocked him?" "No"
- bfeynman 4y ago
  You're missing the point, recommender algorithms are supposed to show people what they want. Even if what you said is true, the experience is absolutely doomed, because its a shitty UX
  - sidfthec 4y ago
    It's three clicks to block someone. That's bad UX? (three dot menu -> block @whoever -> confirm).

oneeyedpigeon 4y ago

> so many people don't seem to know how to actually use social media Because social media (well, Twitter at least) gets ever more opaque and unpredictable. I blame the social media, not the users.