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All this talk about demise of twitter, and why ? For me at least personally, the experience is better. No more cult of personalities with "verified" badges and
by inDigiNeous 3y ago
All this talk about demise of twitter, and why ?
For me at least personally, the experience is better.
No more cult of personalities with "verified" badges and wondering who gets it and who does not.
No more censorship of certain people and shadow banning, which is one of the main issues Elon even bought Twitter I think, was to create a censorship free platform for discussion.
The feeds are better, I see less stupid likes like I did for example 1 year ago, when my feed would be full of likes from people I dont care about.
Also, there is the feature of community leaving feedback on the tweet, which can show immediately that okay, this tweet is just wrong.
10 years ago was a different time socially and politically, you cannot go back to that. Also ten years ago twitter had probably much less bots and users also.
- dragontamer 3y agoYou mean like how Elon Musk has shadowbanned pro-Ukrainian talk, such as Kyiv Independent? All pro-Ukrainian sources do not trickle up the timelines anymore. Twitter also puts Ukrainians soldiers petting-puppies and/or showing off their cats behind the age-restriction filters. -------- Before, Twitter had a committee and moderators who you could talk to about these shadowbans and other such moderation decisions. Today, all those have been fired, and strangely pro-Russians are being boosted... while pro-Ukrainians are being shadowbanned.
- valval 3y agoI doubt what you're saying is even close to true. Hand out the evidence.
- dragontamer 3y agohttps://ain.capital/2023/06/07/ukrainians-are-massively-shadowbanned-on-twitter/ https://ain.capital/2023/06/07/ukrainians-are-massively-shad... https://imi.org.ua/en/news/twitter-shadowbans-ukrainians-who-write-about-russians-blowing-up-the-kakhovska-hpp-i53385 https://imi.org.ua/en/news/twitter-shadowbans-ukrainians-who... ----------------- Something like this came up as age-restricted: https://twitter.com/ukraine6679/status/1573928649304276994 https://twitter.com/ukraine6679/status/1573928649304276994
- valval 3y agoA Ukrainian news site seems like great evidence indeed.
- dragontamer 3y agoDo you expect the Russians to talk about Ukrainian accounts getting shadowbanned on Twitter? Of course this news would come from Ukrainian sources. --------------- https://www.reddit.com/r/NAFO/comments/145zfi7/twitter_has_deboosted_nafo_accounts/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NAFO/comments/145zfi7/twitter_has_d... Its pretty obvious too. Traffic to Ukrainian-meme accounts dropped significantly. Anyone following Ukrainian accounts saw traffic go from thousands+ into just single-digits when the deboosting / shadowbans started. I am part of that crowd who visited Ukrainian memes and saw them disappear from Twitter. So consider _ME_ to be a source on this as well.
- philwelch 3y agoMaybe Twitter just stopped artificially boosting pro-Ukraine content.
- dragontamer 3y agoAnd it coincidentally matched all these Ukrainian videos being locked behind age-verification? Again, Ukrainian memes include a bunch of soldiers petting cats or dogs, or helping kids. Its not all frontline war footage. In fact, the meme accounts tend to be more tailored towards the cat videos. The frontline footage accounts absolutely should be age-verified. But the meme accounts getting age-locked proves that Twitter suddenly had a change of heart over Ukrainians.
- philwelch 3y agoI’ve hardly seen any age verification on war content, though to be fair I don’t follow a lot of the propaganda (“meme”) accounts you’re discussing. Also, Twitter doesn’t have an age verification mechanism; it just sort of requires you to click through to see images that have been tagged as sensitive content.
- inDigiNeous 3y agoDon't know about that, but before Musk the shadowbans were just a theory and I remember Jack Dorsey even denying existence of them. The committee twitter had before was in close collaboration with FBI. Currently twitter is one of the only of the bigger social medias, where you can even discuss controversial topics and see discussion around those.
- dragontamer 3y agoBetter to be in collaboration with FBI than the current set of Twitter executives who seem to be pushing pro-Russian talking points and shadow-banning Ukrainians.
- vGPU 3y agoAgreed. I only started using twitter after the changes musk made. I found it absolutely intolerable previously. The search feature needs a complete overhaul though, and despite musk’s claims of cracking down on spam I still see far too many crypto spammers every day.
- inDigiNeous 3y agoYeah, must be a damn big task trying to fix a codebase that is already over 10 years old.