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Most people aren't willing to spend so much time and energy working against the algorithm that's deliberately trying to push this content that people loathe. If
by danudey 3y ago
Most people aren't willing to spend so much time and energy working against the algorithm that's deliberately trying to push this content that people loathe. If I have to see a bunch of toxic BS in my timeline, and spend my time blocking people, reporting them, etc., only to see more of the same moments later, what's the point?
The problem is that there is a clash between what users want to see and what the company's algorithm wants you to see, and it seems like there's strong evidence to conclude that Musk and his platform are trying to push the kinds of things that a lot of people don't want to see.
So yes, you can spend the time and energy to self-curate and find people who have interesting opinions. I could also go to a white supremacist march and find people who have interesting things to say about classic Dr Who episodes or who have the same passion for Dungeons and Dragons as I do, but I'm not going to tolerate all that toxic crazy to find them when I can go literally anywhere else. In the end, you're still stuck in a cesspool trying to filter out the content that Twitter really, really wants you to see. If I have to work at not seeing the stuff I've explicitly chosen to see, I'm going to find anywhere else (or nowhere).
- luxuryballs 3y agoI’m curious what kind of content this tends to be, I am not a frequent Twitter user but the content moderation doesn’t seem to be wildly different than before. What kind of toxic BS are you seeing that was previously not there?