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> I feel like all this "twitter is a hellscape now" is posing trying to get back at Musk because his idea about who should be allowed on twitter doesn't match t
by LexiMax 3y ago
> I feel like all this "twitter is a hellscape now" is posing trying to get back at Musk because his idea about who should be allowed on twitter doesn't match theirs. And mainly for politically tribal and partisan reasons, to be blunt.
I'm sure this is true of some people, but the habitual Twitter users I know have basically given up on the site as a shared social space because of changes to the feed algorithm and the blue check system making the sort of social engagement they used to regularly enjoy on the site almost impossible.
- smsm42 3y agoWell, blue check thing is part of the tribal reasons - "the plebes can have the blue checks now, the place is going to hell!". As for the feed algos, there may be some truth to that, I personally have no idea since I never looked at the "feed" - I only ever engaged twitter by using direct links or reading the twitstream of specific people I was interested in. But I could imagine algorithm changes could ruin somebody's carefully constructed bubble and that could be upsetting. The reasons given in the article though have a strong political bent.
- LexiMax 3y ago> But I could imagine algorithm changes could ruin somebody's carefully constructed bubble and that could be upsetting. Well...yeah. That's social media for you. At the end of the day, you have to give people a reason to visit, it can't all be ragebait and crypto-scammers. By all appearances, its utility as a social space has tanked, and that's not a hard sentiment to find even in this comments section. Twitter remains king of being a de-facto centralized RSS feed, but that position is very precarious.