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I am probably among the very rare ones who had a reverse migration. I had never cared for microblogging social networks before and was fine with just a few anon

I am probably among the very rare ones who had a reverse migration. I had never cared for microblogging social networks before and was fine with just a few anonymous reddit and instagram accounts, but during the acquisition there was so much hullaballoo over it that I decided to give Mastodon a shot. It was, and remains, hilariously inept at content quantity, quality and discovery no matter how many accounts you follow. Then I checked out Twitter (for the first time), and was pleasantly surprised at the relative difference in the quality of discussions and engagement being fed into my home feed. My initial follows were just a bunch of popular professionals and educators in the AI industry but the algorithm expanded to inferred interests of science, sci-fi, business and cyb-sec and managed to keep me hooked on it more than even Reddit (where the quality of posts broadly everywhere have crashed catastrophically). I don't know if this existed before or that they have done something after it transitioned to X - but it's working. There has been a monumental growth in traffic on X despite all the exodus.

foofie 3y ago
> There has been a monumental growth in traffic on X despite all the exodus. I need you to back that up, because everything points towards the exact opposite of what you're claiming. https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/one-year-post-acquisition-x-traffic-and-monthly-active-users-are-in-decline-report-claims/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/one-year-post-acquisition-... Either you're using some alternative version of Twitter, or you're making stuff up.
- EasyMark 3y ago
  There are tons of AI/ML/LLM people on twitter and a lot of them are very active. It's not hard to tune your feed if you mute/block a bunch of garbage that it feeds you by default and "like" the types of posts that you would like to see in your feed. Sure some trash will sneak through, but it will be heavily weighted towards what you have interacted with. They aren't making anything up.
adaptbrian 3y ago
"Hooked on content". Not sure society should have ever gotten to that point. You are talking about a small room of people who made this happen. It started at FB and perpetuated through to other networks. There was a time when everything was waterfall and you had to do a teancy amount of work to find things. (Just click the link in the share which you cant find anymore b.c the networks horde their traffic) Behavioral scientists have ruined social feeds and created conundrums like you describe above.
Mandelmus 3y ago
The Machine Learning community is still overwhelmingly on X, which likely explains your experience. There are other communities, like that of Ape/iOS developers, that have moved to Mastodon, and for which the quality of conversation is now much higher on Mastodon than on X.
rsynnott 3y ago
> There has been a monumental growth in traffic on X despite all the exodus. ... Wait, what makes you think _that_?
jeanloolz 3y ago
I have a similar experience. I never used my twitter account for over 10 years, but strangely I have been the most active I have ever been in the last 12 months (due to interest on AI as well). Maybe this is where the AI/ML community is the most represented.
303uru 3y ago
>hooked on it Yes, that's always been the point with Twitter. No, it was never the point of Mastodon and they've always been transparent about that. Also, why would that be your goal?

foofie 3y ago

> There has been a monumental growth in traffic on X despite all the exodus. I need you to back that up, because everything points towards the exact opposite of what you're claiming. https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/one-year-post-acquisition-x-traffic-and-monthly-active-users-are-in-decline-report-claims/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/one-year-post-acquisition-... Either you're using some alternative version of Twitter, or you're making stuff up.

EasyMark 3y ago
There are tons of AI/ML/LLM people on twitter and a lot of them are very active. It's not hard to tune your feed if you mute/block a bunch of garbage that it feeds you by default and "like" the types of posts that you would like to see in your feed. Sure some trash will sneak through, but it will be heavily weighted towards what you have interacted with. They aren't making anything up.

adaptbrian 3y ago

"Hooked on content". Not sure society should have ever gotten to that point. You are talking about a small room of people who made this happen. It started at FB and perpetuated through to other networks. There was a time when everything was waterfall and you had to do a teancy amount of work to find things. (Just click the link in the share which you cant find anymore b.c the networks horde their traffic) Behavioral scientists have ruined social feeds and created conundrums like you describe above.

Mandelmus 3y ago

The Machine Learning community is still overwhelmingly on X, which likely explains your experience. There are other communities, like that of Ape/iOS developers, that have moved to Mastodon, and for which the quality of conversation is now much higher on Mastodon than on X.

rsynnott 3y ago

> There has been a monumental growth in traffic on X despite all the exodus. ... Wait, what makes you think _that_?

jeanloolz 3y ago

I have a similar experience. I never used my twitter account for over 10 years, but strangely I have been the most active I have ever been in the last 12 months (due to interest on AI as well). Maybe this is where the AI/ML community is the most represented.

303uru 3y ago

>hooked on it Yes, that's always been the point with Twitter. No, it was never the point of Mastodon and they've always been transparent about that. Also, why would that be your goal?