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Musk has done a lot of questionable things, but does anyone remember how actually unusable twitter was before the sale? Musk Twitter has its own set of problems

Musk has done a lot of questionable things, but does anyone remember how actually unusable twitter was before the sale? Musk Twitter has its own set of problems but Jack has proved he has no idea what he's doing

hedora 3y ago
At this point, whenever I go to twitter, it shows status updates that are years out of date. For example, compare this: https://ubuntu.social/@launchpadstatus https://ubuntu.social/@launchpadstatus to this: https://twitter.com/launchpadstatus?lang=en https://twitter.com/launchpadstatus?lang=en
- internetter 3y ago
  This is because you are logged out. Please note that this is not me advocating for this practice. It has broken the web in immensely frustrating ways.
  - hedora 3y ago
    Given that it appears to be completely broken (last tweet for that account was 6 hours ago, and it's showing a 6 month old cached version), why would I bother creating an account?
    - internetter 3y ago
      I agree. It's ridiculous. I was simply explaining why this behaviour happened.
    - biggestfan 3y ago
      When you're not logged in, the profile view shows you the most liked posts from that account, not the most recent. Not sure why.
frankjr 3y ago
I remember that before the whole fiasco of a sale Twitter was a place where I could follow interesting tech people. These days those people have left for Mastodon etc. (or stopped posting entirely) and were replaced with hoards of $8 spammers whose only interest is to push inflammatory content to generate the most views and get paid for it.
timeon 3y ago
> how actually unusable twitter was before the sale? I do not know how usable it was but at least I was able to see the posts. Now I'm not. Well except for some lucky occasion when it shows the post just without replies.
psionides 3y ago
… no? It was very usable before, it's much less usable now.
TillE 3y ago
Dorsey isn't running Bluesky, he's just one member of the board.

hedora 3y ago

At this point, whenever I go to twitter, it shows status updates that are years out of date. For example, compare this: https://ubuntu.social/@launchpadstatus https://ubuntu.social/@launchpadstatus to this: https://twitter.com/launchpadstatus?lang=en https://twitter.com/launchpadstatus?lang=en

internetter 3y ago
This is because you are logged out. Please note that this is not me advocating for this practice. It has broken the web in immensely frustrating ways.
- hedora 3y ago
  Given that it appears to be completely broken (last tweet for that account was 6 hours ago, and it's showing a 6 month old cached version), why would I bother creating an account?
  - internetter 3y ago
    I agree. It's ridiculous. I was simply explaining why this behaviour happened.
  - biggestfan 3y ago
    When you're not logged in, the profile view shows you the most liked posts from that account, not the most recent. Not sure why.

frankjr 3y ago

I remember that before the whole fiasco of a sale Twitter was a place where I could follow interesting tech people. These days those people have left for Mastodon etc. (or stopped posting entirely) and were replaced with hoards of $8 spammers whose only interest is to push inflammatory content to generate the most views and get paid for it.

timeon 3y ago

> how actually unusable twitter was before the sale? I do not know how usable it was but at least I was able to see the posts. Now I'm not. Well except for some lucky occasion when it shows the post just without replies.

psionides 3y ago

… no? It was very usable before, it's much less usable now.

TillE 3y ago

Dorsey isn't running Bluesky, he's just one member of the board.