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I don’t know if you’ve been on X lately but even if not following him you can receive push notifications from his tweets. Tested this on multiple accounts now,

I don’t know if you’ve been on X lately but even if not following him you can receive push notifications from his tweets. Tested this on multiple accounts now, he’s unavoidable unless blocked and sometimes not even then because of all the bootlicker accounts that screenshot and repost his tweets. Frankly it’s made the platform unusable to me, almost nothing he posts is interesting or worth reading.

Aeolun 2y ago
Why be on X in the first place? I lost all reason to be there about around the time of the rename.
- 1oooqooq 2y ago
  exactly! reading xitter today is worse than daytime television. contributing to it's content pool is just counter intuitive.
  - loceng 2y ago
    So my understanding is Elon reduced the algorithm's bubble effect - causing people to be exposed to contrarian content, content a person doesn't agree with, so that it would be witnessed by more people. Do you think it's a problem that people are coddled in bubbles?
    - lupire 2y ago
      Do you think it's a problem that people are inundated with rage bait and scams? That's it's own "bubble". People aren't getting educational and uplifting material shoved into their feeds.
- Washuu 2y ago
  If you are a content creator on Twitch or YouTube you pretty are being held hostage on Twitter due to critical mass. Migrating would require a mass protest of large content creators to choose a new platform and move over all at once.
- exe34 2y ago
  It's his personal blog, and he allows the plebs to post comments.
- dorfsmay 2y ago
  A lot of scientists and journalists have not moved to other platforms. I tried to use instagram instead but the algorithmic injection of content and a terrible UI make it unusable for me. I find using Twitter in the "following" mode, as opposed to the default "for you", I get a lot of value content and almost no noise.
  - hcurtiss 2y ago
    Even Musk has recommended doing this.
  - HKH2 2y ago
    Yeah Instagram's algorithm is garbage. I get repetitive generic content no matter what. It doesn't seem responsive at all.
rendall 2y ago
I just have Musk muted and I never, ever see his posts nor retweets.
- wokwokwok 2y ago
  I stopped using X because it was literally impossible to not see his posts. /shrug My partner has the same. …but, to be fair, who knows what different variants of the platform are given to different people in different regions at different times.
loceng 2y ago
Should a person with the most followers in the world have more people seeing, to then be able to know what they are sharing or saying, to then have more eyeballs to scrutinize them? Should they have more or less eyeballs witnessing them, and responding to them? I'd rather see what they are saying directly vs. seeing other articles about him that are most likely propaganda nowadays with how corrupted the media currently is, hence partly why ELon felt compelled to buy Twitter-X to begin with. But fair enough, blocking him then could make sense.

Aeolun 2y ago

Why be on X in the first place? I lost all reason to be there about around the time of the rename.

1oooqooq 2y ago
exactly! reading xitter today is worse than daytime television. contributing to it's content pool is just counter intuitive.
- loceng 2y ago
  So my understanding is Elon reduced the algorithm's bubble effect - causing people to be exposed to contrarian content, content a person doesn't agree with, so that it would be witnessed by more people. Do you think it's a problem that people are coddled in bubbles?
  - lupire 2y ago
    Do you think it's a problem that people are inundated with rage bait and scams? That's it's own "bubble". People aren't getting educational and uplifting material shoved into their feeds.
Washuu 2y ago
If you are a content creator on Twitch or YouTube you pretty are being held hostage on Twitter due to critical mass. Migrating would require a mass protest of large content creators to choose a new platform and move over all at once.
exe34 2y ago
It's his personal blog, and he allows the plebs to post comments.
dorfsmay 2y ago
A lot of scientists and journalists have not moved to other platforms. I tried to use instagram instead but the algorithmic injection of content and a terrible UI make it unusable for me. I find using Twitter in the "following" mode, as opposed to the default "for you", I get a lot of value content and almost no noise.
- hcurtiss 2y ago
  Even Musk has recommended doing this.
- HKH2 2y ago
  Yeah Instagram's algorithm is garbage. I get repetitive generic content no matter what. It doesn't seem responsive at all.

rendall 2y ago

I just have Musk muted and I never, ever see his posts nor retweets.

wokwokwok 2y ago
I stopped using X because it was literally impossible to not see his posts. /shrug My partner has the same. …but, to be fair, who knows what different variants of the platform are given to different people in different regions at different times.

loceng 2y ago

Should a person with the most followers in the world have more people seeing, to then be able to know what they are sharing or saying, to then have more eyeballs to scrutinize them? Should they have more or less eyeballs witnessing them, and responding to them? I'd rather see what they are saying directly vs. seeing other articles about him that are most likely propaganda nowadays with how corrupted the media currently is, hence partly why ELon felt compelled to buy Twitter-X to begin with. But fair enough, blocking him then could make sense.