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Alex Jones using Twitter/X is on-brand.
by AdamN 2y ago
Alex Jones using Twitter/X is on-brand.
- ixtli 2y agoI hadn't realized how hilarious this is until now
- pipeline_peak 2y ago> Twitter/X Why not call it one or the other?
- chairmansteve 2y agoCall it Twitter. Everyone knows what you mean, and it annoys Elon.
- seanw444 2y agoI'm not even your average Elon hater, and I still think X is a stupid name. Dude should've just kept the name and brand that everyone knows already.
- slt2021 2y agoold good ole Twitter was when your feed was only those you followed. new X is when your feed what Elon wants you to see and react to.
- pohl 2y agoI was pleasantly surprised to discover that Bluesky behaves like the Twitter of yore where you see only who you follow.
- Sohcahtoa82 2y agoThis is misleading. At the top of the feed, there are two tabs: "For you" and "Following". If you select "Following", then you only see people you follow.
- slt2021 2y agoa lot of people use the For You feed by default, since Titter makes it very inconvenient to use Following: - cannot disable/hide For you - always default for you, and no way to default to Following
- riffraff 2y agobut you don't see _all_ from the people you follow in "following", some end up in "for you". So if you want to see stuff from people you follow you need to look at the rage-bait from the algorithmic feed.
- astrange 2y agoEver since they introduced that, it tries hard to switch you back to for you and has never let you stay away from it permanently.
- hughesjj 2y agoI never used Twitter but I left Facebook for exactly that reason. I just want to keep up with my friends. I don't want to constantly see whatever narrative some corporate media entity is pushing.
- dmonitor 2y agoTwitter stopped doing the "follower feed" thing for years before Elon bought the website. The propaganda has gotten much worse, but let's not pretend Twitter wasn't widely considered the worst website on the face of the planet (except Facebook) even before Elon took over
- slt2021 2y ago1. I think the main thing is that Elon's own tweets are almost always make it to global broadcast via For You feed. 2. This effectively makes everyone see whatever Musk personally likes/retweets 3. It is soft of correct that there is more freedom of speech due to slashing/nonexistent moderation 4. But because algo promotes whatever Musk retweets, it makes Musk chief in charge of the algorithm. Whatever Musk likes - will be shown to everyone. 5. Because the rest of the feed is noise and garbage, this effectively makes Musk inject a strong signal to a feed and makes him a moderator. If censors previously would censor by deleting posts, he censors by throwing garbage and noisy posts and sprinkling signal in a few places
- astrange 2y agoYou can block him and that doesn't happen. The main problem is the algorithm is wildly oversensitive and will show you 100 of any one thing you linger on for too long. Same thing happens with competitors though. That's all Threads is. I enabled Bluesky's occasional algorithm posts in the following feed and it will not stop trying to show me hardcore gay porn I very much didn't ask for.
- graemep 2y ago> the worst website on the face of the planet (except Facebook) Very much except FB. I see more hate content on FB (which i have to use because of other people) than I do on Twitter on the rare occasions I look at it.
- jowea 2y agoElon just likes X. I feel he bought the entire site in part due to ego. And it was part of the "everything app" branding too IIRC.
- dspillett 2y agoOr "Twitter, the site desperately trying to be know as X".
- hedora 2y agoMy favorite so far is: “The platform [Elon Musk] wants you to call “X” for his own sexual gratification”. It’s admittedly too wordy though. https://www.cahsuesmusk.com/ https://www.cahsuesmusk.com/
- recursive 2y agoCall it X. Everyone knows what you mean and it really stirs shit up with people who are emotionally attached to the old brand name.
- tom_ 2y agoUse both and get everybody!
- subsection1h 2y ago> Call it X. Everyone knows what you mean When I see "X", I think X Window System. I saw your comment and thought, "I bet this guy is a Windows user." I was right! LOL. https://hn.algolia.com/?type=comment&sort=byDate&query=author:recursive+Windows https://hn.algolia.com/?type=comment&sort=byDate&query=autho...
- recursive 2y agoCongrats on your keen insights.
- hughesjj 2y agoI like "Xitter" because it's pronounced the way it is
- teddyh 2y agoI heard that deadnaming is uncool.
- ianburrell 2y agoI think the product should be called Twitter and the company called X. Sort of like Facebook/Meta. Which is what Musk should have done from the beginning, but we can fix it for him.
- GJim 2y agoI believe Xitter (pronounced 'shitter') is the preferred satirical term, and one that many deem to be an accurate portrayal of the sites user experience since it was taken over by Mr Musk.
- cheema33 2y agoXitter is my favorite!
- marcus_holmes 2y agoI like Xitter too. Also "the dead bird site" which occurs quite a lot on Mastodon
- riddley 2y agoI like Birdchan
- paulryanrogers 2y agoMaximum clarity
- dionian 2y agoI don't understand your point
- sjsdaiuasgdia 2y agoSince Musk's acquisition of Twitter, it has increasingly become a right wing echo chamber and place to promote conspiracy theories. And Alex Jones' InfoWars and Elon Musk's Twitter are both likely to show you advertisements for supplements of dubious effectiveness and other generally scammy products. So yeah, Jones fits right in there.
- wordofx 2y agoIt really hasn’t.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 2y agoMy experience disagrees with yours, I suppose. To me, as a casual user of the platform, that has been the trend. I've been visiting less because of it.
- bbor 2y agohttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65246394 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65246394 there are both in-depth studies and anecdotal evidence that suggest hate speech has been growing under Mr Musk's tenure. https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/data-shows-x-suspending-far-fewer-users-hate-speech/728136/ https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/data-shows-x-suspendin... Data Shows X Is Suspending Far Fewer Users for Hate Speech And, finally: Alex Jones was unbanned. That alone is proof of rising support for hate speech. He's literally been proven to be a lying provocateur in court, it doesn't get much clearer than that
- wyager 2y agoSo on the one hand you had Twitter, where the impression you would have had in the first few days of November is that Trump was probably going to win the election. On the other hand you had most other platforms like Reddit, with relatively heavy-handed moderation, where the impression you would have had in the first few days of November is that Trump was probably going to lose the election. So when you want to make a prior judgement on an extremely consequential outcome, which a posteriori was not even close, and one information ecosystem gives you the right answer, and most of the other information ecosystems give you the wrong answer, which information ecosystems do you classify as "echo chambers"? It's possible that this was just a fluke, but it should certainly make you update your priors on which ecosystems provide a more representative sample of base reality.
- bbor 2y agoOf course, Tim Onion is primarily on Bluesky, other than to occasionally rile up Musk