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My X feed is FUBAR. My feed was tech-only. Real people publishing real stuff. Last year X started occasionally showing some random content like Reddit, I'd ma
by sureIy 2y ago
My X feed is FUBAR.
My feed was tech-only. Real people publishing real stuff.
Last year X started occasionally showing some random content like Reddit, I'd mark them as "not interesting" and move on.
Since last month there's no tech content by tech people, there's exclusively junk worse than on Reddit's homepage. No amount of "not interesting" will fix it. Oh, there's porn now too.
I stopped opening X altogether.
- dustingetz 2y agoi turned off the images, it’s under bandwidth saving settings but makes x much better and helps keep the alg away from memes also
- sunaookami 2y agoWhy not use the "Following" feed? You won't get any recommended content (besides ads without an adblocker) and only see stuff from people you follow. Side note: It's annoying how many tech people started posting their political hot takes since ~2016. I unfollowed everyone who tweeted about politics.
- cosmic_cheese 2y agoDiscover feeds, if they try to be actually relevant to the user, can be a great tool for finding new people to follow and help keep the following feed fresh. I primarily follow artists on Twit-alikes and it’s how I once upon a time used it on Twitter and now use it on Bluesky. A discover feed that’s not adversarial isn’t strictly necessary but it’s a significant selling point.
- sunaookami 2y ago>I primarily follow artists on Twit-alikes and it’s how I once upon a time used it on Twitter and now use it on Bluesky. I still do this on Twitter and the "For You" feed works great.
- Yeul 2y agoMy brother is an artist and he's looking into an alternative to Insta. With the US going full into homophobia, Christianity and xenophobia it's time to divest from American social media.
- calmworm 2y ago“It's annoying how many people started posting their political hot takes…” ftfy
- matthewdgreen 2y agoBecause a lot of the smartest and most interesting people just stopped posting. And frankly I don't blame them. A good chunk of the reason is that the replies are recently much more angry and toxic, which makes the entire platform stressful to use.
- NikolaNovak 2y agoIt's tricky. I don't post about politics on my social media feeds, but... I spend increasing amount of time feeling that I should start. Context: 1. I come from a country that was torn into horrible civil war by populist leaders spouting exactly the same tactics and phrases as some of the North American elected leaders do now. 2. I don't believe in manifest destiny, I'm not religious, and so I don't believe that the average well being in USA and Canada is God given, inevitable, or guaranteed. 3. All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do or say nothing. So... Is covering my head under the sand like the mythical ostrich and going LaLaLa over next 4 years the polite thing to do, lest somebody unsubscribe? Or do I have all but duty to try to encourage tolerance, bridge communication between my polarized friends and neighbours, speak of my past and hope for the future?
- sunaookami 2y agoPosting about politics on social media changes exactly zero. In the end you will only have people with the same opinion as yours around you which distorts your world view. If you really want to get involved, you should start with your local community and make things better in your hometown. You can't change country-wide politics.
- _w1tm 2y ago> If you really want to get involved, you should start with your local community and make things better in your hometown. You can't change country-wide politics. Isn’t that basically Russia
- bdangubic 2y agoCare to explain what you mean here? Getting involved in local community is where you can make a difference in your and your loved ones lives. Voting in local elections is INFINITELY more important than general elections and it is not even close… Not sure what Russia has to do with that?
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- sureIy 2y agoI tried but I don't follow enough people I suppose (~100) and many probably left. This resulted in my "Following" feed being completely taken over by really prolific CSS guy.
- vanrohan 2y agoAlso make sure to remove bots from your followers. Having them in your social graph impacts your feed for sure. I made the "x bot remover" Chrome extension that automates removal based on simple rules. It's free. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-bot-remover/aohkhfmnpbofebaljcienghochiiohno https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-bot-remover/aohkh...
- vborovikov 2y agoThanks for the extension. By the way it only started working after I switched the X display language to English.
- vanrohan 2y agoThanks for letting me now, I need to fix this, or atleast mention it in the extension description.
- Havoc 2y agoThat plus even the classic SV tech crowd is now so entangled in US partisan politics that you're more likely to hear about whatever outrage is happening in culture wars than a new technology. Complete write-off and I don't just mean X
- nobrains 2y agoI have noticed searching for topics that interest me, ends up showing more content related to that search term in my feed. At least for some time. Just putting it out there incase someone wants to manually tweak their timeline using the search workaround.
- smt88 2y agoThe classic SV tech crowd wasn't worth following anyway. It was an endless stream of self-promotion and people pretending to have great wisdom because they exited one company once (or, worse, got a job as a VC).
- greatgib 2y agoWhat is infuriating is the fucked algorithm that is now showing in priority the tweets of Elon, even if you don't subscribe, follow or care about him. That is the real problem nowadays, he destroyed the system to make it a self promotion tool first. I'm quite sure that always on feed tweets of him can easily brain wash hundreds of millions of people.
- PartiallyTyped 2y agoI had him blocked and last I used xitter I still saw his stuff.
- QuarterReptile 2y agoAt the risk coming off as pedantic, it ceases to be a self-promotion tool if the system is destroyed.
- sroussey 2y agoBlock him is the only way. The algorithm gives him 1000x over everything
- hoseja 2y agoWeird, I'm not getting nearly enough Elon tweets as I would like. Each day there is news about another wacky thing he tweeted and I only learn about it afterwards.
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- miki123211 2y agoUse "latest", not "for you." "Latest" is still exclusively people you follow, in chronological order (and content explicitly marked as sponsored if you don't have premium.) X is the only corporate social media platform that offers this. You don't like the algorithm? Don't use it, and use X just like everybody else for the first 10 years of its life.
- tanaros 2y ago> X is the only corporate social media platform that offers this. You don't like the algorithm? Don't use it, and use X just like everybody else for the first 10 years of its life. Speaking as a non-X user, doesn’t YouTube offer essentially the same thing with the “subscriptions” tab?
- drdeca 2y agoTumblr also has this? (Not counting the ads and specifically-paid-to-be-promoted posts, but those are clearly marked, and I’m pretty sure twitter has as many in-line ads)
- gammarator 2y ago… Bluesky offers a clean, strictly chronological following feed as well as your choice of algorithmic feeds.
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- threeseed 2y ago> X is the only corporate social media platform that offers this Threads and BlueSky both offer this. And so there is no literally zero reason now why anyone should stay on X.
- Kye 2y agoMost of the tech people I recognize are on Bluesky now. If you follow enough of the same people, even the "Following" timeline won't help because they're just not there.
- matthewdgreen 2y agoYup. I had a beautiful infosec feed that was incredibly useful. Sometime over the summer my "for you" devolved into wild political opinions, and many of the smartest people left the platform which turned by "Following" feed into a ghost town. Every time I used the app I came away feeling angry, and I realized I was happier not using the app than using it. Fortunately about 1/2 of the smart people have shown up on Bluesky, and we can have technical conversations now. I'm hoping all the energy eventually comes back.
- sroussey 2y agoUg, I get tons of Alex Jones drivel all of a sudden. No thanks.
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- jcims 2y agoInfosec twitter had been self-immolating long before X. I basically solved the influx of weird stuff in one night by blocking everything that wasn’t related to my interests. The next day I was reading about rockets from my rocket peeps, radios from my radio peeps, and politics and posturing from my infosec peeps.
- wortelefant 2y agoI am using lists and have pinned them, it gives me a custom feed as before
- jalapenos 2y agoThe "not interesting" barely does anything. I've probably pressed it on the various angry bullshit US politics shit-slurry posts over a hundred times and they still sneak in. Who the hell is "Vivek" and why do I care at all? And since when did I ever express interest in "confirmation hearings"? And does Musk have his account hard coded to be every 3rd post? Jesus
- aboardRat4 2y agohttps://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Vivec https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Vivec
- kbos87 2y agoMy X experience has become scrolling through the 2/3 of posts I never asked for, including: 1) Elon's posts, though I never interact with him as a subject, 2) Ads from Trump-supporting PACs seeking donations, 3) Ads for hunting games with graphic depictions of animals being shot. Everything else is insultingly basic clickbait. These aren't topics I interact with, they are just representative of baseline content on X right now.
- pjmlp 2y agoSame experience over here, I was already on Mastadon, and finally joined the Bluesky crowd. It has finally become the kind of content Elon Musk fans love so much.
- BeFlatXIII 2y ago> My feed was tech-only. Real people publishing real stuff. My Twitter feed got similarly FUBAR from organic causes in 2017. Everyone started tweeting politics all day.
- sureIy 2y agoMy repair for that was to unfollow anyone posting BS I was uninterested in.
- BeFlatXIII 2y agoI tried that, then all I got were crickets.
- StefanBatory 2y agoI was using X for fanart of games I was playing. I ended up getting constant alt-right posts no matter how much I marked them as not interesting.
- cchance 2y agoSame here its all trash, i stopped logging into X a couple months ago, its all political and hate speech now its nuts, i used to have funny meme's and general tech news and gaming news, nope not 1 of those things anymore its all political shit and people complaining at each other about random shit, oh and insane amounts of crypto
- numpad0 2y agoI don't get why people would be so kind as to use the "not interested" button, on Twitter or anywhere. Just block them all. Content creators are same thing as 10x engineers, they can't be manufactured and supply is limited. There should be only so many of them that are capable of writing passable spams that can be force pushed without mentally destabilizing the team that does it. Not that anyone should go back to a dead website, just that not blocking is too nice.
- sureIy 2y agoGood point. Unfortunately blocking people often takes more taps and achieves less. The platform definitely won't show you the creator, but can still show others exactly like them.
- bdavbdav 2y agoYouTube seems to be doing this to me too
- mikae1 2y agoFollow selected channels via RSS in your feed reader.