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Everyone's x feed is FD. I don't not follow Elon yet his crap posts are littering the app when I open it. It's turned into his personal bullhorn of miss informa

Everyone's x feed is FD. I don't not follow Elon yet his crap posts are littering the app when I open it. It's turned into his personal bullhorn of miss information and rage bating.

egeozcan 2y ago
It's crazy how blatant it is. If you block him and his promoted bunch, you still get occasional fascist/racist bait on the feed. Following feed is also mostly dead because many people I followed left.
electrondood 2y ago
He's either been radicalized by his own platform, or he's intentionally being provocative to drive engagement, to drive ad revenue. It's disgusting. The hypocrisy is absurd. Like telling everyone to go fuck themselves, and then hours later, pleading for users to post more positive content... or making a big show of being worried about using AI untruthfully, and then repeatedly posting AI-generating images smearing people he doesn't like. Pretending like no one had "free speech" until he bought the platform, and then selectively banning vocal dissent he doesn't like. He's a child. Such a waste.
- wsintra2022 2y ago
  He may also have just had an in house AI running his socials for the last few years. Surprising not much discussion around that as a possibility.
  - XorNot 2y ago
    Why suggest AI when simply paying a social media manager for his twitter account would be a normal thing to have done at his level of wealth? Which is something he has obviously done with his grind-centric videogame accounts and actual livestreams of him not knowing how to play on those accounts?
    - wsintra2022 2y ago
      Reason I suggest AI is more related to him as a Technology enthusiast who has had enough money to have private technology available to him to experiment with.
  - tombert 2y ago
    Even if that's true, he's still cosigning the account isn't he? He's putting his name on it, it's not weird for people to assume that these are his viewpoints and/or opinions, no matter how unhinged.
QuarterReptile 2y ago
FWIW, I can't recall seeing Elon except as retweets. The downsides are the bots, the exodus, and the stupid renaming, but it's been almost entirely improvement to me. I was pretty tired of Mastodon and thus happy to return when Elon bought it. ETA: I use a preferred subset of my follows for my main feed, a few subject-delineated lists for particular research, and occasionally my "following" feed to branch out.
- daghamm 2y ago
  You honestly belive Musk does not boost certain tweets? Do you remember this story?? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/report-musk-had-twitter-engineers-boost-his-tweets-after-biden-got-more-views/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/report-musk-had-...
- BugsJustFindMe 2y ago
  > FWIW, I can't recall seeing Elon except as retweets. I had to block his account to not see one of his posts at the top of my screen every time I logged in. I was a casual user and didn't follow anyone (only started logging in when it was impossible to see anything otherwise), so I had what could be called the "default" experience.
- anarazel 2y ago
  I got Elon tweets in my notifications, despite having him blocked. That was the last straw for me.

Everyone's x feed is FD. I don't not follow Elon yet his crap posts are littering the app when I open it. It's turned into his personal bullhorn of miss information and rage bating.

egeozcan 2y ago

It's crazy how blatant it is. If you block him and his promoted bunch, you still get occasional fascist/racist bait on the feed. Following feed is also mostly dead because many people I followed left.

electrondood 2y ago

He's either been radicalized by his own platform, or he's intentionally being provocative to drive engagement, to drive ad revenue. It's disgusting. The hypocrisy is absurd. Like telling everyone to go fuck themselves, and then hours later, pleading for users to post more positive content... or making a big show of being worried about using AI untruthfully, and then repeatedly posting AI-generating images smearing people he doesn't like. Pretending like no one had "free speech" until he bought the platform, and then selectively banning vocal dissent he doesn't like. He's a child. Such a waste.

wsintra2022 2y ago
He may also have just had an in house AI running his socials for the last few years. Surprising not much discussion around that as a possibility.
- XorNot 2y ago
  Why suggest AI when simply paying a social media manager for his twitter account would be a normal thing to have done at his level of wealth? Which is something he has obviously done with his grind-centric videogame accounts and actual livestreams of him not knowing how to play on those accounts?
  - wsintra2022 2y ago
    Reason I suggest AI is more related to him as a Technology enthusiast who has had enough money to have private technology available to him to experiment with.
- tombert 2y ago
  Even if that's true, he's still cosigning the account isn't he? He's putting his name on it, it's not weird for people to assume that these are his viewpoints and/or opinions, no matter how unhinged.

QuarterReptile 2y ago

FWIW, I can't recall seeing Elon except as retweets. The downsides are the bots, the exodus, and the stupid renaming, but it's been almost entirely improvement to me. I was pretty tired of Mastodon and thus happy to return when Elon bought it. ETA: I use a preferred subset of my follows for my main feed, a few subject-delineated lists for particular research, and occasionally my "following" feed to branch out.

daghamm 2y ago
You honestly belive Musk does not boost certain tweets? Do you remember this story?? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/report-musk-had-twitter-engineers-boost-his-tweets-after-biden-got-more-views/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/report-musk-had-...
BugsJustFindMe 2y ago
> FWIW, I can't recall seeing Elon except as retweets. I had to block his account to not see one of his posts at the top of my screen every time I logged in. I was a casual user and didn't follow anyone (only started logging in when it was impossible to see anything otherwise), so I had what could be called the "default" experience.
anarazel 2y ago
I got Elon tweets in my notifications, despite having him blocked. That was the last straw for me.