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Being in academia (or very adjacent to it), there are two types of BlueSky users: 1) The ones that moved because of ideological reasons 2) The ones that moved
by zzleeper 2y ago
Being in academia (or very adjacent to it), there are two types of BlueSky users:
1) The ones that moved because of ideological reasons
2) The ones that moved b/c Twitter became a desolate hellscape.
I'm closer to (2) than to (1), and the difference between 2024 and 2020-2022 twitter is stark. Before, if you had an interesting tweet about a new article you would get lots of engagement (retweets, discussions, people disagreeing and pushing back).
Now? Nothing, just a few random retweets or comments from non-academic people that almost feel LLM-generated. Compound this with network effects, and even my right-wing pro-Trump colleagues (and there are some) decided to at the very least dual-post.
- pjc50 2y agoThe ideology and the desolate hellscape are strongly connected, in that one has caused the other.
- subsection1h 2y ago> non-academic people that almost feel LLM-generated I don't understand why this isn't talked about as much as the MAGA garbage. I occasionally read tweets by a couple prominent Rubyists who've been using Twitter since 2006 (because Twitter was written in Ruby, which attracted Rubyists) and none of the replies to their tweets are written by familiar Rubyists like back in the day. Most of the replies are from accounts created in the past few years with AI-generated profile images.