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> I'm a big fan of X and hope they're able to fix these things. It's such. valuable tool. Genuine question: what value are people finding on X these days? I’m

> I'm a big fan of X and hope they're able to fix these things. It's such. valuable tool. Genuine question: what value are people finding on X these days? I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, but I gave up on the site due to the rampant toxicity awhile ago. Are people just highly curating their feeds? It started to feel like going to a trash dump with the intention of finding things that aren’t trash. Perhaps possible, but extremely smelly and occasionally the cause of a bed bug infestation.

throw0101c 2y ago
> Genuine question: what value are people finding on X these days? I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, but I gave up on the site due to the rampant toxicity awhile ago. Are people just highly curating their feeds? There are still a few Nitter instances running, so I use a web browser to check up on a few individuals (journalists, economists) sporadically. (I don't have any apps from The Socials installed on my phone (and never have): always web-based lurking.)
- pc86 2y ago
  Is "I don't have social media apps on my phone" the new "I don't even own a tv"?
  - creaturemachine 2y ago
    Yes, and using the web as a workaround is like continuing to watch TV down at the pub.
  - throw0101c 2y ago
    > Is "I don't have social media apps on my phone" the new "I don't even own a tv"? I know myself well enough to know that it'd be a bad idea for me. I have enough issues with screen time as it is, I don't need it in my pocket as well.
tpm 2y ago
> what value are people finding on X these days? I find value in: 1. Good ML accounts that allow me to stay up to date. Didn't find such concentration of them anywhere else, even after some have left. This is what mostly keeps me there. 2. Current info about the russian aggression from a few trusted accounts, mostly in ukrainian. Again, as I don't want to use Telegram, it's hard to find those in other places, though some good ones are also on Mastodon and Bsky.
- MattSayar 2y ago
  Yeah, Ethan Mollick commented that BlueSky has an anti-AI bias which is difficult to overcome https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3lku5ei5lpc2g https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3lku5ei5l...
  - tpm 2y ago
    it does have some anti-AI bias, but also there is a lot of inertia in the AI/ML community staying on X and not migrating elsewhere I think.
    - MattSayar 2y ago
      It's the same chicken-or-egg problem that all new social media has. "I want to move to the cool new thing but none of my friends are there"
      - tpm 2y ago
        Some communities migrated away though. Just not this one.

throw0101c 2y ago

> Genuine question: what value are people finding on X these days? I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, but I gave up on the site due to the rampant toxicity awhile ago. Are people just highly curating their feeds? There are still a few Nitter instances running, so I use a web browser to check up on a few individuals (journalists, economists) sporadically. (I don't have any apps from The Socials installed on my phone (and never have): always web-based lurking.)

pc86 2y ago
Is "I don't have social media apps on my phone" the new "I don't even own a tv"?
- creaturemachine 2y ago
  Yes, and using the web as a workaround is like continuing to watch TV down at the pub.
- throw0101c 2y ago
  > Is "I don't have social media apps on my phone" the new "I don't even own a tv"? I know myself well enough to know that it'd be a bad idea for me. I have enough issues with screen time as it is, I don't need it in my pocket as well.

tpm 2y ago

> what value are people finding on X these days? I find value in: 1. Good ML accounts that allow me to stay up to date. Didn't find such concentration of them anywhere else, even after some have left. This is what mostly keeps me there. 2. Current info about the russian aggression from a few trusted accounts, mostly in ukrainian. Again, as I don't want to use Telegram, it's hard to find those in other places, though some good ones are also on Mastodon and Bsky.

MattSayar 2y ago
Yeah, Ethan Mollick commented that BlueSky has an anti-AI bias which is difficult to overcome https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3lku5ei5lpc2g https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3lku5ei5l...
- tpm 2y ago
  it does have some anti-AI bias, but also there is a lot of inertia in the AI/ML community staying on X and not migrating elsewhere I think.
  - MattSayar 2y ago
    It's the same chicken-or-egg problem that all new social media has. "I want to move to the cool new thing but none of my friends are there"
    - tpm 2y ago
      Some communities migrated away though. Just not this one.