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I think it's great. My feed is people posting tech/AI news, scientific publications, videos of rockets and self-driving cars, things made with coding agents etc

I think it's great. My feed is people posting tech/AI news, scientific publications, videos of rockets and self-driving cars, things made with coding agents etc. It's full of people who do meaningful work as well and you can see who they are. Dark mode, ability to easily copy images, link to posts, see posts of interesting people by going to their profile. On top of that the feed algorithm is open source and actually sane. What else would I want? It's by far the best designed social media site out there. I know it's a low bar but still.

UqWBcuFx6NV4r 28d ago
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- lloydatkinson 28d ago
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  - teiferer 28d ago
    I can concur though. I have a rarely used account and I get Elon on top of the feed all the time. Even as mobile notifications. I don't click on them and scroll past, but they keep coming.
    - deleted 28d ago
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    - bsoqk 28d ago
      Have you tried blocking him? It’s always seemed an effective strategy to me when I want to stop seeing someone online.
- jasonvorhe 28d ago
  I'm a nostr user first and X is lurk only but I seldomly see anything by or about Musk and so does everyone else I speak to who actually uses it. I suspect this has become more of a meme by Mastodon/Bluesky users than anything real.
  - Hammershaft 28d ago
    I understand you can still tailor a good experience, but if you create a fresh X account the density of Elon Musk posts is genuinely absurd. There's no way he isn't putting his thumb on the algorithm to boost his reach. Also the density of pure hate & ragebait by mask-off fascist accounts! It shocks me how much of that I saw unprompted right away after making a new account recently.
    - grosswait 28d ago
      No different than an uncurated Reddit profile. You’ll get bombarded with garbage until effort is placed into the curation.
      - epiccoleman 28d ago
        I made a new reddit account for a side project a few months ago and I couldn't believe how terrible reddit is when you don't have 10 years of subreddit curation. The default experience is to be dumped into what basically amounts to "Facebook boomer slop" mixed with a ton of hustle / small business / get rich quick content. It's an unpleasant experience. My main Reddit account doesn't "solve reddit" by any means - I often find myself thinking "man this site sucks, I should stop coming here," but the difference between that curated account and a fresh one is night and day.
    - TitaRusell 28d ago
      The Dutch PM for some reason uses X (or his PR agents do). There is always a lot of impotent homophobic rage coming from the retweets. It is all very sad. But that's the US first amendment for you.
      - coldpie 28d ago
        The US first amendment has nothing to do with what a private company chooses to host on their platform. That content is there because the users and owners of the platform want it to be there.
embedding-shape 28d ago
> On top of that the feed algorithm is open source Do you genuinely believe what is public is exactly what's deployed? If so, what makes that belief justified?
- bluecalm 28d ago
  Why would I doubt it? if you think they are deploying something else then it's quite a claim but it's you who need to show some evidence. It works great anyway. I get a lot of junk I don't want to see on FB/Insta. Reddit is not even worth discussing. X is the only place with where you get a lot of people who work on interesting/important/big stuff and post frequently.

UqWBcuFx6NV4r 28d ago

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lloydatkinson 28d ago
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- teiferer 28d ago
  I can concur though. I have a rarely used account and I get Elon on top of the feed all the time. Even as mobile notifications. I don't click on them and scroll past, but they keep coming.
  - deleted 28d ago
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  - bsoqk 28d ago
    Have you tried blocking him? It’s always seemed an effective strategy to me when I want to stop seeing someone online.
jasonvorhe 28d ago
I'm a nostr user first and X is lurk only but I seldomly see anything by or about Musk and so does everyone else I speak to who actually uses it. I suspect this has become more of a meme by Mastodon/Bluesky users than anything real.
- Hammershaft 28d ago
  I understand you can still tailor a good experience, but if you create a fresh X account the density of Elon Musk posts is genuinely absurd. There's no way he isn't putting his thumb on the algorithm to boost his reach. Also the density of pure hate & ragebait by mask-off fascist accounts! It shocks me how much of that I saw unprompted right away after making a new account recently.
  - grosswait 28d ago
    No different than an uncurated Reddit profile. You’ll get bombarded with garbage until effort is placed into the curation.
    - epiccoleman 28d ago
      I made a new reddit account for a side project a few months ago and I couldn't believe how terrible reddit is when you don't have 10 years of subreddit curation. The default experience is to be dumped into what basically amounts to "Facebook boomer slop" mixed with a ton of hustle / small business / get rich quick content. It's an unpleasant experience. My main Reddit account doesn't "solve reddit" by any means - I often find myself thinking "man this site sucks, I should stop coming here," but the difference between that curated account and a fresh one is night and day.
  - TitaRusell 28d ago
    The Dutch PM for some reason uses X (or his PR agents do). There is always a lot of impotent homophobic rage coming from the retweets. It is all very sad. But that's the US first amendment for you.
    - coldpie 28d ago
      The US first amendment has nothing to do with what a private company chooses to host on their platform. That content is there because the users and owners of the platform want it to be there.

embedding-shape 28d ago

> On top of that the feed algorithm is open source Do you genuinely believe what is public is exactly what's deployed? If so, what makes that belief justified?

bluecalm 28d ago
Why would I doubt it? if you think they are deploying something else then it's quite a claim but it's you who need to show some evidence. It works great anyway. I get a lot of junk I don't want to see on FB/Insta. Reddit is not even worth discussing. X is the only place with where you get a lot of people who work on interesting/important/big stuff and post frequently.