Love the way Notifications are increasingly fucked. Great to find out someone replied to you only days later when you're suddenly told someone liked a reply to the reply to your original tweet.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
I am on the bird app! my name here plus a b
― death generator (lukas), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
I wish there was a better sorting mechanism for replies. As far as I can tell, replies are sorted to prioritize points of view that correspond most closely to my own, which is flattering to my ego but also gives me a false sense of how certain posts are actually perceived.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
r/pickles - > r/picklemen ?
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
this does not bode well for twitter
Musk plans to cut Twitterโs staff by nearly 75% โ via โฆ@washingtonpostโฉ https://t.co/IYIqKYyoBa— Patrick Marley (@patrickdmarley) October 20, 2022
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
my name here plus a b
blukas?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
holy shit xp. i had assumed i left to avoid being part of the low morale/badly paid majority who don't get fired and now you have to work on an alt right cesspool. seems like i actually left to avoid getting fired along with almost everyone else.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
how he going to create x if he fires everyone
― lagโn, Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
guess the plan is actually just to cut costs declare twitters business good and sell it
― lagโn, Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
good comment on the twitter blind in response to this article:
"it's like buying an overpriced house and burning down 75% of it to save on electricity and heating, and end up living in the bathroom"
general consensus seems to be that he as an unduly high opinion of twitter's internal documentation and automation if he thinks he can fire 75% of the headcount.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
As long as you can leverage your burned-down house for some ridiculous multiple of what you paid for it, it's all good.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 October 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
He's going to roll out self-driving Twitter.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 October 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
Or this could just be more bullshit he pulled out of his ass like everything else he says.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 20 October 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
so close
― death generator (lukas), Thursday, 20 October 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
lubkas
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 20 October 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
maybe he just thinks the site was more fun when you'd see the fail whale several times a week
― mh, Friday, 21 October 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
i do have some nostalgia for the fail whale
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 21 October 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
hey lets all use Twitter Blue!!
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 21 October 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
twitter should randomly go down a few hours a day. itโs help the chronically online have a cooling off period instead of tweeting through it
― mh, Friday, 21 October 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
fwiw twitter has had <1 hour of downtime in the last 7 years or something iirc. it's way better than facebook's uptime for example, despite twitter's reputation for being a shitshow[*]. so there's probably some slack before things get really bad.
but things won't get bad slowly. i.e. it's not going to be a fail whale thing where it deteriorates for some users some of the time. it's going to break eventually.
[*] deserved on the product side, not at all deserved on the eng side.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 21 October 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
This is my favorite tweet I saw this week, perfect encapsulation of Twitter 2022. Five years ago it would be utterly inscrutable to me, feels like a line from a Mark Leyner novel or a Mad Lib.
A woman went to a shop to confront her door dash guy so a cat asked why she didn't just do her own shopping and got called ableist
― gjoon1, Saturday, 22 October 2022 02:00 (one year ago) link
downtime is not bad. continuous uptime on a media known for โstormsโ of content is bad.
― mh, Saturday, 22 October 2022 02:01 (one year ago) link
Lady Gaga becomes the latest celebrity to fall into a meme trend of someone posting a picture of a celebrity or 3D-rendered character for humorous effect
ok
― โuhhโโlike, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie โuhhโ (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
your move tiktok
― lagโn, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 14:47 (one year ago) link
I'd hate to be Lady Gaga right now
― jmm, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
I used to think those trending topics were just really poorly written but it's pretty obvious they're just made as obtuse as possible for clicks
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
my sister was freelancing for twitter writing ad copy that went in the trending list, so m/l the same thing as those, and she said she go to three meetings to come up with some shit like that lol
― lagโn, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
I wonder what the new 3-d object social media will be called
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
Is there a setting that I'm missing to stop seeing tweets from people that I don't follow, but have been liked by people I follow? I feel like this is half my feed all of a sudden and it sucks.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
switch from home to latests tweets, should be a button at the top somewhere depending on where youre using it
― lagโn, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
yeah the default is algorithmic timeline but to twitter's credit it is afaik the only social network to retain the option to go back to reverse chronological, and they've been clear they don't plan to remove that option.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
till friday
― mark s, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
musk has been openly hostile to the algorithmic feed fwiw. he tells people to turn it off all the time.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
Very important to fix your Twitter feed:1. Tap home button.2. Tap stars on upper right of screen.3. Select โLatest tweetsโ.You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you donโt realize.Easy to switch back & forth to see the difference.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
he's good again
― mark s, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
"switch from home to latests tweets, should be a button at the top somewhere depending on where youre using it"
I actually change this quite often to see the differences - I wish Facebook had this
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
โ ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, October 26, 2022 10:57 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
instagram has that option but people on the 'gram don't post nearly as much as people on the bird app, so if you go to recent posts, it's all media publications and celebs instead of people in your life.
so instagram's algorithmic feed makes sense to me, but it's still way too easy to miss posts
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
algorithms can be our friends
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
slave to the rithm would be a v dadpun but true album drop
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
Iirc, Facebook does have this, but (annoyingly) it defaults algorithm and makes you change it back to chronological each time you visit.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
I do think it's cool that you can refresh your FB feed and get a new set of posts, in case you're bored or whatever. But yeah I've realized that of the 400 or so friends I've got on there I'm really only getting updates from like 50 of them. If you just don't interact with someone you will slowly stop seeing updates about them. But then if you get reminded of them somehow and click their profile you can see what they're up to. Amusingly this means that ILX people make up a decent chunk of my feed because y'all are the people whose stuff I'll like and comment most often
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
I use FB mostly from my desktop machine and my bookmark is specifically to the chron feed. (Also with FBP to block sponsored posts.) When I use FB on my phone it's always amazing/horrifying to see all the landfill and see the preferred stuff out of order.
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
Ahh yes, the weird star icon, not anything in settings, thank you!
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
they really don't want you to use latest tweets, but they also know they'll bleed even more money if they take it away
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
The fb feed really drives me crazy, I hate the refreshing because it makes it very difficult to find posts again that you've already seen. Unfortunately, with about 75% of my feed being promotional posts, I don't think there's really much room for improvement.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
Yeah, whenever I try to find something I saw to show my wife she always says "why don't you save it?" or like it or whatever the fuck you're supposed to do, but damned if I'm going to interact with that site and give it any active data. It knows what I follow (same with Twitter) and that's about all it's going to get out of me.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
FB knows what posts you pause on, and how long you pause there, they know what you click on afterwards - they know a lot of things
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
Yeah, that's fine. I consider that passive data. But I'm not going to actively provide them with data by pressing buttons and hitting likes and BS like that.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
but what if that results in a worse feed rather than a better one?
I'm interested in the idea of how to optimize this, I've recently been annoyed with YouTube recommending stuff because I paused on something as I was scrolling through. I ended up with a lot of bullshit recommendations when there's only very specific stuff I want to be bothered with.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
It definitely results in a worse feed, no question, but I just turn that to my advantage as an excuse to look at these sites less. I try to ignore the noise and search out the one thing I want to see at any given time, whether it's Facebook, Spotify, Twitter, Youtube ...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link