Twitter C/D

the hardcore pledge thing was so fn funny "i will have them click a button and then the company will be hardcore"

Like "Doom" difficulty settings.

tbf they have indeed hurt me plenty

Like Twitter, I guess, Insta is all about curating the feed. I mostly get rad stuff from friends, artists, publishers I like, and trans teenagers posting outrageous shitposting memes.

― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, January 20, 2023 1:11 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I wish I could see shit from accounts I actually follow, the whole thing is so shitted up with ads, suggested posts and reels

The chrome extension one of you mentioned way back still works well for me, totally locked down, only what I want to see, etc. I don't use the app or check twitter on my phone.

xp if you tap on the Instagram logo you can switch to “following”

Ha well shit that does work

IIRC, someone here (Mike, maybe) predicted that Twitter would quickly shutter their generous media uploads. It appears that’s happened. Try copying an image from a browser tab (“Copy Image”) then pasting it into a tweet. It now pastes the URL rather than the image.

still works on web, i copied a picture of henry kissinger

HK is the only exception.

For You can fuck off

It's been switching over to For You quite a bit too, very stupid

I don't engage at all on twitter, just read the posts, and the app doesn't default to a choice for me, it stays with what I pick

I've recently been liking "For You" more than "Following", but I look at both

The chrome extension one of you mentioned way back still works well for me, totally locked down, only what I want to see, etc. I don't use the app or check twitter on my phone.

checked account this morning. "Following" has no posts in four days. "Home" has multiple posts from yesterday from people that i follow... can't both be true. (Facebook is the same). just give me reverse chronological!

i din't know there was a facebook extension-- as someone who feels forced there for family purposes, will check thx

I come and go with actual twitter but even during periods where I wasn’t reading it, I follow a handful of people via my rss reader feedbin. Easy way to jay get a couple of accounts you want to read and not go there.

it's just one climate dude's experience, but i've been following him for several years (he posts a lot of climate change visualizations with regular updates) and he's not one to complain much about climate deniers

This is a pretty unassuming climate tweet, but look at the replies… This website has become such a mess. https://t.co/YCfxjuSYqm

— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) January 22, 2023

Not sure I've ever seen any video/forum post/article/etc. on climate change (outside of Gawker comments and ILX, though maybe we had a denier or two at some point) that didn't have a wide variety of assholes in the comments and replies.

it's one of the constants in life for sure

i think the point of his tweet is that it has gotten notably worse on twitter, at least for him

My guess is that the continual push to "For You" is an attempt to hide the total lack of activity compared to your usual feed; predicting "tumbleweeds" will trend soon.

Now it is automatically starting in For You every time I open the app. WTF!?!

yep, that change landed about a week back. not clear if it's deliberate or them shipping a bug. musk claims it's going to be reverted, but he also claims he's going to solve traffic with used sewer drills.

here are the first two posts suggested for me on my algorithmic timeline. great stuff.

https://i.imgur.com/ezMC3mB.png

lol wow

Well, i guess we know Nitasha Tiku and Will Oremus are dickheads, if nothing else.

they are both extremely musk skeptical tech journalists fwiw

Again, that whole mars catalog guy is really, hopelessly, in love with Elon. I wish him much happiness bearing musk’s strange children

feel like nitasha tiku is a dickhead nevertheless but i can't remember quite why and perhaps i'm confused

see also leah finnegan

feel like nitasha tiku is a dickhead nevertheless but i can't remember quite why and perhaps i'm confused

This is kind of how it feels for everyone on Twitter.

tiku is a totally normal good reporter

are some of you guys really confusing “reporter follows stupid account to see what stupid shit they tweet” with “reporter believes stupid account is good”

Yes I am. You follow these fuckers, you give them oxygen. You can see what they tweet without following them.

If you're a tech or crypto/finance reporter, following the scum is part of your job, no?

lol

I said "confusing" not "conflating"

does this extend to reporters showing up to cover political events? they're bumping up the number of audience members!

social media is different than that obviously but this whole digression is incredibly tedious imo

on that I concur

twitter official client isn't as bad as I remember but I'm mourning Tweetbot with Jeff

I tried something called Birdie and it was terrible.

heh heh heh

https://t.co/oKYViTvUrq pic.twitter.com/4Znr4PtmYF

— mansur (@mansurshaheen) January 24, 2023

Tweetdeck still works but I guess that's because Twitter owns it?

Yup. (That was always the client I used, FWIW.)

https://www.ft.com/content/3cb1c98d-2f83-4838-9370-3f6817de6278

article about esther crawford - not really much here i think, other than that she comes from a family of christian cultists, which totally makes sense

I grew up in a cult. We had lots of rules (can’t cut hair, no makeup, no pants, no tv, no secular music, etc) and hierarchical leadership. We believed it was the “end times” so I lived in fear of doing anything wrong & being left behind. I exited on my own when I was 19. https://t.co/t6u7VlJE0T pic.twitter.com/0EzfqBICbA

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) April 16, 2022

Replacing one cult with another.

one cult
or another
they're gonna find you

Meet the new cult, same as the old cult

Cult
Gonna give it up
Or they'll take your life away

Her ideas have not always been welcomed. Crawford was among the proponents for Twitter’s controversial and now-halted plan to introduce a feature that would allow users to offer videos of adult content behind a paywall similar to that posted on subscriptions site OnlyFans, according to two people familiar with the matter.

lol chickened out on Elon's only idea that would actually make money

only took 15 years to use a font that wont let you play the replace lowercase l with uppercase i trick

https://i.imgur.com/vyh6D1Z.png