Twitter C/D

I am one of the few people who actually doesn't mind this feature but for the rest of the world

Uh. Muting suggest_recycled_tweet_inline and suggest_activity_tweet actually has fixed my timeline. It's all chronological and there are barely any "x and y liked" tweets. pic.twitter.com/Dva6LPQyLF

— Emma ⭐ (@EmmaKinema) September 16, 2018

i did it

What a dumb site:

A bunch of crybabies mass reported my great tweet and twitter had to invent a new rule to make me delete it even though it doesn’t violate the rule lol pic.twitter.com/2jgUG0bleg

— Abortion Doc for the Deep State (@drnifkin) September 17, 2018

very thoughtful of them that this rule leaves room for tweets celebrating white genocide

We are tearing ourselves apart.

Twitter is not a "dumb site". Facebook isn't a "dumb site". I've a friend who was diagnosed with PTSD because of all the shit he had to moderate for facebook: decapitations, child-pornography... It's not the sites that are dumb; it's that we've created monsters. We want to say and draw and place photos of everything from nice to vile to criminal and... expect, somehow, these platforms can moderate that. Can moderate "us". People put so much out there, online, who could possibly moderate all that?

There are 19 year olds in Manilla working for Facebook having to press either a 'keep' or 'delete' button, preferably within three to five seconds, deciding on what we can or cannot see on facebook. Can't blame them for making mistakes. We are doing this. Same with twitter. Force-feed our first world shit through a digital medium and eventually someone in the third world will deem it inappropriate. It's how rotten we are.

It's dumb that they exist

Also can someone find me that tweet that was like

You: Actually, Bojack is a gut-wrenching show about depression

Me: Cool

We - 'the west' - outsource our moderation to third world, non-English speaking people, is what I'm trying to say. No way can we expect the biggest online free speech platforms to actually be there for free speech or moderation when needed. We created something but have given it away to underpaid and undereducated people, exploiting them. This is the reality. xxp

What a dumb shite: https://nypost.com/2018/09/14/twitter-ceo-admits-conservative-employees-dont-feel-safe-expressing-opinions/

LBI your argument doesn’t actually hold up, because there is no industry consensus or standard practice on outsourcing moderation work, whether to neural networks, sweatshops in developing countries, or contracted native language speakers. You are right that humans are terrible, because duh, but “the system” is not even close to being as competent as you suggest.

weird how they never seems to say what these opinion conservatives are afraid to express are

Weird how Rosen gives a completely useless interview and recode has no commentary of their own. Tech journalism is so utterly fucking useless

all very disappointing to hear. Rosen has seemed so incisive in his criticism of the media recently

lrb isn't arguing that the system is competent, quite the opposite actually. here's a piece from 2014 on it:

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/

this 'woke brand' thing is pretty tiresome but this got a good laugh out of me

why are so many young people flocking to brands on social media for love, guidance, and attention? I'll tell you why. they're isolated from real communities, working service jobs they hate while barely making ends meat, and are living w/ unchecked personal/mental health problems

— Steak-umm (@steak_umm) September 26, 2018

has anyone else noticed far fewer "ICYMIs" and suggested tweets since the latest update? i didn't use any macros, but they've basically disappeared from my feed. which is nice.

meat us halfway steak-umms

they shd rename twitter "the sexual assault feed" not an easy read tbqh!

Ive been in dozens of bar fights (ask the guys I grew up with) nearly lost an eye in one and that's just one of the injuries (I have the scarred stitch marks to prove the rest) never been black out drunk but I have had to defend myself, which I am still perfectly capable of doing https://t.co/VQSotGWW5g

— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) October 2, 2018

i think i'm just gradually unfollowing everyone now.

yes really

bar fights? gtfoh

RIP

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/10/28/twitter-remove-like-tool-bid-improve-quality-debate/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

They are so desperate for a sale it’s almost tragic

RIP Twitter, you mean

xp

I haven't been using Twitter lately because it just depresses me, so they keep spamming me with emails saying "You've got 22 new notifications", then you login and you in fact have zero notifications. What is the point of that? I just unsubscribed from the email. Who thought it was a good strategy to just send people lying emails?

BREAKING: Twitter to remove hated "tweeting" functionality from Twitter

— Leo Mikłasz (@leomiklasz) October 29, 2018

if you want to RT you should have to copy the tweet then paste it into your own tweet

?__twitter_impression=true

im confused as to how removing likes will improve the quality of —debate—

does this mean i have to add all the tweets i like to my bookmarks instead or else lose track of them

I think overall for most users it's a useless tool altho I do really like it as a bookmark

faving is at the very heart of social media life

They should put it back to beign a star and stop making it appear in people's TLs

otm

Lots of things they *should"* do to make it more functional, they don't want to do any these things for whatever reason, it's getting almost as bad as facebook

faving is at the very heart of social media life

― lag∞n, Monday, October 29, 2018 8:58 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they don't want to make things more functional they want to get their house in order for a sale that is never gonna come because what mature enterprise would want to hang that albatross around their neck?

imo in this era if there's no way to silently register some kind of engagement with the content on it the social media website will die probably

which

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc

xp

that "we've removed the hated tweet function" thing is too real. I don't get this at all. the fav (rip) / like button is elemental to twitter.

all we can do here is FP and it works okay

why is the favorite an essential feature?

it lets you communicate "yeah" to the tweeter without burdening them with reading your words

it allows u to tell ppl their tweet is your fave

it also imo motivates people to tweet more

the vast majority of twitter users have small follow counts and don't get replies. without the reassurance that somebody is reading (and enjoying) your ramblings, you're more likely to stop talking or go somewhere else

xp

in other words, brad otm

yep

ya get a little dopamine rush from a tweet that "does well"

i think we can all agree that the feature they shd eliminate is tweets themselves

I’d be cool with getting rid of both likes and retweets lol