Resistance Twitter 2.0

Where will the resistance end up posting, mostly?

  • Bluesky

    Votes: 16 72.7%

  • Threads

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • Mastodon

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other (please specify in comments)

    Votes: 2 9.1%

  • On Planet X, we resist telepathically

    Votes: 3 13.6%
  • Total voters
    22
  • Poll closed .
theprestige said:
Terrible analogy. Everyone curates their own feed. If you're seeing unpleasant ideas, it's because you want to.
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No, this is flatly incorrect.

Even if you only view those you are following, its algorithm inserts tweets in the feed to drive engagement. I have never liked, followed or otherwise engaged with political content on twitter and yet the algorithm only inserts extreme political sentiment (both left and right) into my feed.
 
LiteBright said:
No, this is flatly incorrect.

Even if you only view those you are following, its algorithm inserts tweets in the feed to drive engagement. I have never liked, followed or otherwise engaged with political content on twitter and yet the algorithm only inserts extreme political sentiment (both left and right) into my feed.
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Honestly, how are you using Twitter? Ignore "For You" and just look at your "Following" feed. The only things that get inserted in that are adverts for holidays in China and inspirational lifestyle gurus.
 
Rolfe said:
Honestly, how are you using Twitter? Ignore "For You" and just look at your "Following" feed. The only things that get inserted in that are adverts for holidays in China and inspirational lifestyle gurus.
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The fact that you have carefully curated your feed does not mean that Twitter is not an abuse-ridden cesspit. My Twitter too was carefully curated and I too managed to avoid most of it. BlueSky is better. It does everything Twitter does except enable abusers and neo-nazis.
 
arthwollipot said:
The fact that you have carefully curated your feed does not mean that Twitter is not an abuse-ridden cesspit. My Twitter too was carefully curated and I too managed to avoid most of it. BlueSky is better. It does everything Twitter does except enable abusers and neo-nazis.
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Bluesky has more content to choose from?
 
LiteBright said:
No, this is flatly incorrect.

Even if you only view those you are following, its algorithm inserts tweets in the feed to drive engagement. I have never liked, followed or otherwise engaged with political content on twitter and yet the algorithm only inserts extreme political sentiment (both left and right) into my feed.
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It would be interesting to know if Bluesky like the other social media do simply tune their software to create "engagement". Unfortunately all the social media companies (and most media sites) have valued engagement over other metrics. If people want to know why there is so much disquiet, such apparent polarisation, hatred etc. "these days" it is because the social media platforms have rated engagement as a key measure of success, and engagement is what they have sold. Sadly the easiest way to drive "engagement" with humans is with the more negatives aspects of our behaviour such as mob behaviour, us & them and so on.
 
You want all that political content, really, you do. If you simply engage with hobby style content like cat videos, then you're not part of the resistance now, are you? Oh no, not only do you want to keep tabs on the enemy you want to keep abreast of the latest resistance content, like right now everybody is stocking up to the official food of the resistance, Froot Loops.

That's right people, RFK Jr. is coming for your food additives and Froot Loops are going to end up being dull and pale in the upcoming dystopian hellscape. So stock up. By the case, by the pallet, just like it's toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic because the "authentic" Froot Loops are going to end up being the underground currency of the resistance and who doesn't want to be an underground billionaire?
 
Rolfe said:
Honestly, how are you using Twitter? Ignore "For You" and just look at your "Following" feed. The only things that get inserted in that are adverts for holidays in China and inspirational lifestyle gurus.
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I do only look at the "following" feed and yet every 10th tweet or so is from someone I don't follow and is being inserted by the algorithm. If you're not seeing that, I honestly don't know why we have such different experiences. Perhaps due to my light use of the platform, the algorithm identifies me as someone ripe for further engagement and inserts toxic politics to try and bait me in to greater use. I really don't know.

Not to mention, it would be nice to check the replies to a tweet I've made without having to see people flogging racist memes or a man selling his "full length masturbation videos" or any number of other objectionable things.

Even if one isn't bothered with all that, at the end of the day using X is not that different than being a trump voter. You might not yourself be a racist spreader of disinformation, but if you use X you are perfectly fine supporting one. I, for one, am not.
 
I was going to ask if the insults were deliberate or accidental.
There is a casual smugness in the TDS camp that shows how important X remains, and to be frank, it will remain the platform to help the Democrats return to relevance.
I have my theories on how this will happen.
 
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