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BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler (www.mediaite.com)
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[–] 213 points 1 year ago (31 children)

I think this every single time I see news about that website. Like what the fuck is possibly on there that justifies using that piece of shit platform? Insanity.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This sketch was about Facebook but it's also relevant to Twitter

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Non-fediverse social media is designed to be addictive because that's how the people running it make money.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    What do you mean non-fediverse? How does Federation affect addictiveness?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    That's easy. It's more dull here, and there's less lock-in.

    No, really. Social media without the dopamine-pump-style algorithm behind it is far less stimulating. Meanwhile, the Federation model itself allows us to abandon nodes that are co-opted by bad actors. So there's always somewhere else to go with all your favorite stuff when things go sour.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Algorithmically curated timelines are designed to be addictive. Fediverse doesn't have that, it's time based, like it used to be before.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh ok, sorry. I wasn't aware that the fediverse restricted algorithms

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It does not restrict them per se, it's just that the mechanics of what to show you are either simply based on posting time, or amount of "interactions" or "interactions/time" or similar simple algorithms. It would be possible to analyze posts for specific content and show you for example ragebait only, but i doubt that pull request would be accepted - you would probably have to make a fork of your fediverse platform and implement it there.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    You can mimic the feel of Twitter by taking reddit threads and cutting them at the most popular reply (Reddit already does this), and then reversing the order. Now the "best" content is front and center and the conversation / context is in the background. Users don't have to go through the tediousness of a discussion before experiencing the sheer joy of a witty response. The emotions come faster and more consistently.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    There's just a lot less activity on the alternatives. Especially if you're trying to follow niche interests.

    Obviously, I left, but I get how barren it can feel when the latest post about a hobby of yours is 3 days old, instead of 3 minutes.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Like what the fuck is possibly on there that justifies using that piece of shit platform?

    Tech news. Fast tech news. It's well centralized. Unfortunately nothing comes close (not reddit, nor HN, nor lemmy).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (10 children)

    Like what the fuck is possibly on there that justifies using that piece of shit platform?

    People. Lots of people. Including Doctor Cory Doctorow and Molly White.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Cory Doctorow is on mastodon, just like Molly White

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    We were talking about Xitter, not Mastodon...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    and we are talking about reasons why people are still there - those two aren't one, because you can read their posts somewhere else too. Except if you meant that people are still there because those two are still there.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    You're missing the point. Ask yourself why those people are still there.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Hey, mastodon isn't that bad! When bluesky runs out of funny money and has to enshittify it'll be the one left standing!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Once again, not talking about Mastodon

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    It seems that multiple people don't get what you are trying to say, and i would really like to know. if you have the time, could you elaborate?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I honestly don't know how to be more clear. It's called a social graph. The most important thing about a social network, above everything else (for normies), is having lots of users. Cory and Molly both know and understand that if they left Xitter, they would lose access to a substantial amount of their audience, so they both stay, despite being some of the platform's harshest critics and the biggest supporters of it's alternatives. That's the answer to the question "why would anyone use it?". The social graph.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    but the only way to break through this is to change the platform. Since both of them already keep their posts equal on both sites, it makes switching easier for everyone; removing their content from Xitter would be an incentive for others to switch.

    The ideal way would be to try and band together a large amount of "regular posters" and completely switch on an agreed date together; that would have a pull effect for others to do the same.

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