tw.tter

[dyqik]

It's not unusual for scheduling services to apply a minute level dither to triggering an action, either.

[Beaker]

Suddenly my Xitter feed today is full of fascist content. I don’t follow any fascists, I don’t Xit anything on the platform, I don’t interact with it, but today I am swamped with this stuff faster than I can block it. Has the algorithm dial been turned all the way to the right overnight?

[Woodchopper]

Suddenly my Xitter feed today is full of fascist content. I don’t follow any fascists, I don’t Xit anything on the platform, I don’t interact with it, but today I am swamped with this stuff faster than I can block it. Has the algorithm dial been turned all the way to the right overnight?

The ‘for you’ (algorithmic) option is f.cked. They presumably just assume that everyone is a c.nt. My ‘following’ option still seems to be limited to posts and retweets by people I’ve chosen to follow. May be different for others of course.

[dyqik]

Plus a whole bunch of people you might follow have left the platform in the last couple of weeks, so there's a higher ratio of Nazis to people putting up with Nazis.

[nekomatic]

Quite a lot of said people seem to have moved to Bluesky, fwiw (just when I was about to have another go at ditching short-form-hot-take-based social media, but there we are).

[dyqik]

Quite a lot of said people seem to have moved to Bluesky, fwiw (just when I was about to have another go at ditching short-form-hot-take-based social media, but there we are).

Bluesky does seem the best of the replacements for general use, and has a couple of features over Twitter that should help with general vibe there (minimal algorithm, much more effective blocking), although Mastodon has its place. Threads is trying to do what Meta did to your Facebook algorithm.

[bjn]

Jack Dorsey recently quit Bluesky because it was freespeachy enough for him, which is a good thing for Bluesky. I’m quite happy on Mastodon and it links into Threads and Bluesky feeds.

[Woodchopper]

The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter

Following change in Twitter's ownership and subsequent changes to content moderation policies, many in academia looked to move their discourse elsewhere and migration to Mastodon was pursued by some. Our study looks at the dynamics of this migration. Utilizing publicly available user account data, we track the posting activity of academics on Mastodon over a one year period. Our analyses reveal significant challenges sustaining user engagement on Mastodon due to its decentralized structure as well as competition from other platforms such as Bluesky and Threads. The movement lost momentum after an initial surge of enthusiasm as most users did not maintain their activity levels, and those who did faced lower levels of engagement compared to Twitter. Our findings highlight the challenges involved in transitioning professional communities to decentralized platforms, emphasizing the need for focusing on migrating social connections for long-term user engagement.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04005

An overall decrease in communication seems like a lost opportunity for society at large.