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OT: The News Thread

Besides the the obvious hilariousness, I'm really getting a kick our of all the old timey formal language ("to whom she married" "in pleasing any man she may lay with") followed by a bunch of random "lol"s
 
hockeylover said:
Retweets are fine. I expect to see retweets of people I’m following, that’s all good. I’m simply seeing random tweets because someone on my list just follows someone else. And it’s pretty much constantly.
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Except for retweets, there’s no reason you should have to see tweets from anyone you’re not following.

To fix that, click on this icon up in the top right-hand corner of the app:

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…and that takes you to this pop-up:


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“Home” = Twitter’s algorithm shows you tweets from people you follow and tweets of people it thinks you’ll be interested in (including people you don’t follow yourself).

“Latest tweets” = you only see tweets from people you follow (or tweets retweeted by people you follow) and you see them in the chronological order they were posted in.

I always set mine to “latest tweets”, and I never see anything from people I don’t follow. And if someone I do follow has a habit of retweeting shit I’m not interested in, I can turn off their ability to retweet into my timeline.

For several months Twitter kept switching me back to “Home” automatically and I’d have to go manually change it back to “latest tweets”. But the app seems to have gotten the hint now.
 
Honestly I don't care about my feed. It's the fact that the news is going to start covering what trump tweets that really depresses me.
 
I think the free speech thing is a bit of a red herring. You choose who to follow and can block/mute people anyway.

But Twitter can actually authenticate humans, eliminate bots, and make the algorithm open source there is a lot of potential to solve the real problems with social media of ai funnelling information people don't benefit from to keep them mad and engaged, through the heavy influence of foreign troll farms propaganda.
 
hockeylover said:
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Problem is that Elon is completely full of shit. He loves censorship and has censored the fuck out of anyone he had the power to censor whenever he's deemed it necessary, he just loves being the one with his hand on the switch. Elon has threatened stock bloggers with lawsuits, threatened companies that employed his critics with lawsuits, fired employees for public statements, canceled a journalists Tesla X order over an article Elon didn't like, fired employees for reporting racist remarks in the workplace, etc, etc, etc...it's not a short list of Elon using his position and power to shut other people up.
 
MindzEye said:
Problem is that Elon is completely full of shit. He loves censorship and has censored the fuck out of anyone he had the power to censor whenever he's deemed it necessary, he just loves being the one with his hand on the switch. Elon has threatened stock bloggers with lawsuits, threatened companies that employed his critics with lawsuits, fired employees for public statements, canceled a journalists Tesla X order over an article Elon didn't like, fired employees for reporting racist remarks in the workplace, etc, etc, etc...it's not a short list of Elon using his position and power to shut other people up.
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they should have just done all that on twitter
 
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