Elon Musk buys and ruins Twitter

[grunge]

His algorithm is open sourced. You are served content you engage with the most. Infact pre takeover social media were biased towards left wing taking orders from govt on censoring stuff. You will atleast now hear stuff directly from leaders than being showed selective mis interpreted content .

Id hazard a guess that the videos dont go through that algorithm at all. everyone I know gets fed the same sort of shit if you flick through the "for you" videos.

Give it a go. go to "For you". find any video and play full screen. swipe up/down to see next video. within a minute or 2 you will start to see the cesspool.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Id hazard a guess that the videos dont go through that algorithm at all. everyone I know gets fed the same sort of shit if you flick through the "for you" videos.

Give it a go. go to "For you". find any video and play full screen. swipe up/down to see next video. within a minute or 2 you will start to see the cesspool.

Weird that they don't have any sort of automoderation that auto filters through the violent content like YouTube and bans the uploader.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

There seems to be quite a significant move to withdraw from Twitter since the election, and since Musk was given a US govt role (or a prospect of). Organisations, celebrities, quite a broad range. I think it's just a convenient break point - Twitter use has changed noticeably since Musk took over, and more notably in the past 6 months as he's gone in with Trump.

I think the barrage of propaganda and lies that is now seen, as the algorithm has clearly been tweaked to favour the right-wing stuff and whatever Musk's conspiracy of the week happens to be, some of it graphic in the extreme and equally much is lies or misrepresented.

Additionally, some have complained about the type of material that has been attached to or appears alongside their posts - Disney, Apple, Comcast have stopped advertising because their ads appeared with pro-Nazi stuff, etc.
NPR have dropped it because Twitter started claiming state-affiliation on some media.

I don’t use X/Twitter, but now that they’ve used it to help Trump win the election, I’d be very worried of them gathering information from those not supporting him or Musk.

Data can be used multiple ways, not only to ‘Push’.

 

[inbetween]

It does seem a bit of "I cannot win so I'm taking my ball home" and coming just after the Trump win it looks utterly childish. However, I think the Guardian news reporting is probably the most reliant but it is let down by it's very obvious biases and not a patch of the paper it once was. I've never used Twitter or Facebook but, similar to most forums, it seems it's dominated by angry posters trying to force everyone to their political view by abuse rather than debate.

I just think if somebody wants to say or read utter horseshit then that's their decision, I don't know why everybody is so bothered. I don't read the Guardian, that's my decision, it doesn't mean that I think the Guardian should be outlawed but everybody just loves a bloody protest nowadays don't they?

The Guardian however is a newspaper, we all think its job is to report the news but that isn't actually true. All media exists to sell news and not to report it. They do that by attaching opinion and 'gossip' to that news and that's why they've left. X is now anathema to them as a left-leaning newspaper so they have left. They however just had to inform readers of that just so of course the readers will rejoice and buy more Guardian newspapers.

X is however a major threat to this type of big media because opinion isn't being shaped anymore by major corporates trying to sell news to their target demographics. Instead it's being shaped by people of all creeds talking to each other via a communication medium that has unlimited reach. The unfortunate problem is that humans often do have terrible views.

X is probably now the biggest reflection of what humanity actually is, warts'n'all. We can suppress that via the media and for example deplatform X and the people who post on it but we shouldn't be surprised when they express themselves and vote for somebody like Trump or Nigel Farage. Harris appeared a cast iron guarantee to win the US election, and look, everybody got it wrong including the media, and we wonder why?

 

[west didsblue]

It does seem a bit of "I cannot win so I'm taking my ball home" and coming just after the Trump win it looks utterly childish. However, I think the Guardian news reporting is probably the most reliant but it is let down by it's very obvious biases and not a patch of the paper it once was. I've never used Twitter or Facebook but, similar to most forums, it seems it's dominated by angry posters trying to force everyone to their political view by abuse rather than debate.

I don’t really see it as that. Why would they want to use a site whose values are totally at odds to their’s when there’s other options available. X is effectively turning into Gab or Parler, and other social media will pick up users who don’t want to wallow in the X cesspit.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

X is however a major threat to this type of big media because opinion isn't being shaped anymore by major corporates trying to sell news to their target demographics. Instead it's being shaped by people of all creeds talking to each other via a communication medium that has unlimited reach. The unfortunate problem is that humans often do have terrible views.

The unfortunate problem is that millions have access to a bully pulpit they didn’t earn via hard work and expertise. The unfortunate problem is that there are no editors for quality-control, fact-checking and tone. The unfortunate problem is when everyone has access to the same pulpit, extremism that otherwise should be considered a tiny minority view becomes considered a major threat, which creates more extremism to counteract it. The unfortunate problem is that due to speed and immediacy, what is false becomes true — discovering truth takes time.

Legacy media has lots of problems. New media has far, far more.

 

[MCFC1993]

I think the issue we've seen with X is that it inherently isn't fair, you can call other places echo chambers all you want, X was throttling certain pages and pushing certain content people's way and still is.

Social Media platforms need responsible owners for them to function for everybody. Musk is not that. He was the one pleading for neutrality and then ended up running a campaign for a US presdential candidate.

For me it's the bait engagement and constant pushing of stuff I didn't want to see that pushed me off of X.

Yes I've moved over to Bluesky, yes it's leaning left although I have seen stuff I don't agree with but it's a lot easier to design how you want your social media to be. I don't think this is just a phase, I think people are genuinely done with Musk and X.

 

[TinFoilHat]

He really thinks everything is a game

 

[MillionMilesAway]

He really thinks everything is a game

Isn't that his crypto coin Doge dog?

 

[bluethrunthru]

first the Gaurdian now this