I think it's cool that they're actively trying to innovate in this space and relatively in the open.
My favorite is when someone complains about their view count or something and head of product replies with screenshots or stats showing the person promoted some crypto scam or is AI slop. Sometimes he agrees and addresses the complaints.
Compare that to other PR bots that say "sorry you experienced that, send us a DM". What other social network is actually trying to innovate and engage w people in the open.
The move to include people's country of origin was also brilliant. It was eye opening when so many accounts that were v interested in American politics turned out to be from se asia.
Back in the day I had 4 twitter accounts for different interests, I would see tech talk on one, art or photography on others, it was great, each felt like a connected but different corner of the same world.
I left over a year ago when all of them just became dominated by the same nft and crypto posts everywhere. Couldn't scroll my timeline without seeing fake BBC news articles promising "David Attenboroughs best crypto investment " whatever account I was in. I'm not sure cleaning up a mess they made themselves is really "actively innovating", but I'd agree the country thing would have been interesting back when I used it
In turning into a far-right echo-chamber? Of the direct competitors, only Threads is closed. Mastodon has no ~algorithm~ discover feed, Bluesky is completely open source.
I'm sure this is no good deed on Elon's part. Everything he does is some ulterior motive or someone is forcing his hand. Or maybe he just wants to show off for his sycophantic buddies.
Guys the algo is transparent because EU forced them
I think it's cool that they're actively trying to innovate in this space and relatively in the open.
My favorite is when someone complains about their view count or something and head of product replies with screenshots or stats showing the person promoted some crypto scam or is AI slop. Sometimes he agrees and addresses the complaints.
Compare that to other PR bots that say "sorry you experienced that, send us a DM". What other social network is actually trying to innovate and engage w people in the open.
The move to include people's country of origin was also brilliant. It was eye opening when so many accounts that were v interested in American politics turned out to be from se asia.
https://x.com/i/status/2055822738972115230
Back in the day I had 4 twitter accounts for different interests, I would see tech talk on one, art or photography on others, it was great, each felt like a connected but different corner of the same world.
I left over a year ago when all of them just became dominated by the same nft and crypto posts everywhere. Couldn't scroll my timeline without seeing fake BBC news articles promising "David Attenboroughs best crypto investment " whatever account I was in. I'm not sure cleaning up a mess they made themselves is really "actively innovating", but I'd agree the country thing would have been interesting back when I used it
I would like to see the other social networks following X's steps.
In turning into a far-right echo-chamber? Of the direct competitors, only Threads is closed. Mastodon has no ~algorithm~ discover feed, Bluesky is completely open source.
I'm sure this is no good deed on Elon's part. Everything he does is some ulterior motive or someone is forcing his hand. Or maybe he just wants to show off for his sycophantic buddies.
Maybe it would be nice to be able to appreciate a Github repo which is actually useful without talking about politics?
Not possible with a billionaire who's actively trying to destroy the world. What would Lex Luther's Github look like I wonder?
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