Trying to prep myself for when they foxify all social media platforms.
Edit: you all better be careful saying you don’t see any of it. Leon might catch wind.
I recently had to login in to update to a new 2FA app and oh my was it a wasteland. No one I had followed was still on it. And I mean that after scrolling for 5 minutes. It was just terrible.
I mean, if they left it, possibly went to Mastodon, that sounds wonderful to me:-).
It’s not perfect, but Mastidon is starting to pass the tipping point for content.
i kept using it for the few mildly high quality posts by queer people, but it feels like it almost stopped. might delete my account now
Allright knuckleheads, here’s what you do:
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Follow people who’s content you’re interested in
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Browse Following and not For You
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That’s litterally it
I get so peeved when people browse algorithmic feeds and then complain that they see bad content. You fools. You cretins. I’ll have you know that i actually have a pleasant experience on Twitter AND THAT’S NOT A JOKE, i genuinely have a good time on a bad website purely because i stay away from the For You feed. It’s literally that simple. The only time i get conservative propaganda is when someone i follow quote tweets it with a snarky response.
I’ve had someone assume i was a nazi because i’m still on Twitter and i got a little (too) mad at them because we clearly don’t share the same reality. They browsed For You and quite rightfully left the site never to return, and they don’t understand how i’m able to stay; no shit, i’m able to stay because i don’t browse Following.
Now the thing is, this is how i’ve always used the internet, from the start i’ve built my follows list with this browsing habit in mind so i only follow like 200 people with the specific purpose of seeing their content; but for a lot of users, following is more like pressing “like” on a profile, and they end up following 5000 accounts. In that case you’re gonna get way too much content sprayed at you and pruning your follows list is going to take forever. I don’t know what to do in that situation tbh
Musk still forces his own tweets, his advertisers, and whatever else he chooses into your feed, even your “following” page. You can’t block it.
Ads yes, everything else no. I haven’t seen a musk tweet or any tweet from someone I don’t follow that wasn’t sponsored or an rt from someone I do follow at any point in the following tab.
This is just a lie. Have him muted and never see his tweets.
Not a lie, it’s how I remember it working (and complained about at the time) but it’s entirely possible they changed things since I deleted.
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You know you can just… stop visiting all social media sites right? Its not easy but its very doable. Ive mostly done it (significantly reduced to almost nothing).
I’m just here on lemmy. I’ve been lurking reddit just to see more breaking news but that will stop come novemeber.
Why November? Is something happening?
Finally, the End of all things.
Should we tell him?
By all means. Full us in!
I was just joking. I habitually check reddit hoping Trump sits on his own balls or something. Will continue until till the election.
We are on social media right now?
Yeah, but lemmy is awesome
Touché @FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
You can’t argue with that logic.
You can, but you’d be wrong.
I’m on Mbin, but I don’t disagree with you.
Mbin is awesome too!
mbin gang!
Again, I have to agree.
Lemmy isn’t social media. If you’re defining forums as social media then literally and comment section on any website, including blogs and news sites somehow become social media. I don’t know how people started thinking forums are social media but it’s just plain incorrect.
Forums and comments sections are 100% social media, you are mistaken there. I guess we’ll just have to argue back and forth ad nauseam or something
What an insane take.
retort
Your logic means literally every website on the planet with any sort of text input is social media. It’s literally an insane take.
counter retort
I said I reduced mine, not eliminated.
Fair enough. Fediverse is just better anyways IMO, barely counts as social media lol
Sometimes this feels like antisocial media.
That’s what blocking is for:-)
Is that what a block party is? I’ve heard legends of them.
It’s pretty much just a forum with voting.
Not all humans live in America. It is possible for people to use Twitter without seeing material related to your country’s political shituation.
I installed a extension to block everyone with a checkmark after Elon introduced paying for them. My feed has even less shitters then before its amazing. If I ever want to add more I just go to any AOC tweet and let the extension work.
I’m still pissed at the way Reddit was celebrating Musk’s takeover, as if it was some big loss to him. Oh boy, a billionaire lost some money that he would have wiped his ass with, this is great as long as the fascist doesn’t turn the biggest social media platform into a fascist mouthpiece!
I don’t see any of it really, my feed is all gay stuff lol
funnily enough, my twitter feed doesn’t have any conservative media.
it is full of gay bara scalie porn, though.
For me it’s Russian invasion of Ukraine. With a few local politicians doing stupid things mixed in.
I tell some people to KMS just so the website forces me into a ban for 6 days.
Its nice.
You mean you tell them to KYS right?
Yes. Im not doing it out of pure rudeness, It’s all towards people who either openly will share Pedophilic/Animal abuse content or people that will mock/turn school shootings into some kind of conspiracy theory. Those people fucking sicken me.
Sounds like a healthy use of your time
Not on Twitter but lol, what a leading question
It’s nice to see a place where conservative ideas can be expressed without being buried. It makes me feel less alone.
Which conservative ideas, though? It’s fine to disagree on like tax policy, or food regulation, but hopefully you can understand why many people won’t tolerate beliefs that actively harm others, even if you firmly hold those beliefs
I follow scientists, virologists, epidemiologists, etc and get tweets with the latest covid research. I also see a lot of stuff from Gaza and a few things about movies. I’m moving off there but while some people are only on there and giving me information, I’ll keep going back.
Be the change you want to see. Those people will never leave the platform as long as people like you still engage with them there.
Well they should.
I like to clown on nazis
Especially when they’re shitting bricks in the reply section of a post from either Mark Hamill or Stephen King
They would need to be force feeding me conservative content in order for me to be able to answer the question. They’re not and never have been. Same applies to ads.
