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Twitter looking into a bug restricting some users from liking and retweeting.

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[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're still on Twitter, you're part of the problem.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I am, since that's where the people I follow mostly post. I also have Cohost, Mastodon, Tumblr, Post News and Hive accounts, of which I frequently use Cohost, Mastodon and Tumblr.

I suppose content is king.

[–] ppb1701@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Greenpepper. This is what happens when you cut most of the supporting work force, scrap a chunk of infrastructure, tend to not pay bills, and just toss crap at the wall to see what sticks and hopefully doesn't break things.

[–] Hypx@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Twitter will eventually become unmaintainable since so many of the original devteam was laid-off. Once it becomes a "black box" that no one at the company understands anymore, Twitter will effectively stop working.

[–] Thalyssa@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Woah so I guess gutting your engineering staff has consequences?!

[–] Lightninhopkins@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

This will be what reddit will be like once Spez follows in Elon's footsteps.

[–] InLikeClint@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I made a twitter account like 12 years ago. It was mostly to live tweet during big MMA events. It was so fun to see all the people I followed react to a big finish of a fight. Now I only use it to send a weekly picture of turtles to my grandmother in her 90s (I helped her make her account and the turtle is her spirit animal). For the few minutes I'm on there, it's all NY Jets and republicans on my feed. What kind of fuck ass algorithm fills my screen with shit I hate? The whole site is purposely trying to stir up drama. Back in the day you would only see tweets from like minded people. Now that racist asshole in charge just wants to start fights and build the hate. Fuck him and that shit ass site.

[–] Tyson712@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop using that trash, it's just a black hole of noise anyway

[–] niktemadur@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When the wagner putsch was happening this weekend, I dove into Nitter to see - as Twitter is still always the fastest to spread content from whatever news ground zero pops up - and so many of the comments were just mindless or toxic drivel. God only knows how much of it is automated. Like the old saying goes, "the comments section is cancer". I saw nothing of value in the comments. NOTHING.

[–] zcd@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Elon just trying to dial up the racism probably

[–] Yewb@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

We all secretly wanted this to happen, may the delicious schadenfreude begin!

[–] poo@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's amazing how much respect I've lost for Big Tech in the last 2 years. All my favorite apps are nosediving and it's been entertaining to watch.

You ever had respect for big tech?

[–] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Didn’t all of Twitter’s engineering staff get replaced by immigrants? Oh, nope, it was just greed.

[–] PierreKanazawa@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago

Twitter's gonna be buggier than kbin (which is in alpha)

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Brought you by the guy who is building "self-driving" cars

[–] retronautickz@fedi196.gay 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would anyone still be on Twitter when Mastodon, Akkoma, Calckey, GoToSocial, etc exist?

[–] YMS@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Part of the answer is: because they all (and more, from Facebook to kbin) exist. If there would be the one big Twitter alternative where everybody who ever wanted to leave Twitter would go to, then there would be a chance that you'll find enough interesting accounts to follow there (and then it would become more attractive for others to go there and find enough followers, and so on). But if one goes to place A, one to place B, one to place C, then you likely won't find the one place where everybody you wanted to follow is.

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