Casey NewtonI had hoped by now that the media would have begun to divorce Twitter. Instead, some journalists are doubling down.
Some thoughts on why:
https://www.platformer.news/p/why-journalists-cant-quit-twitter
Rick Ellis - AllYourScreens@caseynewton The decline of Twitter has made things more difficult for me because I'm now juggling audiences across Twitter, Mastodon, Post & Spoutible
FWIW, I've found using the ELK web interface makes the Mastodon experience much more pleasant. Although as you say, the lack of a reply quote feature is a minus
The ironic thing is that while the perception in the public is that quote tweeting leads to an increase in bullying, multiple studies dispute that. What matters is a chronological feed
AccordionBruce@AccordionBruce @caseynewton Twitter engineers did a bunch of user studies and found that a chronological feed made dunking and abuse a lot less likely. It apparently has something to do with the tweets being more in context, rather than some random thing popping up. And that out of context quality encourages people to dunk on the tweet. It sounds a bit counter-intuitive, but apparently they have a lot of data to support it.
@aysrick @caseynewton
Rational / sequential conversation leading to less abuse seems reasonable 🤷🏻♂️
Nix that feature!
@aysrick @caseynewton
I always read chronologically with #Tweetbot
And can’t really make sense of Twitter now without that app
Even without all the other changes, reading algorithmically I lose interest. It’s just noise with no order
@AccordionBruce @caseynewton For all of the complaints about Twitter, the original approach of offering either an algorithmic feed or one that mostly just offered people you followed or who followed you made 99 percent of the users relatively happy. I honestly don't understand the approach they're using now. You can only see some of the people you follow in the "following" feed & the "for you" feed is mostly just random garbage..