FeralRobotsJust glanced at the front page of Twitter (which I do maybe once a week), & 3 of the first 20 tweets on the anonymous timeline are from Musk.
2 are from Andrew Tate.
I mean, just in case anyone wondered how it's going over here.
Since I don't have accounts anymore I only know about Twitter culture from the anonymous home feed or from replies to tweets shared over here. Here are some things those tell me:
* Musk still has the 'Stroke Elon's Ego' setting tweaked up pretty high.
* Algo is really aggressive now about promoting toxic assholes, including rapists like Tate.
* LOT of black folks still on Twitter. Golly, I wonder why that is - couldn't possibly be because Mastodon communities were so hostile to them last fall.
* Musk still has the 'Stroke Elon's Ego' setting tweaked up pretty high.
* Algo is really aggressive now about promoting toxic assholes, including rapists like Tate.
* LOT of black folks still on Twitter. Golly, I wonder why that is - couldn't possibly be because Mastodon communities were so hostile to them last fall.
🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸@FeralRobots is there a specific incident that happened last fall? I caught some of the QT discorse, but never heard a racial component. If anything it seemed to me that marginalized people are pretty much in agreement that QTs cause more harm than good. Did I miss something?
@schizanon
If that's your take, then yes, you missed something.
Check out #MissedQuoteBoost for tip-of-the-iceberg* of illustrations of what's lost by not having quote boost. Earlier in the time stream you'll find links to discussions of why that mattered more to black people.
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*only fairly geeky folks used that hashtag. others got fed up & left.
If that's your take, then yes, you missed something.
Check out #MissedQuoteBoost for tip-of-the-iceberg* of illustrations of what's lost by not having quote boost. Earlier in the time stream you'll find links to discussions of why that mattered more to black people.
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*only fairly geeky folks used that hashtag. others got fed up & left.
@FeralRobots My take is that QTs are often used for dunking. I'm fine with that, but I'm an anon, and a white american cismale IRL--I'll cop to the dunking I get-- but I can see how others would feel differently.
@schizanon They have been often used for dunking; but they have also often been used for what I just heard someone refer to as "yes, and"-ing, & "this made me think of this other thing"-ing, & those are things you can't easily do by other means. You can see examples of this in the #MissedQuoteBoost tag.
Dunking on Twitter evolved over time, too, & was very often accomplished by screenshotting - where the screenshot gave brigades everything they needed to do their brigading.
@schizanon & in fact, if you dig deep into #MissedQuoteBoost, you'll see that one of the main communities that got demonized for wanting to quote boost was black people coming over from Twitter. I.e., not white male.
I follow a bunch of trans folks, & I've seen a sharp divide between ones that came over from Twitter & ones that were here before. Those that came over often seemed to find the local attitudes toward quote boost & CWs to be puzzling. As though they were trying to suppress comms.