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Something Happened on twitter, and i entered the longest most productive and emotionally significant period of hyperfocus of my life, and channeled my anger and sadness into creative ends, and what came out was this blog post that's… very plausibly the longest thing i've ever written in one sitting, and somehow the most coherent and digestible. it's about what's happening to twitter. please read it. i poured my heart into it. https://hikari.noyu.me/blog/2024-10-02-the-algorithm-is-killing-twitter-and-its-driving-me-insane.html

@hikari i think one thing that caused or at least accelerated this shift isn’t just a change in what the algorithm does but also them making the purely algo „for you“ timeline the default. A lot of people do not change the default. I was talking to someone recently who *did not even realize that you can switch to „following“* on twitter.

@halcy@icosahedron.website @hikari@social.noyu.me, do you really think it was better when getting access to a proper feed was locked behind an arbitrary sparkles / clock button that randomly overwrote itself and that you had to know in order to know?
The change to make the follow feed a separate header from the random shit feed was like the one good thing the Elon era did.

@aliceif I do think that the sheer pushiness has increased (though they toned it down after) with the change that made it switch to For You every single time you opened the app plus sometimes randomly anyways and with third party clients being gone, but who knows. I have not been an active twitter user for a while, so I get this as mostly second hand information and/or noticing that my feed is dogshit once again whenever I do open it maybe once or twice a month

@aliceif @halcy oh i agree that being able to just swipe between them is great, but that's not really the problem