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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 yeah, and it's not just the default being pushed so hard, it's also that it is a “timeline” to begin with. there was a time when the algo recs were just sprinkled in alongside normal following stuff, not their own thing. and as much as it annoyed me and everyone else at the time, that was much closer to a good model, imo

@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.