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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'sā¦ 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 thank you this was interesting. I'm particularly in agreement with the part about the "socialness" going away, and I think it applies to all commercial social media. Commercial social media is turning into traditional TV: a one-way avenue to show ads to users. The content doesn't matter as long as it keeps you engaged, so from their perspective there's no point in letting you form social bonds anymore.
@gabrielesvelto yeah. i think the decay is so upsetting on twitter because it used to be different; there's other sites that were basically always like this and therefore didn't experience this kind of loss.