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Endorph posted:nobody really cause i dont have an insta account, i followed a few random twitter guys who posted their threads links and then the Algorithm just decided i wanted to see some guy going off about 'trans faces' and how they dont know how to dress themselves and i was like 'right, im good' Sounds like you followed bigots, or at least people that engage with bigots, over from Twitter lmao
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Jul 7, 2023 22:12
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MunchE posted:the bar is that one website has the CEO actively signal boosting anti trans and white nationalist hate while actively changing the site to make people who post those things more visible. he forces his own posts into everyone's timelines and those posts are very often harassment of minority groups. Facebook is responsible for insane poo poo throughout southeast Asia and also has a right-wing bias that pushes misinformation and scams, they tanked multiple websites and media companies by lying to them about video engagement numbers.. Just because Elon also sucks doesn't make Zuckerberg's company less reprehensible and unsuable.
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Jul 7, 2023 22:14
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Imagine being a CEO guy literally stupider and more incapable of hiding your own profound personality disorders than Zuckerberg. Imagine being less functional than Zuck.
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Jul 7, 2023 22:15
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Neeksy posted:Facebook is responsible for insane poo poo throughout southeast Asia and also has a right-wing bias that pushes misinformation and scams, they tanked multiple websites and media companies by lying to them about video engagement numbers.. Just because Elon also sucks doesn't make Zuckerberg's company less reprehensible and unsuable. This would make sense if everyone wasn't using it as their excuse to stay on the Nazi site
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Jul 7, 2023 22:16
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MunchE posted:This would make sense if everyone wasn't using it as their excuse to stay on the Nazi site nah they both suck and people should be made fun of for using either website in 2023
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Jul 7, 2023 22:19
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apparently there’s at least one person still working in moderation at Twitter because about 1,000 of those dropship scam storefront bots finally got banned https://twitter.com/storescams/status/1677426813306392578?s=46&t=dQl6Iu6Wmq7antcZ30Prgw
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Jul 7, 2023 22:21
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Bruceski posted:I finally got onto Mastadon (the hard part really is just figuring out where to go, sign-up was painless after that trust hurdle), I need to find people I want to follow on there because right now the feed is just people gloating about how good Mastadon is. I'm getting flashbacks to any Linux forum in the 90s. What kind of stuff are you into?
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Jul 7, 2023 22:21
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Propaganda Hour posted:Sounds like you followed bigots, or at least people that engage with bigots, over from Twitter lmao I guess people whose only data is they click on a lot of links to transphobe tweets from threads like this are giving a bunch of algorithms the wrong impression.
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Jul 7, 2023 22:25
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waffle iron posted:https://wapo.st/3JPorNw Those steering wheel weights got removed. Thankfully, you can still buy these, which may work in a pinch. https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Restoration-Tugging-Weights-Foreskin/dp/B092TT3NCC
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Jul 7, 2023 22:27
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MunchE posted:This would make sense if everyone wasn't using it as their excuse to stay on the Nazi site Yea yea nazi site bad got it i dont even own a tv yada yada yada So are you gonna unbookmark this thread where we exclusively bring you more content from the nazi website and its genius founder, Elon Musk
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Jul 7, 2023 22:31
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Propaganda Hour posted:Sounds like you followed bigots, or at least people that engage with bigots, over from Twitter lmao Further Reading posted:I guess people whose only data is they click on a lot of links to transphobe tweets from threads like this are giving a bunch of algorithms the wrong impression.
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Jul 7, 2023 22:32
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'saying facebook has transphobic poo poo on it? i guess you're a nazi  ' is insane
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Jul 7, 2023 22:33
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DominoKitten posted:What kind of stuff are you into? That's kinda the issue, I'm really passive in my social media curation. On Twitter the people I followed were a couple low-mid tier streamers/speedrunners, a comedian, two sites that did admin through Twitter (they've now changed their backends), and a Rabbi who spent a lot of her time championing Progressive causes and dunking on bigots. Then the algorithm just did its work and things would drift into my attention and if I engaged they stayed there. I have no idea what sorts of hashtags I want to pull out of that now that I'm doing the work myself. I had a Twitter account for something like 10 years before I started engaging with any of it, I don't really mind if Mastadon takes 10 more.
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Jul 7, 2023 22:36
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Lol if you haven’t figured out most of the posters in this thread are extreme weirdos
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Jul 7, 2023 22:37
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awesome-express posted:tbh I work for the zucc in a tech role and in our q&as he has mentioned that he is practicing. this happened pretty recently i went back to figure out the timeline jan 2017, zuck says he's always been religious. only questioning things despite removing atheist from his facebook profile. may 2017, zuck starts posting photos that look likehe wants to run for president nov 2017 cambridge analytica scandal breaks out. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebook-ceo-says-he-s-no-longer-atheist-n702631 quote:It seems there might be something more powerful out there than the CEO of the world's largest social media company.
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Further Reading posted:Ths more I hear about how mastadon and other fediverse projects work the more it sounds like someone went "hey you know how reddit is built on volunteer mods creating spaces and then ruling them with an iron fist? What if we gave those people no oversight, genuine responsibilities and the power to decide what you can see outside of the their space?" and no one saw how that could become a problem.
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Jul 7, 2023 22:40
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Unless social media platforms actually do something to curb nazi bullshit (which we all know zuck and most wont because nazis will croon "FREEZEPEACH" until they get thier way) nazis will be all over every new social media platform like flies on fresh meat. Its thier MO now, use every available platform to spread vile poo poo as long as they can get away with it. The old guard might say they would never use *insert platform here* because its not as "free" as others and they might be right, but that just leaves organic small time nazis to grow into new steven crowders and catturds.
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Jul 7, 2023 22:41
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I've been on Threads for about a day and a half or so, and once I read about how to limit your feed to show stuff from only the people you follow, it became like 1000% more tolerable
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Jul 7, 2023 22:56
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In that case I think maybe rooting around on https://fedi.directory and following its account would at least give you a steady variety of other accounts to follow: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/
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Jul 7, 2023 22:59
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I've been on Threads for about a day and a half or so, and once I read about how to limit your feed to show stuff from only the people you follow, it became like 1000% more tolerable I’ve seen this posted before but nobody ever says where that option is. I don’t see it anywhere.
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Jul 7, 2023 23:01
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I'm off of Twitter and haven't made a Threads account - are you folks seeing a major migration over there by people you follow? especially interested if the big journalists like Maggie Haberman are posting over there. seems like the news accounts on twitter are big drivers engagement
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Jul 7, 2023 23:15
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AndrewP posted:I'm off of Twitter and haven't made a Threads account - are you folks seeing a major migration? Idk what it's at right now but doesn't it already have 1/3ish the population of twitter in about 2days? Saw someone say 70+ million earlier today in the thread.
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Jul 7, 2023 23:17
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Sign-ups ain't users. It needs time to settle.
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Jul 7, 2023 23:18
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I've been on Threads for about a day and a half or so, and once I read about how to limit your feed to show stuff from only the people you follow, it became like 1000% more tolerable An empty feed, finally a useful social media platform 
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Jul 7, 2023 23:19
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AndrewP posted:I'm off of Twitter and haven't made a Threads account - are you folks seeing a major migration over there by people you follow? My twitter (mostly podcast people) is basically a ghost town, but I can’t really tell if there’s a migration to Threads because I just keep seeing stupid grindset posts and Paris Hilton. I’ve missed posts my actual friends have made, that I’ve seen by clicking their profile. I think Bluesky was picking up some steam with those tech/news types before, but I never got an invite so they might’ve lost their window.
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Jul 7, 2023 23:22
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my twitter is basically the same but i basically just follow artists and my friends. some people have posted their threads link but i imagine theyre just crossposting rate limit and stuff seems to be gone but ofc musk is too stubborn to actually announce that
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Jul 7, 2023 23:30
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AndrewP posted:I'm off of Twitter and haven't made a Threads account - are you folks seeing a major migration over there by people you follow? It seems like people are keeping a foot in each - I’ve seen a bunch of reporters, sports media, etc over there but they’re definitely posting to both (and probably Bluesky too) The algorithm makes your feed kinda like drinking from a fire hose at first, but after following a few people, blocking a few more, and throwing out a few likes and replies it’s down to either people I follow or accounts that I have some interest in. It’s hard to tell how seriously people are taking it, but there’s definitely a “thank god Elon isn’t here” vibe to things right now. Whether that wears off and usage drops off of a cliff is anyone’s guess.
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Jul 7, 2023 23:34
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I don't really know where people are really planning to move to if they need to. I asked my artist friends and one said Deviantart (probably as a joke) one said she was going back to tumblr, and the other just said they don't know yet.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I’ve seen this posted before but nobody ever says where that option is. I don’t see it anywhere. I got the info from this article: https://mashable.com/article/thread-people-you-follow-feed Note that it still shows stuff you might not be interested in, if someone you follow likes or reposts it, but so far it seems to be a bit less obnoxious than the default "see stuff from everyone" setting.
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Endorph posted:i saw more transphobic posts on the hour i was on threads tbh Endorph posted:i havent seen any content like that on twitter in ages. the tools to prevent yourself from seeing that content still work. threads does not have those tools yet. Oh you’re the poster who said 10% of Instagram users signing up for Threads in 12 hours was bad. I’m guessing 70 million is bad too. You don’t have to like Threads but pretending Twitter is fine is pathetic lol
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AndrewP posted:I'm off of Twitter and haven't made a Threads account - are you folks seeing a major migration over there by people you follow? So far a lot of the people I followed on Instagram seem to have moved over. Of course, the bulk of stuff I followed on IG was either miniature painting/wargaming, 3D printing, pro rasslin', or niche music stuff like synthwave or noise rock, so most of those people were probably hopping over to Threads because Twitter became increasingly useless to them (unless they were willing to buy a blue checkmark and/or deal with countless racist chuds, anyways). Also, anecdotal and all, but thus far I've seen a lot of posts in my feed saying something like "it's so nice to not see a zillion posts from Nazis like you had to on Elon's site, at least for now anyways". Like when someone posted the story about Rudy Giuliani being recommended for disbarment, the bulk of comments were along the lines of "about loving time" instead of "How could they do this to ARE MAYOR, a REAL PATRIOT!!!1!"
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Jul 7, 2023 23:47
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threads owns, it's like entirely internet war heros and brands with way too much memesoak posting in that detached, post-irony, almost punctuationless and zero capitals writing voice, all in the fallout of Elon Musk having a terminal meltdown and irrecoverably losing the irony zone
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Jul 7, 2023 23:48
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yo threads team can we get an edit post button, please!!
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Jul 7, 2023 23:50
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My impression so far is that they accidentally made a better Instagram instead of a better Twitter
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Jul 7, 2023 23:50
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"everyone who doesn't like elon is probably a pedo" 32k likes
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I've not had a twitter ever, didn't auto follow anyone from my instagram when I made a threads account (meaning I had zero people I was following) and the thing had no idea what I wanted to see. Sports stuff right off the bat, ok fine but I don't sports, not even a little bit. Basketball and MLB and all that. Mixed in that was hiphop stuff, fashion and R&B and rap music things of which is fine I guess but certainly not my jam. A whole heap of blue checkmark people that I have no idea who they are. Makeup, fashion icons, quite literally stuff I have absolutely zero interest in. I thought facebook had dibs on everyone! I saw absolutely zero anti trans or hate or conservative anything, and I am a cis white dude in Florida that's almost 40 years old  Blocking every brand and anyone with a blue checkmark I don't recognize has shifted everything to something that is better, but I've landed on Japanese photography. It seems like a bunch of people shitposting and that's pretty neat. Still nothing hateful or disrespectful at all, actually.
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Polygynous posted:"everyone who doesn't like elon is probably a pedo" No, @censoredmen, I don't think so at all, but I do think Goebbels' Law indicates your post might contain some projection here
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I got the info from this article: https://mashable.com/article/thread-people-you-follow-feed Those settings are clearly for push notifications.
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Entropic posted:apparently there’s at least one person still working in moderation at Twitter because about 1,000 of those dropship scam storefront bots finally got banned wow, and it only took how many months like i'd actually noticed i hadn't been seeing any the last few days, but of course now i'm starting to see slightly different obviously bogus crap ... and unfortunately rips a hole in my "twitter is generating fake ads to prop up the numbers" theory
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