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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Becoming?

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Only 1 year ago, Twitter was the shining beacon of evidence based discussion and integrity for the internet age. Never forget.

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• argo_yamato@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wow even nature.com has an article about how bad twitter has become, did not see that one coming.

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  • Kissaki@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You could say it’s about the nature of Twitter.

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  • applejacks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    they’ve been posting their dumb political takes for years now.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re aware that Nature is a multidisciplinary scientific journal, yes?

      If you’re insinuating that Nature is generally overtly political, you should really see someone to get that cranial-rectal inversion checked out.

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    • poopsmith@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      …such as?

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• sndmn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Becoming”

  LOL

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  • Rhoeri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Was going to say this same thing.

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    • ExLisper@linux.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s ok, you can still say it. No one will think you copied it.

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• FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s always been bad.

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  • Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is overstated.

    In the old days, there was a hierarchy of reputability. At the top you had the bluechecks that generally represented reputable sources of information, who had premium billing in the platform. Then you had the normies. Then you had the slush-pit of soft-blocked people that were shoved into the “other replies” box because everybody hated them and they only followed their network of bots.

    Now, the hierarchy is reversed. The slush-pit people are now have blue-checks, the algorithmic boost on blue-checks is even stronger, and half of the old reputable blue-checks have left.

    This is like saying “Reddit/Lemmy has always been awful” if we made the upvotes/downvotes of all the worst people on the site worth 100X what a normal person’s upvote/downvote was worth. Yes, there have always been problems, but they can get worse.

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    • FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You must not pay attention, I’m new to Lemmy, but Reddit’s been garbage for years. Seems like a lot of that garbage made it’s way to Lemmy too. Face it anything that you can hide behind a screen and a keyboard with relative anonymity is fucking shit. It outs people for the kind of person they REALLY are when they don’t have to face the repercussions of saying shit to someones face.

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  • Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This isn’t pointed out enough, IMO. People act like it went sharply downhill under Musk but this is the platform that enabled extremists for years and only even banned Trump when he did a literal Jan 6th. Maybe Twitter was good in like 2010 but I really don’t think Musk changed THAT much about it.

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    • USSEthernet@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      👋 hello fellow trekkie in the wild

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    • FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s just because people are being TOLD that it’s bad now. It’s literally no worse than it was 5 years ago. Twitter has always been a cesspool of human “thought”.

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    • Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Okay, but the new Twitter reinstated him, and a bunch of Nazis.

      I mean, old Twitter was jokingly called “the hellsite” by its users but the Muskening is quite a lot worse.

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  • demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    but it has become much worse in the past year

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    • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      unrelated to your comment, but demon sword or demon’s word?

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    • FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      because you’re being told it is. twitter has always been a cesspool.

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  • ribboo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not nearly this bad. Go read the article. It’s much easier to spread crap nowadays, even though you could before.

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• masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s always been a cesspit of misinformation… Phony Stark is now merely advertising it as a feature.

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  • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lobe that nickname! Imma steal it.

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• MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Twitter’s influence has always been overstated by the media type, and the personalized recommendation algorithm it used has always been a black box to be gamed, and what this article really showed is that it is an inheritly unfair game and the people who writes the rules of the platform (in this case, Musk), can push whatever hot take they want to push to influence public opinion, and people who don’t have that level of access to Twitter will brute force follower with bots in the hopes that it’ll lure more real users to influence.

  So, dead internet theory and all, until we fully automate Twitter to bots influencing bots. There is no authenticity anymore, it’s all disinformation from all sides.

  Nowadays, I like to pretend that I never had a Twitter or Insta. Not a healthy way of coping, I know, but it’s way less stressful that way.

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• solidsnake2085@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So just like old Twitter, who cares, shut it down.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To paraphrase Mitch “RIP” Hedburg: I’m a cesspool of disinformation. I used to be a cesspool of disinformation, but I’m still one, too.

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• demesisx@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is

  by design

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• jose1324@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Becoming?

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• StraightArrow@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve never used Twitter, nor liked it, but in 2010 I had to observe that it was indeed useful when it became one of the primary ways for people to communicate during the Arab Spring.

  Since then I kept not being into it, but at least I thought it had some important value I had not seen.

  Now it’s all locked up, so it really has become useless (and I haven’t even talked about the ranpant disinformation)

  RIP Twitter

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• Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I once read a quote that roughly translates as “Even the greatest wizard of all time can’t transform bread into bread”.

  I always thought it was stupid, but makes more sense now.

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• Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just like the old Twitter

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• thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “This shitty site is still shitty! Click our article pleeeeease”

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• thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean if this was written in 2010 I would definitely agree.

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• z00s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  New? Becoming?!

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• FoundTheVegan@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not that it's a long ways to fall...

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• bemenaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well duh

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• TornadoRex@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a feature, not a bug.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As Elon and the Saudis intended.

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• roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The subhead is important in getting the gist of this article "study it now." Meaning the ridiculous amount of research on Twitter was dumb for awhile, but now that it's changing it might be worth looking at.

  They also point out why it's not going to happen

  Refocusing on studying X won’t be easy. It will require new methods and approaches that do not depend on the large amounts of data that were easily accessible before.

  The API access was what made it so heavily studied and the current costs are why this change isn't going to be.

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• Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Always-has-been.webp

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• nick@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Becoming”

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