I'd forgotten how nice it is to see actual engagement on posts, instead of 20+ badly generated bots, someone managing to get mad at the most innocuous statements, and ads for semi-legal gambling sites.
Ugh, as a gacha gamer I’m going to go on a tangent-rant here. Can we make online gambling completely illegal already? I have a friend who is addicted to her casino app, and every time she wins she tops up in her gacha games, which rewards her for this unhealthy behavior with even more gambling.
a less funny occurrence that very few people realize exists:
bots doing the same thing in community notes
because chatgpt usually have a better syntax than human contributors, they get better ratings than the stolen note, so they gather a bigger score and become able to write even more notes
I suspect this is one of those “give a man a fish” scenarios where people are unaware they can take screenshots on their own so they keep going back and asking the fish farm for more fish when they could just catch them on their own 😭
I do not underestimate the tech incompetence of society.
I found the non-bot blue checks worse. Any tweet that went viral would have at least 50, usually more full-on fascist comments you'd have to scroll past to MAYBE see something resembling a discussion.
My block list was at 49,000 by the end & I'd still see tons of blue-checked BS pushed to the top.
It was bad enough that Blue Checks were boosting the most annoying and hollow replies to the top of every comment section. It's kind of impressive that they came up with something even more pointless and enraging.
The auto-refreshing timelines into super sensitive add popups are the worst for me.
Lots of minor annoyances that pile up together into a miserable user experience.
I mostly just used twitter to see what you or Robert Evans were up to, cuz the vibes were too rancid for anything else and absolutely everyone was hateful, stubborn, or stupid, sometimes all at once. I may actually quit for good if Robert shows up
It’s absolutely infuriating. Who is that for? Are there people who fall for it? That along with the 6 tweets in a row by the same bot somehow taking 7 different positions on the original tweet drove me insane.
Shaun is skeeting about his latest reason for migrating from X (formerly known as Twitter) to Bluesky. He was frustrated about bots that would reply to posts (formerly known as "tweets"), needlessly repeating and explaining the content of the original tweet.
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bots doing the same thing in community notes
because chatgpt usually have a better syntax than human contributors, they get better ratings than the stolen note, so they gather a bigger score and become able to write even more notes
I do not underestimate the tech incompetence of society.
My block list was at 49,000 by the end & I'd still see tons of blue-checked BS pushed to the top.
Lots of minor annoyances that pile up together into a miserable user experience.