Non-Consensual Personalization

Re:Non-Consensual Personalization by reactspa on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:26PM (#30202454)

The most bizarre case is Twitter forcing me to see tweets in order of some algorithm instead of in chrono order.

They let me switch to chrono order.

And then automatically switch back after a month or so.

And then I switch back to chrono order. And so on. Resulting in a constant kabuki.

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Re:Non-Consensual Personalization by underclocked on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:30PM (#30202498)

I stopped screwing around with the official twitter app years ago. I switched to Tweetbot and never looked back. No ads and chronological order are worth whatever the app costs to me.

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Re:Non-Consensual Personalization by reactspa on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:32PM (#30202897)

I'm addicted to Twitter, so I force myself to view it in the web app (because it's a little more friction compared to apps).

It's not even that the Twitter algorithm is any good. Sometimes when showing a thread, it'll start with the most popular tweet of the thread instead of the first tweet of the thread.

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