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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by valval on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:53AM (#36586689)
I doubt what you're saying is even close to true. Hand out the evidence.
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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by dragontamer on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:56AM (#36586730)
https://ain.capital/2023/06/07/ukrainians-are-massively-shad...

https://imi.org.ua/en/news/twitter-shadowbans-ukrainians-who...

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Something like this came up as age-restricted: https://twitter.com/ukraine6679/status/1573928649304276994

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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by valval on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:59AM (#36586779)
A Ukrainian news site seems like great evidence indeed.
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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by dragontamer on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @10:00AM (#36586802)
Do you expect the Russians to talk about Ukrainian accounts getting shadowbanned on Twitter?

Of course this news would come from Ukrainian sources.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/NAFO/comments/145zfi7/twitter_has_d...

Its pretty obvious too. Traffic to Ukrainian-meme accounts dropped significantly. Anyone following Ukrainian accounts saw traffic go from thousands+ into just single-digits when the deboosting / shadowbans started.

I am part of that crowd who visited Ukrainian memes and saw them disappear from Twitter. So consider _ME_ to be a source on this as well.

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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by philwelch on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:45PM (#36590992)
Maybe Twitter just stopped artificially boosting pro-Ukraine content.
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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by dragontamer on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:59PM (#36591162)
And it coincidentally matched all these Ukrainian videos being locked behind age-verification?

Again, Ukrainian memes include a bunch of soldiers petting cats or dogs, or helping kids. Its not all frontline war footage. In fact, the meme accounts tend to be more tailored towards the cat videos.

The frontline footage accounts absolutely should be age-verified. But the meme accounts getting age-locked proves that Twitter suddenly had a change of heart over Ukrainians.

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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by philwelch on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:06PM (#36591250)
I’ve hardly seen any age verification on war content, though to be fair I don’t follow a lot of the propaganda (“meme”) accounts you’re discussing.

Also, Twitter doesn’t have an age verification mechanism; it just sort of requires you to click through to see images that have been tagged as sensitive content.

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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by dragontamer on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:10PM (#36591294)
They've basically moved onto https://nafo.uk / Mastodon instance now, if you wanna see what its mostly about. (I guess I see on Mastodon.world as well)

Twitter is obviously hostile to them, so they were basically forced to move. Given that Threads is likely going to be Mastodon/Fediverse compatible, that basically means that pro-Ukrainian side will be migrating off of Twitter and likely be compatible with Meta / Instagram Threads.

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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by philwelch on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:16PM (#36591379)
Good for them. I’m mostly interested in OSINT content, not so much war propaganda.
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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by dragontamer on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @04:06PM (#36591888)
For OSINT, I usually use the Institute for the Study of War.

https://www.understandingwar.org/

I also prefer OSINT stuff over propaganda memes. But I don't think that the propaganda memes should be deboosted / shadowbanned, especially if they are ya know? Honest memes / funnier stuff SFW?

The question is of Twitter and their shadowban policy. They're still clearly shadowbanning / deboosting / manipulating results. Its just switched politics, that's all.

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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by philwelch on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @10:26PM (#36594870)
> For OSINT, I usually use the Institute for the Study of War.

Yes, that’s one of the sources I use as well.

> But I don't think that the propaganda memes should be deboosted / shadowbanned

I’m still not convinced that they are, to be honest.

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