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Re:The algorithm is killing Twitter and it's driving me insane by mikewarot on Saturday October 05, 2024 @03:09AM (#41748208)
Up until 3 minutes ago, I figured that using the non-algorithm side of Twitter (and Facebook) as a solution that I could live with. I now see that it's changed the nature of the public that will eventually interact with me, and influence me.

I have to figure out how to tell which of my followers is an actual well intentioned human, and purge the rest

I miss Reddit, having nuked my account, and vowing never to go back.

The only tenable future is going back to Blogs and RSS, where there's no algorithm, for the most part.

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Re:The algorithm is killing Twitter and it's driving me insane by aurareturn on Saturday October 05, 2024 @04:01AM (#41748376)
>I miss Reddit, having nuked my account, and vowing never to go back.

Just curious, why?

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Re:The algorithm is killing Twitter and it's driving me insane by mikewarot on Saturday October 05, 2024 @11:55AM (#41750740)
The utilization of everything I said there to train AI without consent. At least that's what I think it was... Brain fog sucks.

I'd dump all social networks if I could, but my family is at Facebook.

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Re:The algorithm is killing Twitter and it's driving me insane by Ancalagon on Saturday October 05, 2024 @12:29PM (#41751018)
I also deleted Reddit.

In my case there were too many negative opinions affecting my mood, and I was spending too much time on the site

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Re:The algorithm is killing Twitter and it's driving me insane by z3ncyberpunk on Saturday October 05, 2024 @08:20PM (#41753804)
Because Reddit took a nose dive years ago into an extreme left-wing authoritarian cesspool?
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