Re:X open sourced their latest algorithm
by next_xibalba on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @01:43PM
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Twitter/X user here. I agree with GP, it’s better than it was pre-Elon. The For You feed definitely seems less biased, more interesting, and fewer flame wars. I also think the exodus of Bluesky-ers has helped that (for which Elon gets partial credit). Yes, they do seem to have been backfilled by their right-side mirror images, but those people don’t seem to get amplified to the degree their predecessors were.
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Re:X open sourced their latest algorithm
by sanktanglia on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @03:01PM
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You are really going to try and say right wingers aren't amplified on twitter? I literally have an account that just follows gaming accounts and I was having to block people throwing out slurs daily
Re:X open sourced their latest algorithm
by overfeed on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:01PM
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> You are really going to try and say right wingers aren't amplified on twitter?
FWIW, they see it - but interpret it as "Twitter being less biased" now, because from their POv, Twitter had a pro-liberal bias before Musk, and is now trending towards what they consider neutral.
rabidly anti-semitic is not "neutral".
Re:X open sourced their latest algorithm
by wisty on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @03:41PM
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Maybe you're just biased against normal people? According to the last election, most Americans support Trump. You'd expect a certain percent of the general population to be somewhat right-wing and maybe even rudely so - it's not the early 1990s when only people access to the university mainframe that could get online. Since mobile browsers became popular (around 2010?) being able to type with two thumbs is the only real requirement to comment online.
Hearing gamers swear profusely on a daily basis is the experience of anyone who plays a game with chat.