The most consequential change in recent years has been to pay users for posting controversial content. For me that killed the service. Anything else is secondary.
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Shows how valuable the Play Store is to them
Twitter is 100% better now than a year ago. For one, I haven't gotten a single bullshit click-farm fake-ass sock-puppet follower in months. Secondly, I see very few low-effort reply guys lately, human or otherwise.
bigyabai•50m ago
A little cocky.
gota•26m ago
It beats shouting from your window in reach and carrier pigeons in needing less birdfeed, though.
unsupp0rted•23m ago
None of those let a random person Hawk Tuah their way to reaching millions. Seriously: x disintermediates and offers distribution in a way no other communication tech does.
Granted you can always post a blog or whatever, but X's ambition to be the "town square" is a valid one and it does achieve it in notable ways, even if there's still 100 years worth of improvement needed.
bigyabai•18m ago
I take it you didn't watch much daytime television? Or YouTube?
X is not designed or moderated in a reputable, accountable or unbiased fashion - and neither was Twitter. X's ambition to be a "town square" is a solipsistic delusion that even Dorsey managed to avoid (despite all the mistakes he did make).
100 years worth of improvement isn't enough, X's centralized design is inherently abusive and many communities have already moved on. As Terry Davis would have put it, X glows.
blokey•16m ago
If the town itself is an aids-ridden, nazi infested bunch of child-porn-creating yobs.
They can keep that town and its square. I'd nuke it from orbit, only way to be sure.
mindslight•8m ago
Onlyfans was included in "almost every single aspect of the internet".
dgellow•4m ago