Almost every day I am unable to load tweet images, unable to load threads, unable to load a person’s tweets. For a few days now I haven’t been able to refresh the main timeline. All in the official app.
I’ve accepted this as the new normal for someone like me who will never pay for a subscription to just read a few tweets.
The quick enshittification of Twitter curbs my social media use so I guess that’s one good outcome.
I routinely get outages. Then I go to HN to see if anyone has the same problem, but there's nothing. I imagine people have experienced 'outage fatigue' with Twitter. It's the new normal now.
Well the speed bumps are more magnified these days to craft a narrative of 'broken Twitter' in the news. Instagram allegedly had an 'outage' [0] but of course it is ignored as it doesn't fit the current narrative; thus is not magnified.
GitHub for example, goes down more times than both Twitter and Instagram, every month and somehow that is acceptable and not a sign of GitHub slowly falling apart.
I bet that as soon as GitHub goes down, we will see the same old complaints about it on HN and when it comes back up, it will be accepted and forgotten about. Rinse and repeat.
It was initially weird, not having any algorithm to feed me content, but after finding people you want to follow, it's a great platform!
I just saw a post about how "Mastodon is for what you love, not what you hate", and I think that's the reason it feels so refreshing to me, instead of Twitter.
Just like any other open source project, they always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Its cool that techies have adopted Mastodon but normies have moved on or could never figure out the weird(to them) way in how it works.
Shannon Morse had something to say about this phenomenon a while back. She noticed that her stress levels went down after all the techies left and she did not join them(because there is no promotion she could really do on a niche platform and she is in the business of promotion). I 100% concur with her. Those people that complain about everything, living in a tech bubble and just generally raise your unhappiness level, they are all on Mastodon now. So "Task Failed Successfully" I guess?
Agreed. There is still gold there but now you have to dig through a mound of excrement to get to it. The less time I spend there the better. I just quick link to my favorite people, read their updates and then get off. I'm missing out on a lot of additional good stuff but I am tired of digging through cruft to see it.
And that's the worst part about it. Twitter required an investment to make it a great place to be. And I had spent time curating who I was following and such to the point where Twitter was a good place for me to be.
I spend a lot of time collecting vintage computers and am interested in programming and technology in general. And I was really enjoying the time I spent there maybe an hour or three per week.
But I rarely ever log in any more. The stupid belligerent idiots have really taken over the place. Though I guess that can describe more than just twitter any more.
Ha! Are you me? Because I also collect and restore vintage computers (almost to the point of hoarding). As i'm typing this, my NABU computer just arrived today ha ha.
>But I rarely ever log in any more. The stupid belligerent idiots have really taken over the place. Though I guess that can describe more than just twitter any more.
Too true. I wonder what the end state will end up being, both on Twitter and in society in general. Where do you think we are going?
I have this nagging feeling that in some ways they are not as large of a group as they want people to think. I saw the results of the midterms and how the worst of the worst just got utterly destroyed at the polls and it made me think that the greater society is rational and is looking for solution to real life problems and not this nonsense we see in life and on Twitter. I guess 2024's US election will be a real test.
I have commodores, TRS-80s, Apples, Macs, SparcStations, IBMs and more (so many more). But moreso, I have drive emulators and modern display adapters for so many of them.
I just picked up an IMSAI 8080 with the self-promise to stop collecting for a year. There is one more item, that if it even appears on ebay I will snag it. But I'm full up.
> Where do you think we are going?
My biggest fear is the post-trust world. With AI taking over, people will no longer be able to trust anything they see. And we saw with Jan6 what happens when malleable people lose trust in institutions. I think that's the reality we're going to end up with.
And yeah, they are a minority. But they are a dangerous minority. And it's no longer just America we need to worry about.
I generally find it a waste of time since it has nothing to do with difference of opinion. It's the anti-woke/culture war mob who makes up opinions that you supposedly have and then expects you to waste your time refuting an opinion you never had.
You'd get more intelligent debate with a monkey at the zoo and probably considerably less shit flung in your face.
Social media should not be exclusively about views, it should be about finding people with common interests to improve your skills and knowledge in that topic and perhaps one day do stuff in the real world with the circle of people who have your same common interest.
Twitter has always been a boxing ring more than a townsquare, and even more since Musk acquisition.
If that is the state of affairs I'd rather step in a real ring, win or lose you'll feel something more intense than winning/losing an argument on Twitter.
Okay, you've insulted everybody you've disagreed with as "Orwellian", claimed the bots are gone which is hilariously false, and claimed that Musk cleared out the CSAM which no he has not:
Almost every day I am unable to load tweet images, unable to load threads, unable to load a person’s tweets. For a few days now I haven’t been able to refresh the main timeline. All in the official app.
I’ve accepted this as the new normal for someone like me who will never pay for a subscription to just read a few tweets.
The quick enshittification of Twitter curbs my social media use so I guess that’s one good outcome.