or mastodon. or threads. or <anme your platform here>... I hate that the short-text social media world got so fragmented. Twitter was the one place i could go to say hi to my neighbors, complain to a company and get recompense, grow my hobbies with friends, ask almost any restaurant "are you open on $holiday?" and just watch the whole world breathe.
It has great support for blocking yes. In fact, there are curated and/or crowdsourced block lists that one can subscribe to so you don’t have to spend as much time doing it yourself. I am sure there’s one that’s suitable for your needs but I don’t have any to recommend
..you can do that?! I've been dreaming of the ability to block certain words and phrases from Twitter. Blue sky is too chaotic for me… I'm OK sticking with Twitter so long as I can block words and phrases.
The site has performed more or less the same after the staff cuts as it did before. I say this as somebody who has used it nearly daily for ten-ish years now. Most users I know have the same experience. Maybe you noticed something if you're parked on Twitter for hours at a time, but I try to limit my exposure to people that do that.
I get that Musk is a dipshit and that there are other problems with the site since the change of ownership, but the griping about stability seems to come from people that don't actually use it.
It's becomming slower and slower over time. Feeds often don't load properly. Refresh only works properly manually since the feed often disconnects. Dragscroll (or whoever it is called when you press a button and you can scroll by dragging the mouse up/down) is broken and results in 100% cpu load and a stalled site until you cancel it. But these are just my annoyances, maybe it's just me. I'm switching it out for alternatives as much as possible anyway.
>griping about stability seems to come from people that don't actually use it.
Imma just say the quiet part out loud that people working in the valley don't like the idea being spread that a lot of big-tech is over bloated with useless hires from the previous tech bubble, and can function with 50% of staff just as well, as that legitimizes more layoffs when every tech CEO sees the results Elon can get by being a strongman.
Granted, Elon mostly fired those useless workers hired by the previous administration for the sake of increasing headcount and diversity to be drinking kombucha and do yoga at work and show investors how much they're growing and how progressive they are, not the ones doing actual engineering, so of course nothing of value was lost and everything functions the same as before, which terrifies workers at other companies knowing they can also be axed without any loss for the company.
This isn't just Elon. Make no mistake, Pichai, Bezos, Nadella, all know this and will not hesitate to pull the "no more Mr nice guy" rug when the line goes down and investors want their pound of flesh. The older workers who lived through the 2009 crash learned this before, the younger generation are learning this now, that all the perks and pampering are only temporary as long as the economy is booming, they don't actually value you.
Such as Bluesky
reply