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   DM me your love (vib@snug.moe)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2022 21:34:00 JST DM me your love

   this is why Twitter is so bad:
   throw a short opinion and see what happens, get reactions....
   
   no, I don't say I disagree or agree with him but I am just giving an example. I open twitter and first thing I see on the timeline is a blunt bare take on something.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2022 21:33:58 JST SuperDicq

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     @vib@snug.moe I totally agree the timeline should be chronological on all platforms. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. all had chronological timelines initially which slowly disappeared once they started developing algorithms.
     
     Youtube is the only big social platform that still has a chronological timeline on the subscriptions page, but I suspect that to disappear any day now as well.
     
     I personally think there should be regulations in place that force social media platforms to display information in a neutral way, and not favor specific posts over others.
     
     I believe this because a lot of normies do not seem to understand that the timeline is personalized. They often assume that what they see on their timeline is objective and not a distorted view of reality based on an engagement algorithm.
     
     At the very least these companies should be forced to disclose how their algorithm works in detail.

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     DM me your love (vib@snug.moe)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2022 21:33:59 JST DM me your love

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     one thing I don't like about some social media where I can put both Twitter and TikTok is serving small quick gulps of information for quick stimulation, I am too lazy to explain why this is not good but it is not good./

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2022 21:36:10 JST SuperDicq

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     @vib@snug.moe I don't use Twitter but I believe the "Home timeline" is still using algorithms, but just on your own personal bubble, it also throws ads in there.

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     DM me your love (vib@snug.moe)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2022 21:36:11 JST DM me your love

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     • SuperDicq

     @SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo well, yes I agree. Also to make a small correction: Twitter actually has a toggle for showing the "Home timeline" and "Latest tweets", Home being the algorithm backed one

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2022 21:37:23 JST SuperDicq

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     • astatine

     @astatine@bae.st @vib@snug.moe Yeah I remember when subscribe count was the most important statistic for a Youtube channel. Nowadays it means nothing.

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     astatine (astatine@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2022 21:37:24 JST astatine

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     • SuperDicq
     @SuperDicq @vib I could see the YouTube subscription page going away as well. They seem to be deemphasizing it just about every time they update their page or apps.
     
     Twitter can at least be set back to chronological timeline but it defaults to the algorithmic sorted timeline. When I was still using it every third party app kept the chronological timeline by default at least.