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John's avatar

I think it's interesting that so much of the commentary on quote tweets assumes that they are one thing.

They are actually two things:

The first is a visual representation of a nested tweet.

The second is a list of quote tweets indexed off the original.

I think it's the index that actually drives the pile-on harassment. People love to scroll through a tweet that is heavily quote tweeted and look at all the dunks.

(I think the first is readily available on Mastodon, just choose a client that does it. The second may not be at all?)

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John's avatar

"I don’t see people posting from Mastodon back onto Twitter, but I see plenty when on Mastodon reposting Twitter stuff."

lol, assuming a neutral algorithm

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Charles Arthur's avatar

On Twitter I only use the Following tab and various lists - neither is algorithmic.

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John's avatar

I really don't trust that guy. Maybe I should? But there are a lot of ways to finesse the following tab so it is not exactly algorithmic.

"Twitter appears to have limited the reach of Bellingcat, an investigative news website, as its main account no longer appears in the app's search tool."

It can be mostly algorithmic, with missing impressions for some people in some statistical ratio.

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Suw Charman-Anderson's avatar

So far, I'm finding Bluesky quite nice, if I stay away from the 'What's Hot' feed. I rather like that fact that it's quiet, that I can literally reach the end of what's been posted by my friends, and that the conversation there feels genuine and rather like the early days of Twitter. However, they haven't thought anywhere near hard enough about how they are going to shape the community, so once the velvet rope has been removed, they'll have exactly the same problems as everywhere else.

Btw, I'll let you have my next invite code, if you don't get one before then!

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Charles Arthur's avatar

Please!

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Suw Charman-Anderson's avatar

They aren't releasing them very quickly - I think it'll be about another 10 days before I get my next. They are really throttling growth.

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Charles Arthur's avatar

Smart of them!

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Suw Charman-Anderson's avatar

Certainly reduces the incidence of fail whales.

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