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Cancel culture appears to be losing steam
- Thread starter EviLore
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Yes, all of Elon’s posts are signal boosted by the algo to the top of FYP. I’ve noted this several times before as a major complaint with post-Elon Twitter. When he’s posting 100 times per day you can really notice the effects.
You’re ignoring the following page though.
LegendOfKage
Member
There have been multiple accounts pointing out how the numbers and interactions don't add up, the main difference is that Musk is all over her replies. I'm sure you think it's just a coincidence though and really the algorithm just thinks we all need to see Tiffany's comments.
At least you admit it, there's still loads who try and deny Musk has any influence over it. Following us better but those full page Temu ads get annoying, how can an ad tweet be three times the size of normal tweets
Elon’s posts being specially boosted is officially disclosed as part of Elon Twitter’s open source algorithm.At least you admit it, there's still loads who try and deny Musk has any influence over it. Following us better but those full page Temu ads get annoying, how can an ad tweet be three times the size of normal tweets
And yet people still deny it
ManaByte
Gold Member
Which is the exact post that got them banned from Twitter. Proof that BlueSky is just pre-Elon censorship Twitter with a new name.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Is Mississippi Jones gay or not? I saw that rimbow shirt narrative director pic.
mitch1971
Member
What a Weasley thing to do.
belmarduk
Member
No, of course not. He is canonically straight. All this over one person's t-shirt is really grasping at straws.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Trilobit
Member
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
It's the Twitter equivalent of the purple forum.I suppose it's no coincidence that the intials of BlueSky is BS.
FunkMiller
Member
Unknown Soldier
Member
Bluesky is a good thing because all the terminal TDS people have self-deported themselves there and won't be shitting up other social networks anymore
It wont last. These folks will eat each other.
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notseqi
Member
Funny, I don't read twitter and I don't follow a billionaire guy who seemed to do what he liked to do from the off. Maybe get less involved in other peoples lives and care a bit more about their actual output. If you can't finance two rockets landing on their ass without exploding I want to hear less complaints about Elon Musk from you.
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Pegasus Actual
Member
I've got Elon, catturd, the dude who does UFC commentary over worldstar videos, and really the whole bunch followed and I haven't heard jack shit from Tiffany since the 80s.
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Very true. Nobody hates woke more than other woke. It is a purity test that no mere mortal can ever Iive up to.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Tams
Member
Unfortunately it's still going here in the UK.
Just this week we've had an attempt to Gregg Wallace of Masterchef and Inside the Factory fame, for making saucy working-class, middle-aged man jokes that didn’t always hit right. Apparently he made some middle class, middle-aged women feel 'uncomfortable'.
AfricanKing
Member
That not cancel culture… that’s an old man being a creepy perv and getting told to fuck off
ManaByte
Gold Member
BlueSky has been bragging about the "millions" of new users since the election, but I honestly believe a vast majority of that is bots. The open-source nature of the platform is a nightmare for bots and honestly they're going to be worse there than they've ever been on Twitter or elsewhere.
Tams
Member
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It absolutely is cancel culture. They want him gone from telly just because he made some crude jokes and puns.
Sex jokes aren't creepy or pervy unless you are a complete prude.
He's being treated like he tried cop a feel or take a quick peek, and only at women. Which, as far as I know, is not the case.
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As long as I can keep my feed curated without manipulation then it shouldn't be an issue, not like Twitter is free from bots, if anything it got worse under Musk despite that being one of his promises.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Sure. They don’t manipulate the Following feed.
The Discovery feed on BS is pedos, furrys, mental patients, and blatant assassination threats.
Mine isn't, as I said multiple times before, it just shows things related to what I've curated.
BlackTron
Member
BUT siLeNCe iS vIoLenCe
With science, tech, and video games selected as interests, and not following anyone, this is the BlueSky discover feed:
Which is weird because I don't get any of that. Is it a country thing? Right now if I glance at mine I've got something about Copenhagen architecture, climate change, CRT findings from the past week, etc. Lot of emulator stuff too.With science, tech, and video games selected as interests, and not following anyone, this is the BlueSky discover feed:
I'm just not a fan of this thinly veiled attack trying to insinuate anyone using BlueSky is a pedo, notice how that's always the first thing mentioned? It reminds of a certain other place that tried the same shit by saying GAF is an alt right hellhole and anyone using it must be fine with that. I thought we were better than that.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
I just don't use Discovery or FYP on Twitter or BlueSky
I do use it on TikTok and it's usually things I already like like comedy sketches, martial arts, movie and TV influencers (it's how I found Strawhat Goofy), etc.
I have grown to hate politics though I hope there's cease-fire in all the hotbeds of the world.
I do use it on TikTok and it's usually things I already like like comedy sketches, martial arts, movie and TV influencers (it's how I found Strawhat Goofy), etc.
I have grown to hate politics though I hope there's cease-fire in all the hotbeds of the world.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I don’t have a bluesky account but I checked it out for the first time on my phone now.
I get a random mix of stuff…. Some maga are incel posts, Black Friday deals, a post with pic of a fox, another pic of a cat in a store window, something about gladiator 2 and some other people talking movies like Charlie Brown and scary movie.
So a quick skim of maybe 10 or so posts on the home page and only a couple had to do with anti-right wing posts.
I get a random mix of stuff…. Some maga are incel posts, Black Friday deals, a post with pic of a fox, another pic of a cat in a store window, something about gladiator 2 and some other people talking movies like Charlie Brown and scary movie.
So a quick skim of maybe 10 or so posts on the home page and only a couple had to do with anti-right wing posts.
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ManaByte
Gold Member
When mental illness writes your algorithm.With science, tech, and video games selected as interests, and not following anyone, this is the BlueSky discover feed:
This post was auto-blocked and hidden on BlueSky. More aggressive than Twitter was at its most extreme levels of control.
They have every right to run their platform this way, of course, but I would not expect it to become a broad-based town hall if they require absolute conformity on highly divisive issues.
ManaByte
Gold Member
I was just thinking this morning how you’re not going to see handles on news or sporting events. They’re basically URLs and not just a @ like on X.
This post was auto-blocked and hidden on BlueSky. More aggressive than Twitter was at its most extreme levels of control.
They have every right to run their platform this way, of course, but I would not expect it to become a broad-based town hall if they require absolute conformity on highly divisive issues.
And I'd happily return to Twitter once it stops being obviously manipulated in Elon & Pals favour, what Musk stated when he took over Twitter sounded good, but his execution has been trash, it's still biased, just biased in his favour. Once I can go back to my feeds and NOT see any forced political/culture war/Elon stuff then I'd happily use it again.
edit: And just to mention since we seem to going around in a loop here with you and
ManaByte
, yes it sucks that for you guys you're getting that culture war shit on BlueSky, but I can only comment on what I get, which is none of that and you've even got other members above mentioning what their Discovery feeds contain too which is nowhere near aggressive compared to what you two seems to be getting but can we be adults about this and not accuse anyone who uses BlueSky of being a pedo/a pedo supporter? That's just bullshit extremism on the other foot. If we listen to what extremist say then I'm alt-right for being on GAF and also far left for being on BlueSky, shit doesn't make sense 
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Kraz
Member
I just signed up yesterday to check it out. The filter to show less of selected content seems to work really well. For example, pet pictures, it seems to recognize those and keep them from showing up.
Haven't had a chance to try the 'show me more of this content' button. If it works as well then it would definitely bring more of the selected content.
I haven't had a chance to see if there are issues with my controversial opinions, but I also won't be going looking for accounts that would obviously react negatively to impose them on to play a victim over when they respond.
The site's been easier to browse than X, even without an account, like Twitter was before it sinked. Could use some sort of immediately visible indicator for verified accounts, like the old blue check.
They seem to be setting things up to meet advertising standards.
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I have not said that.
ManaByte
Gold Member
No one has said it.
You specifically keep mentioning that BlueSky is pushing pedo and furry shit over and over again, it's starting to feel implied that you want people to associate BlueSky with pedos and thus the users are either pedos or cool with pedos.
Considering we're on a forum that for years faced the same slander from other places "Oh NeoGAF just pushes Alt-Right news" you'd think we'd be better about how to handle this and not blanket implication.
Fake
Member
This post was auto-blocked and hidden on BlueSky. More aggressive than Twitter was at its most extreme levels of control.
They have every right to run their platform this way, of course, but I would not expect it to become a broad-based town hall if they require absolute conformity on highly divisive issues.
Imagine blocking the true. What a wonderful bubble to live.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Because it’s a problem on the platform a BS even admitted to it:
When the site’s safety team is specifically saying they’re having to remove pedo content, it has a problem.
This contradicts what you're implying though that BlueSky is the platform for pedos by posting a message from BlueSky saying it's prioritising taking down said content and banning the users?
Nok Su Kow
Member
Mine is the same and I'm not even American! I'm like what do you want me to do about Trump?With science, tech, and video games selected as interests, and not following anyone, this is the BlueSky discover feed:
I've clicked the don't show me stuff like this button about a million times
BigDeadFreak
Member
Women say stuff like that on TV all the time and don't get told to fuck off.
Tells you where the real privilege is.
Though ultimately its men holding the purse strings, and thus the decision making power, of virtually ALL media, so we are basically doing it to ourselves (which tells you that the brouhaha over this crap does generate $$$ somehow).
The company involved is the BBC, they just showed an antiques program 40 minutes ago with a male and female presenting team, the woman got so excited she gave her co-worker an unsolicited kiss. No one will be reporting her or making a fuss.