The sorry state of social media

A good post by SelfAwarePatterns. As with Facebook, and Instagram, you don’t get to control what you see, and it’s tough to have reliable feed with updates from people you actually follow.

The only feed is an algorithmic one, which frankly is pretty awful. Even after following more than a dozen people, the feed insists on shoving posts (threads?) from sports, music, and reality show stars at me, along with the occasional politician. Gross. Finding posts from the people I’m actually following is hit or mess, mostly miss. The easiest way to find the posts I care about seems to be digging into the settings and accessing the profiles I’m following directly, which is painful.

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8 responses to “The sorry state of social media”

  1. Elizabeth Tai Avatar

    Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️: @liztai I had alreafy replaced mine with my mastodon feed. 😉 via wandering.shop

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    Mackaj: @liztai One side effect of removing anonymous logins is it makes reading a tweet impossible where someone blocks with a parting comment. Unless you have access to a spare account, blocks become actually effective.Oh and if this was a typo ..”Finding posts from the people I’m actually following is hit or mess, mostly miss”.. then I think you should leave it, as its both funny and probably accurate too 😄 via mastodon.me.uk

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    Elizabeth Tai :verified:: @mackaj haha it’s not my post, it’s a reblog, but I think it’s accurate too lol via hachyderm.io

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    Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle: @liztai Thanks! I sort of have this site with a Twitter feed widget on the sidebar, and I was almost believing it would continue working, but it stopped working now, too. via mastodon.social

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