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I think it's great. My feed is people posting tech/AI news, scientific publications, videos of rockets and self-driving cars, things made with coding agents etc

I think it's great. My feed is people posting tech/AI news, scientific publications, videos of rockets and self-driving cars, things made with coding agents etc. It's full of people who do meaningful work as well and you can see who they are. Dark mode, ability to easily copy images, link to posts, see posts of interesting people by going to their profile. On top of that the feed algorithm is open source and actually sane. What else would I want? It's by far the best designed social media site out there. I know it's a low bar but still.

UqWBcuFx6NV4r 12d ago
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- lloydatkinson 12d ago
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  - teiferer 12d ago
    I can concur though. I have a rarely used account and I get Elon on top of the feed all the time. Even as mobile notifications. I don't click on them and scroll past, but they keep coming.
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    - bsoqk 12d ago
      Have you tried blocking him? It’s always seemed an effective strategy to me when I want to stop seeing someone online.
- jasonvorhe 12d ago
  I'm a nostr user first and X is lurk only but I seldomly see anything by or about Musk and so does everyone else I speak to who actually uses it. I suspect this has become more of a meme by Mastodon/Bluesky users than anything real.
  - Hammershaft 12d ago
    I understand you can still tailor a good experience, but if you create a fresh X account the density of Elon Musk posts is genuinely absurd. There's no way he isn't putting his thumb on the algorithm to boost his reach. Also the density of pure hate & ragebait by mask-off fascist accounts! It shocks me how much of that I saw unprompted right away after making a new account recently.
    - TitaRusell 11d ago
      The Dutch PM for some reason uses X (or his PR agents do). There is always a lot of impotent homophobic rage coming from the retweets. It is all very sad. But that's the US first amendment for you.
      - coldpie 11d ago
        The US first amendment has nothing to do with what a private company chooses to host on their platform. That content is there because the users and owners of the platform want it to be there.
        ceejayoz 11d ago
        > The US first amendment has nothing to do with what a private company chooses to host on their platform. The First Amendment (largely) prevents the government from choosing what a private company hosts on their platform for them. A version of X hosted in Germany would look quite different.
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        mitxela 11d ago
        In countries without the first amendment, private companies are required to block nazi content when they see it and ban nazis when they see them.
    - grosswait 11d ago
embedding-shape 11d ago
> On top of that the feed algorithm is open source Do you genuinely believe what is public is exactly what's deployed? If so, what makes that belief justified?
- bluecalm 11d ago
  Why would I doubt it? if you think they are deploying something else then it's quite a claim but it's you who need to show some evidence. It works great anyway. I get a lot of junk I don't want to see on FB/Insta. Reddit is not even worth discussing. X is the only place with where you get a lot of people who work on interesting/important/big stuff and post frequently.

UqWBcuFx6NV4r 12d ago

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lloydatkinson 12d ago
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- teiferer 12d ago
  I can concur though. I have a rarely used account and I get Elon on top of the feed all the time. Even as mobile notifications. I don't click on them and scroll past, but they keep coming.
  - deleted 12d ago
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  - bsoqk 12d ago
    Have you tried blocking him? It’s always seemed an effective strategy to me when I want to stop seeing someone online.
jasonvorhe 12d ago
I'm a nostr user first and X is lurk only but I seldomly see anything by or about Musk and so does everyone else I speak to who actually uses it. I suspect this has become more of a meme by Mastodon/Bluesky users than anything real.
- Hammershaft 12d ago
  I understand you can still tailor a good experience, but if you create a fresh X account the density of Elon Musk posts is genuinely absurd. There's no way he isn't putting his thumb on the algorithm to boost his reach. Also the density of pure hate & ragebait by mask-off fascist accounts! It shocks me how much of that I saw unprompted right away after making a new account recently.
  - TitaRusell 11d ago
    The Dutch PM for some reason uses X (or his PR agents do). There is always a lot of impotent homophobic rage coming from the retweets. It is all very sad. But that's the US first amendment for you.
    - coldpie 11d ago
      The US first amendment has nothing to do with what a private company chooses to host on their platform. That content is there because the users and owners of the platform want it to be there.
      - ceejayoz 11d ago
        > The US first amendment has nothing to do with what a private company chooses to host on their platform. The First Amendment (largely) prevents the government from choosing what a private company hosts on their platform for them. A version of X hosted in Germany would look quite different.
      - deleted 11d ago
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      - mitxela 11d ago
        In countries without the first amendment, private companies are required to block nazi content when they see it and ban nazis when they see them.
  - grosswait 11d ago

embedding-shape 11d ago

> On top of that the feed algorithm is open source Do you genuinely believe what is public is exactly what's deployed? If so, what makes that belief justified?

bluecalm 11d ago
Why would I doubt it? if you think they are deploying something else then it's quite a claim but it's you who need to show some evidence. It works great anyway. I get a lot of junk I don't want to see on FB/Insta. Reddit is not even worth discussing. X is the only place with where you get a lot of people who work on interesting/important/big stuff and post frequently.