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magus_umbrae

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Sophie@sophiebaybey.bsky.social · 18h ago

Yeah I'm fully behind that message. I think too much focus is put behind what we do or don't engage with. I know what I stand for and support, that doesn't change based on what I have installed on my computer.

Jill Time@imjilltime.bsky.social · 6d ago

today, my final* video for the woops channel goes up! I get to stick around as channel manager, but I hand over main editing duties to my very funny and talented friend Graven. 5 years is a pretty long time, and it was truly an honor to entertain you all for this long. 🫶

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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d ago

I left Twitter in 2023, when I realized that Elon's changes had made the site useless for me. I had a half million followers, but his new algorithm drove my engagement numbers down to nothing. I wasn't actually reaching anyone. I was just providing cover for Nazis. So I left. You can too. Honest!

I haven’t been blind to the steady enshittification of Elon’s Twitter, but I’ve been telling myself that I still had a big platform — just under a half million followers — and the growing strength of misinformation on the platform meant I had a duty to stay and push back against it. Except, as I slowly realized, I don’t have a big platform anymore. Engagement on all my posts is down dramatically under the new system, and a post that would’ve racked up a thousand RTs immediately is now lingering for days with a dozen or so. I think my fellow (former) big accounts there need to realize that we’re experiencing a bit of a phantom limb syndrome. We still have a big number of followers, but they’re not actually seeing what we post and we’re not remotely having the impact that we once did (or at least thought we did). Again, all we’re doing is giving our personal seal of approval and a sense of legitimacy to a place that’s rapidly becoming an alt-right hangout of grifters and grievance artists.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 4d ago

"Musk’s meddling in the site’s algorithm to suppress certain kinds of posts and elevate others is well documented. So if your anti-fascist posts on X are still getting views, it’s either because these posts are so toothless as to escape Musk’s notice, or because they are in fact useful to him."