Oh, the ratio
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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The whole “competition” on social networking is why the internet sucks
I see the problem as there is too many 'normies' on the internet so things have devolved into catering to the lowest common denominator resulting in basic sites, simplistic everything and copy/paste designs.
Things are always better before the mass of humans flood to use it. This was true for vacations, vehicles, computers, internet, cellphones etc..
As someone who has never used twitter what di you mean?
To be “ratio’d” or to note a ratio in regards to Twitter means that the reply received more likes/retweets than the original or higher up tweet.
To add to that. The reason this is noted is that Twitter only has upvotes and no downvotes. So, something could have hundreds of likes, which looks good, but when compared to a reply against it with thousands you can see the meassure of public disagreement.
Yeah, but generally people like what has lots of likes because that's what appears to be the thing to like so they like it.
Like all those times you see some idiot upvoted or someone inexplicably downvoted. Once the herd starts stampeding, whether toward a cliff or a greeny pasture, it won't stop.
I thought that meant that a comment got more replies than likes
This. To my understanding, "ratio" has always been replies and QRTs vs likes and RTs. The madder people are, the more they want to say.
I definitely see more people ratioed by my definition than the other; when a ton of replies happen, it's harder for a single one to get enough traction to overtake the OP, but you can still see that everyone is mad.
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I never fully got it as a twitter user, but it has something to do with the ratio of likes I believe. The one person has hundreds where the other has 10s of thousands.
And they always respond with something like “I only bought it because I had money to waste”. Bullshit, you wanted the attention.
As someone who literally shits gold, not even I pay for twitter! (It's a real condition I swear)
Call your doctor, here is his phone number: 555-1234Honytawk
I will answer wearing a moustache.
You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel.
Unless you eat that much gold, you either have a supernova in your stomach or are violating the laws of thermodynamics
You're not a thermodynamics cop are ya?
Shit on me daddy
How many shits do you have to take to buy a case of beer?
The rule surrounding blocking usernames is so dumb and short-sighted. You can literally find these people just by searching for the tweets.
It’s slightly harder and requires too much brain capacity for the average dumbass harasser.
I just uninstalled twitter.
Really happy that I made the move to Bluesky. Really gives me a similar vibe to when I switched from reddit to lemmy. Everything's smaller, people are nice, not a lot of drama.. at least for now. We'll see how things change when the beta ends and more people start coming there.
I got my invite code yesterday. There’s a LOT of furries and not a lot of stuff I’m interested in.
Haha yeah, the furries seem to love it for some reason. I don't know about other countries, but it feels like at least the core of my German bubble collectively moved there over the last couple of weeks. If you're looking for specific topics, celebrities or experts, it will definitely take a lot of time to build a new network that can compete with Twitter. Had high hopes in Mastodon for a while, everyone who was fed up with Elon moved there for like two weeks, and then it all fell apart.
Tbh I wasn’t ever really a proper user myself, but I’m a big tennis fan and there’s so much tennis info that is only posted to Twitter that it’s hard to stop using it entirely. I’ve never just browsed it for fun/out of boredom though so at least I don’t tend to come across the nastier side of Twitter. Small mercies!
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I haven't updated the Twitter app on my Android since the icon change, and I refuse to let it update. Still works fine.
I learned something new today! I didn't know you could change apps on Android and now I feel a bit silly.
This is shortcuts on iOS, it has a few limitations like no notification badges
“no notification badges”
hell that’s a feature!
For what it’s worth, you can turn that off for any app without going through the hassle of setting up a shortcut. It’s in the Notification settings for each app.
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No notifications, and a banner popover when you run it, which some people will find annoying
It’s an easy way to get started with your first shortcut though!
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Lots of Android launchers let you freely customize icons
And names, I always rename those "My Company" apps to just "Company" so I can find them back in the list. That "My ..." stuff is so annoying.
Sweet idea, I can't believe I've never thought of it before!
My Cabages!
You can always install an earlier .APK. Find, download, open. And hope it wasn't something someone riddled with malware.
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