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I reckon he's just really really fucking short-sited tbh. He seems to forget that there are people on twitter, or were tbh.
Is advertising revenue so important to them they're willing to sacrifice literally everything else for it?
If it's not easy to use reddit, who will use reddit?
Wait. Is twitter still a thing? 😉
I think I get were the “server costs” come from. The twitter algorithm they pushed to GitHub FIRST gets a set of like a thousand tweets to show you, then filters them, getting rid of blocked accounts for example. If you use one of the large block lists, you know, to bypass the lack of moderation, there is the “risk” that they neeed to do another request to get enough content to fill your front page of irrelevant stuff you don’t want to see.
This is fan service for his troglodytes.
Who else would give them such opportunities?
I've blocked every ad I've ever seen on the app. I haven't used it in a while and I doubt I'll ever go back now.
The only thing left that I use it for is getting alerts about live police chases so I can tune in. Ill leave that going until those people move to other platforms.
So…. You just get hit with ad bots all day long?
This is so dumb it must be out of context.
Elon and Trump are fairly unique in that context usually makes it worse.
Days since Musk fucks-up Twitter further: 0
Not that the number was that high anyway U_U
It's unclear if he's distinguishing posts from the users that make them.
Blocking users is important, but posts less so (but I still loved to block posts if they were obnoxious and kept getting shared)
Anything shilly got blocked by me. Including any account that advertises there.