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J-Linebeck
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ireneista
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oh, very much agreed

we elaborated on this a bit in our post on Twitter and feelings a while back

the people actually doing the work probably don't think of it this way - they think of themselves as following best practices in UX design - but it is absolutely correct to say that Twitter's development process includes psychological experiments intended to produce addiction. except they call the metrics they optimize for things like "engagement", and the deployment framework makes randomized controlled trials so easy to do that they aren't even called that, they're just called A/B tests. they're not even done by people with a background in psychology, which also means there's no professional ethical obligations...


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in reply to @J-Linebeck's post:

this is (hopefully?) one of thing thats cohost’s design can curb. there isnt as much reward for Stupid Bullshit on this site, so i dont do it as much. it means the site is less spontaneous, but it also means i dont feel a need to make a Joke or Take to every post i see and it means that the Jokes i do make are both funnier and the Takes i do have are more well-thought-out.

in reply to @astral's post:

I had the opposite problem, the algorithm decided to stop giving my tweets attention even though I was emulating viral tweets and it felt like shit being alone on an enormous chattery website. And I STILL kept coming back because SOMETIMES it worked.

I come to Cohost and the amount of attention my chosts get directly correlates to how much talent went into making them, or how funny or witty or insightful I was. Or if eggbug is in it.

but where else am i gonna be reminded it's out of touch thursday?

frankly, twitter makes me think of some sort of non-euclidean irc, everyone is in the same channel, yet because of time and space constraints, you only get stuff from your immediate bubble and stuff from far away gets filtered by this.... or something like that.

while eggscrolling cohost gives off a hint of eudaimonia, doomscrolling twitter felt more like looking for a clean spot on a roll of partly used reusable toiletpaper... ok, im being harsh. but there was just so much shit....

in reply to @ireneista's post:

"I will always maintain that one of the worst things Twitter ever did was convince a large number of people that they were funny or smart. "

Just to make sure I'm not taking an unintended inference here, are you saying the natural conclusion is that in fact, most people aren't funny or smart?

(this question wasn't addressed to us but we wish to note that we have no strong position on that proposition, taken literally and precisely. it's more the act of persuasion that we find upsetting, we would probably describe the thing people are being persuaded of slightly differently.)