boosting content from Twitter Blue subscribers is a catastrophic idea
Twitter Blue subscribers are more likely to be Elon Musk fanboys, crypto conmen, etc.
They are an easily-fooled, low-information demographic and will disproportionately produce low-quality content / disinformation
this asinine thread we were linked to has actually given us some clarity:
twitter is the new facebook - it's a platform for gullible boomers with Twitter Blue subscriptions to convince other gullible boomers of the qanon-esque conspiracy du jour
that is a core reason why modern day twitter sucks ass through a garden hose
i wonder if the people who didn't leave twitter realize how jarring the degeneration of the site looks from the perspective of people who did
the site was always a shithole, don't get me wrong, but it's exponentially more of a shithole now. moderation is basically asleep at the wheel now that apartheid diamond man has whittled the staff down to a skeleton crew, which combined with the algorithm changes designed to skullfuck your feed with low-quality rage-provoking engagement-bait makes the site a conveyor belt of obnoxious content no one asked for
every time we have to check twitter for something after not using the site frequently for a while, it feels more and more....off?
they push Elon's tweets and all sorts of other low-effort worthless shit content SUPER hard now. They've really wrestled control of your timeline even further away from users to a fucking comical level.
