stylo

the 'girl of steel'

  • she/her

trans dyke, 32, jazz musician, counter strike, maybe some other stuff idk

vgm ep @ bandcamp.com/stylo-v


last.fm listening
musicboard album ratings
a spinning estradiol vial with the text 'powered by estrogen'


ValerieElysee
@ValerieElysee
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atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

did ANYONE think it was a good idea to have your "Likes" visible to everyone else on the site at all times in a dedicated tab?

how the fuck did they then go on to make it so that liking a tweet stochastically shoves it into some of your followers' timelines, in a way you have no control over?!

Who invented that? Who thought it was a good idea not just to have, but to actively make worse? Why did we put up with it???


Ackart
@Ackart

one of my top three favorite things about this site is that I can like whatever the fuck I want and the site isn't gonna go advertise it to all my followers


xkeeper
@xkeeper
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stylo
@stylo

it's genuinely a weird feeling to check my notifications and there's no fake "you might like..." notifications in there. I feel like a traumatized dog flinching at shadows or something.


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in reply to @ValerieElysee's post:

in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

I remember when G+ introduced the same "feature" of showing +1's to all your followers, but at least they had an option to turn it off (albeit buried deep in an obscure section of the preferences.) I shut that off as quickly as I could.

When they rolled this feature out, it was treated as a boon for people like me - people who had a tiny number of follows who nonetheless kept checking for regular updates. I get that, in that if you have a user base who are pressing the 'GIMME MORE CONTENT' button, you want to look for ways to meet that demand, and the hypothetical structure that 'if you like these people you might like what they like' follows from that, but it also betrays a vision of these users that they are (for example) behaving 'rationally.' Which I know I wasn't. I was checking for new content every five seconds on a bus trip because I was bored and trying to not feel carsick AND afraid I was going to miss a sign one of my friends was having an emotional breakdown and needed me.

As a response to this system, I did not start spreading my follows or liking more content to spread it to my followers in a similar situation - I stopped using the like button at all.

God it's the worst. "How many people will have this tweet shoved on them if I like it" was a fun game.

This whole thing was especially fun when there was that bug that showed a like on a quote tweet as if it were on the original tweet, which could make you or your friends look like assholes for liking some awful thing when they had actually liked the exact opposite of that thing, and you had no way of knowing!

oh yeah. it enabled people to have these weird, oblique conversations that were more or less aimed at fans: you could pester someone repeatedly, having a "conversation" in the form of quote-tweets--stepping to one side, you could say, and inviting your fans to crap all over the person you were having this fakey "conversation" with ~Chara