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hard pass from me dawg.

auxio said:

blastdoor said:

Twitter has proven amazingly resilient in the face of its malignant owner. I almost never go there anymore but clearly plenty of people do. My hope is that everyone who isn’t a musk fan will leave, but I’m afraid that hope might never be realized .

The vast majority of Twitter accounts these days are for business, which includes influencers and other self promoters. Between those and bot accounts to pad numbers/harvest data, there isn't much genuine human interest in the platform.

I'll be sure to tell all of my friends that our interest in using it is insincere.

sflocal said:

I deleted my TikTok account months ago, and even then was only a TikTok user for about a year prior.

It was a cesspool of misinformation and toxic to a degree that it started affecting my mental health.  It brings out the ugliness of people. 

While I’m not necessarily a fan of government oversight, I believe the CCP definitely has an agenda with messing with the brains of those users.  The CEO is full of BS. 

I've found it to be the exact opposite. With that said, the videos you get shown by the algorithm are chosen based on the accounts you follow, the videos you've liked and commented, and also videos you watch. If you watch and interact with negative posts, you're going to get shown more of them. I guess I just watch wholesome content and do my best to ignore the toxic stuff when it comes up 🤷

arthurba said:

My (limited) understanding of this is that they were using the old 'version 1' Twitter API which Twitter had told people not to use for quite some time.
Now I believe these app developers did complain that the 'version 2' api was a step backwards in their view, but twitters policy of using api2 did jot change. On top of that, these apps didn't display ads (the thing that pays for Twitter).  All of this was pre-Elon. 

Tweetbot was using the v2 API since it was rolled out. I would assume Twitterific and most of the other similar apps were doing the same, certainly by January of 2023.

As for ads not displaying, that was on Twitter and what they included in their API, not the apps. If Elon really wanted that ad money, he could have put the ads into the API feed for Tweetbot/etc., but that's not what he in his """""infinite wisdom""""" decided to do.

retrogusto said:

Breaking news: Reuters is reporting that the iPhone 14 Pro will use the A15 chip rather than the A16 Bionic as previously claimed.

https://stocks.apple.com/ApGhyJsmST0mBVVhSFcBYwA

(Obviously an error, but weird that someone who thought themselves qualified to report on this would go out of their way to state it.)

That article doesn't say that at all. The closest thing I can find is "The current iPhone model has an A15 processor chip and in the recent Apple launch event, the company said iPhone 14 Pro models will come with the A16 chip," which is the opposite.