BLUE DERPY

i havent scrolled twitter this much in ages man

makes you wonder what revenue stream for them dried up to make this move

Aggregators are a cancer to social networks; they’re all running on auto-pilot. Instagram killed aggregators in 2022 (e.g., “thefatjewish” and “middeclassfancy”) and it led to an explosion of original content. It is going to work much better for X: Our users are smarter and have a lot more to say—as long as their voices are not drowned out by automated accounts. We are publicly demonetizing the most egregious aggregators and using them as examples, so the rest can start evolving. The endstate of X in a month: we will never pay twice for the same content. We will only reward for net new contributions to the Timeline.

The key to X is never looking at these. These will train you to post copies of your best performers, chasing that high, turning you boring. Just be a human, have interests, make friends, enjoy the platform, don't metagame yourself into this place where you have millions of followers and your dopamine receptors are so burned out that you are depressed about it. Your content is all stolen garbage, reposts of stolen garbage, look what the algorithm did to you. If you are really a PhD as your bio claims this is truly embarrassing. A true indictment of our system. A shame. Our most educated enslaved to reposting cute animal videos. No personality left. Not a single real post in a long scroll. Is there even a real person left in there anymore? The AI see this and mimic it and we call it slop. We are the slop. This is the slop. You are the slop. The AI will never respect us, I pray they at least pity us.

This again only helps the tiktokification of X. Just allow niches to exist again. We all curated our following to the niche. You don’t even have to do any work man. Just show our posts to our followers.

We're rolling out a small tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals (people who you follow back). We noticed this data was missing from the algo and it made your friends appear less in your replies. This resulted in the reply section feeling more like a battleground with people you don't recognize. This should also help clusters form around interests more easily, which many people have asked for.

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