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I sent an AI agent swarm to read the X algo source code. What they found shocks and confuses me. First, I want to be clear about why I'm posting this. Four years on this platform. 60,000+ followers. I've shown up every day since I started. And over the last three months, I've watched my reach drop 40%+, off a cliff, and I haven't changed ANYTHING; I am extremely consistent, disciplined, and focused on what I do and how I do it. What bothers me in addition to my own numbers is that Artists I used to see constantly, I never see anymore. People that I look forward to seeing what they're creating... one day they disappear from my feed. I assume they left. Nope, still here. Still posting. Multiple times a day. Just completely invisible to me now. And presumably me to them. This is happening to a lot of us. I've tried to figure out why and how to fix it. Post more. Post less. Different times. Everything has hurt my account. I'm frustrated, tired, and tbh, straight up losing interest. So... I had my AI agent, Mai, spin up a research swarm last night; a multitude of specialized sub-agents pointed at every line of X's open-source algorithm. Every file. Every filter. Every module they've made public. Literally. I wanted to know exactly how to see this from the perspective of a creative here, from an artist, and not from a content consumer which is what literally every other post about the algo is focused on. What follows is what they found. ///// ⭕️ TLDR; 5 things we all should be aware of: 1. Our follower count does nothing for our reach anymore. 2. The algorithm decides how many people see our posts based on a PREDICTION, before anyone has seen it. 3. Posting too much hurts us. Posting too little also hurts us. (Really) 4. Every time we repost another artist's work, the algorithm buries it. 5. Our posts are gone from the system after 48 hours. Nothing from 3 days ago is being shown to anyone. You start from zero every 48 hours. ///// ⏬ Going deeper on those 5... 1. Your Follower Count is just a Display Number Buried in the codebase: "author_followers_count" is pulled through a service called "Gizmoduck" and passed to the tweet entity service for display only. Not fed into any scorer. Anywhere in the system. 100,000 followers. 1000 followers. Same starting point in "Phoenix", the new system. Years building an audience on this platform? That audience, as a signal to the algorithm, is worth nothing now apparently. What travels with your posts is PREDICTED engagement, a score based on your content and historical signals, regardless of how many people chose to follow you. _ 2. "The Prediction Trap" This is the one that actually broke my brain. Before your post reaches anyone, "Phoenix" scores it across 19 "prediction heads"; 19 different things it's trying to predict about how people will behave. Let me repeat. ❗️THE ALGO IS PREDICTING HOW MUCH ENGAGEMENT YOU WILL GET, AND ASSIGNS REACH BASED ON IT.❗️ WHICH IS A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY! Some of the 19 metrics: favorite_score — will someone like this reply_score — will someone reply dwell_score — will someone pause on it (binary) dwell_time — how long will they pause (continuous, two separate signals) photo_expand_score — will someone expand the image not_interested / report — negative signals The prediction determines reach... It actually decides if the post will get reach, by predicting... reach? how does this make any sense. It's not determined by merit of the post. It's determined by wether or not the algo thinks it will get reach, thus giving it reach. Phoenix PREDICTS low engagement. Shows the post to fewer people. Fewer people means fewer chances for engagement. Prediction validates itself. Post gets suppressed. + Phoenix PREDICTS high engagement. Bigger distribution. More chances. Prediction validates itself. Post gets pushed further. The prediction drives distribution. Content quality is secondary. And the prediction is built on your account's recent historical signals. If your reach has been declining, Phoenix is PREDICTING it will keep declining, AND actively making that happen by restricting your distribution. ie; A great piece posted on an account with declining engagement gets a small test group, underperforms in that group, gets confirmed as low-value. Even if it's the best thing they've ever made. The algorithm creates the outcome it predicted. And for anyone who's been in a decline, getting out requires overcoming a system that's actively betting against you. _ 3. "The Volume Trap" "AuthorDiversityScorer" applies exponential decay every time you appear in the same follower's feed session. Each additional post from you in a single session scores lower than the last. - Post at 9am, noon, 7pm. - A follower opens X at noon. - They see your midday post. - Your 9am post, still alive, is now decayed because you already appeared in their session. - Your 7pm post decays further. ❗️The more you post, the less each post reaches. So you post less... Impressions drop anyway, because low activity reads as a dormant account. The "per-author" caps governing this are redacted from the public code. Post too much = decay. Post too little = dormancy. The band where things work is narrow, undisclosed, and different for every account. This is absolutely absurd. And impossible for people to navigate. _ 4. The New Repost Penalty April 12, 2026. X announced a crackdown on aggregators. Reposts of other people's work: up to 90% impression deduction. On that specific repost. To be clear: NOT on your account. On each individual original post. Lots of mis-info out about this. Every time you share another artist's work because you believed in it, because community means showing up for each other... The algorithm buried it. 90% visibility cut. Gone. BUT Self-reposting your own work is different. X uses a "Bloom filter" that resets at the end of each session. "RetweetDeduplicationFilter" only drops self-reposts for followers who already saw the original in that same session. A follower opening the app at midnight hasn't seen your morning post in their current session. It reaches them fresh. The rule: sharing someone else's work = buried. Sharing your own = viable. _ 5. 48 Hours and... It's GONE. "Thunder" is X's in-memory post store. It auto-trims every 2 minutes. Retention window: 48 hours. After 48 hours your post is gone from the candidate pool. The algorithm can't serve it to anyone. The idea that consistent posting lets your older content keep circulating is wrong at the architecture level. You're starting from zero every two days. Thunder also maintains per-author caps on how many of your posts can be in the candidate pool at once. Those values are redacted. ///// 🫠 How our habits are hurting us: For years the advice was: show up every day, post on a schedule, build the habit. The accounts that did that built audiences. That consistency was proof of commitment. The "AuthorDiversityScorer" punishes it. The daily schedule that built your following now means your posts are competing with each other instead of adding value. The disciplined consistency the old platform rewarded is now what triggers exponential decay under the new one. Let that sink in❗️ The platform changed the rules. The habits we built under the old rules are working against us under the new ones. And no one said anything about it. /// 📤 A Note about/to Nikita & the X Team: Nikita Bier and the algo team at X are building for consumers. The changes make sense from that angle: algorithmic feeds, crackdowns on low-quality reposts, pushing formats that generate comments and replies. If your goal is to show the people scrolling a better experience, this logic tracks. That might even be the right goal. I could argue that with a certain perspective. However... there's a side of the equation they're seemingly not accounting for: the creators who supply the content that makes the platform worth scrolling in the first place. For artists specifically, this has been a demolition job. The art was always supposed to be the value. That's what we spent years building. That's what the audiences came for. The current algorithm doesn't reward that natively anymore. It rewards high comment probability. The result is people like me spinning up AI agent swarms to read source code just to understand why our reach is gone. Creators running diagnostics on a platform they used to just create on... is ridiculous. I don't think this is the intent. But it's the outcome regardless. You can optimize the consumption experience all you want. If the people making things stop showing up because the game is too rigged, there's nothing left to consume. The creator side of the algorithm needs a voice in these decisions. Right now it doesn't have one. //// I sent agents to read the code because I was tired of not knowing the rules. Tired of watching reach disappear. Tired of looking for accounts I used to see every day and finding out they're still there, still creating, just invisible. Understanding all this doesn't fix anything, ironically. But at least now I know what I'm working with. They built the algo well. Just not for us. It's built for the masses, engagement farming, rage baiting, fear baiting, and overall 2026 end-of-days pvp slop and brain rotted doom scrollers. I don't know what else to tell you, or how to operate with any of this, and trust me, I get how insane and confusing a lot of this is. It numbing. Tiring.. and just.. Idk. Regardless, I hope this helps in whatever way it can. -BLAC _ Attached: 1 - screenshot of my death spiral analytics 2 - Summary report on agent swarm findings 3 - the prediction trap, visualized 4 - snippets from the public X algo repo with notes

@DaddyWarpig This is such a bizarre and stupid thought experiment. Red is obviously superior. If someone tells me that THEY are playing a game where they are going to MAYBE kill people who press blue, my response is to avoid blue. I'm not participating in this game, go away.

If everybody presses the Red, everybody survives. If more than 50% press the Blue, everybody survives. No matter what, it's better to press the Red. YOU ARE ONLY MORALLY CULPABLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS.(Not quite, but in this specific case, yes.) The deaths are the responsibility of the person doing the killing.

@elvenmaidinn Never forget what Disney stole from us.

Aaaaaaand he blocked comments 🤣🤣🤣 find one my post where I blocked comment. Oy! No! I KNOW how to do it, you don't need to mean.... Anyway where I was.... "pull up nerdy glasses" Akhem! Have Balls to defend your claim, no wonder The Acolyte was cancelled and will never be brought back if people are unable to stand for their hobbies. But this is how you spot Tourists. You want your message to be stronger? Wear fucken Star Wars Cosplay like true Star Wars Fan, put fucke. Blanket on you head and pretend you are With! you are just a fucken poser, you never cared about Star Wars. And most saddest thing is this: even if Acolyte was back, you nor people like you would ever watch it, like you didn't want First Season, like you never watched Starfleet Academy, because Posers and Tourists only demand and never support.

@AnthonyAvonArt Very nice

Horns of Chaos.

@DaddyWarpig Stop! stop! I can only get so hungry!

That magically becomes 20 pounds of fat once you eat it.

@GPrime85 "I'm an asshole and that's why everyone else is at fault." Yeah, I've heard this argument before.

> Go to fridge > Eat delicious food > Satisfied, don't want anymore > The thought of any more food makes my tummy ache > Burn down the kitchen > Can't believe my brain tricked me into eating, I'll never make that mistake again

@skepticalone44 @CorpseKings Some people like their cake plain. To each his own.

@HypervisionAdv @CorpseKings I was a squire of Sir (Knight's Name). He was hard but fair, and when I was deemed worthy I was knighted as well and was sent on my way. Done. That's it.

Do backgrounds even matter that much in D&D? 🎲

@KevinLamb74 Interesting book, I still have my copy in storage.

"Book of the Damned" by Wayne Reynolds (2017) #FantasyArt

@Recon_Number_54 @DaddyWarpig Before social media, the internet was vulgar and mostly real. Now, without anonymity, the internet is still vulgar, but now mostly fake.

Oh man, Usenet. It was a different age. Horrors and delights with people acting/speaking in ways that would make Redditors blush. Flame wars and outrage expressed with elegance and mindless gibberish. A cacophony of both the best and the worst of humanity, and the binary files. Oh the things you could find, the tales you could tell, almost forgotten from the minds of today.

No. Usenet was a poopshow.

@CorpseKings Never trust the words of a publicly owned and traded company. Hasbro has already turned MtG into cardboard Fortnite, they will do the same for D&D.

I have been kinda out of the loop with the whole Wizards apology tour. The proof will very much be in the pudding. I want to optimistic, but actions speak louder than words. Especially after years of complete bullshit from that company.

@GigaBasedDad If she has the energy, and the calcium hasn't been sucked out of her bones, then good for her!

Is this a W or L?

I'm gonna have to disagree with you. I grew up reading Asimov's books. His non-fiction is excellent. His robot stories were excellent. Foundation bored me to tears as a child and it still does today. If something is boring without context, and boring with context. It's just boring.

And this is where I have to spring to Asimov's defense. You have the privilege of underrating Asimov because you live in the genre world that he and John Campbell and Robert Heinlein created. It's kind of like saying "Jimi Hendrix is overrated as a guitarist". Because it's actually true that today there are guys like Paul Gilbert or John Petrucci who could blow the doors off Jimi if he were still alive and playing like he did in 1971. But Jimi, and a handful of other guys like Dick Dale and Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page and Joe Walsh, built the ground that Gilbert and Petrucci stand on. Judging the OGs by the standards of today's guitar technique is not just disrespectful, it's wrong. And for exactly the same reasons, saying that Asimov is overrated as a writer of (science) fiction is seriously wrong.

The distinction between engineering and magic is entirely a modern linguistic conceit. To the ancients, a wizard, a magus, a sorceror, was not a man who commanded forces outside the laws of nature. He was a man who commanded the forces of nature, by manipulating them through his understanding of natural law. But the modern word for a man who commands the universe by understanding its laws is "engineer". Yes, the ancient sorceror would try to commune with the spirits of the dead, or read the destiny of kings in the stars, or perform fertility rites to make the crops grow, but this wasn't some special supernatural discipline to him. This was simply his model of how the natural world worked. He would not have made a distinction between understanding heat and phase changes, and thereby distilling alcohol, and cutting out the intestines of a bird to predict the fortunes of a business venture. Both, to him, were philosophy and natural law. But as our understanding of the laws of physics grew more sophisticated, we gradually exiled the term "magic" to that which had not been proven to work, and to that which had been proven not to work. Were we given the opportunity to take an ancient Egyptian king on a tour of modern society, riding in an electric car, he would remark that we are a rich people, because we have many powerful magicians. Some of us might hasten to correct him, telling him that there is no magic used here. But he would not, in fact, be wrong.

@BenisKen Kylo Ren is a white guy in black armor. Finn is a black guy in white armor. Kylo Ren was raised good, wants to be evil. Finn was raised evil, wants to be good. Kylo Ren killed his father. Finn would kill to meet his father. The potential was there, and they threw it away.

What an hilarious switch up given that it was the one thing sequel haters agreed on most: that Finn was robbed and should have been the real protagonist.

@Fenrirtheicewo1 Notice that in the first image, the woman is the leader. The second image was never necessary for inclusion.

And that is why it failed so hard.

It is my firm and consistent observation, that the vast majority of functions performed with my taxes could be performed by normal people in their spare time. For example, I don't need the government to take a third of my money, keep some of it, and then give it back to me when I'm old. I can save money myself. Then there is all the fraudulent spending that is being uncovered in my country right now. I was told as a child that all these things were being taken care of by professionals and it was all a lie. Turns out my parent's money, and my money, was gambled away in 2008, or used to purchase faulty vaccines in 2020, or devalued in 2021, or wasted in numerous other ways. Everything I was told as a child was a lie, but the statement "taxes are necessary" was the worst lie of all.

@HypervisionAdv @GigaBasedDad Please explain this to me, I'm just curious maybe I will agree with you.

What's the worst thing you learned in Public School?

@THEStevenWolfe @LavenderGhast Never forget what Disney stole from us.

@HypervisionAdv @LavenderGhast To be fair, I like how the Saga Edition RPG handles the Force: It's Luck for anyone not strong enough or *unwilling* to explore it, but having a predisposition to tap into it helps Han is *Lucky*, not a Force User Jaden Korr is a GIFTED Jedi Knight, not Lucky

If anyone can have the force with training why did the Sith ever struggle with their numbers. Why did they have to hunt down force sensitives rather than just training anyone to become an inquisitor. And Sabine becoming a Jedi takes away from what made her special and the concept that just because you lack talent in one area, doesn't mean you can't find the thing that makes you special. Now she's just another force user gifted with magic powers.

@micsolana "Healthy social media" is a place where people can scream slurs at each other without a corporation or government censoring them. Left to their own devices, those people will learn self moderation naturally.