Bluesky

[MrLongbeard]

his Mother poisoned him and his twin brother, and they both woke up from their comaose state to find they were on the railroad tracks, with a train coming. His message was "Never give up"

So his mother tried again? ?!?!?!

[Noggin]

I used to quite like Instagram but now I only ever seem to see stuff I should 'follow' rather than stuff posted by people I actually do follow

A bit annoying really so I find myself using it less and less

It works the same as X and Bluesky, you set it to only show those you are following rather than suggestions from them.
It's one of the reasons I don't get people having a mard towards a social platform, set it up to work how you want it to work and you see no negative shit at all, unless you go looking for it.

Oh wow. I actually didn't know I could do that!! Off to have a look for the setting!!

[MrLongbeard]

I used to quite like Instagram but now I only ever seem to see stuff I should 'follow' rather than stuff posted by people I actually do follow

A bit annoying really so I find myself using it less and less

It works the same as X and Bluesky, you set it to only show those you are following rather than suggestions from them.
It's one of the reasons I don't get people having a mard towards a social platform, set it up to work how you want it to work and you see no negative shit at all, unless you go looking for it.

Oh wow. I actually didn't know I could do that!! Off to have a look for the setting!!

I've just looked on Insta, buggered if I can find it, but I don't get suggestions until I've worked through all of my followed content.

[Count Steer]

Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook (I signed up just to look at a video of an old mates art exhibition in Greece, then never looked in again)....all 3 keep sending me email notifications or other notifications. Even after I purged FB.

Like Noggin says, the stuff I wanted to follow on IG is swamped by algorithmic crap and adverts.

(Fortunately FB links to a 'sacrificial' email account).

I suppose I should jump through the hoops and get the FB and LI accounts deleted. I do still occasionally check in on IG and keep in contact with a couple of people via it a couple of times a year, so I guess I really count as 'barely active' ).

Just spotted the post about configuring IG to eliminate the spam. Really???! How?

[DefTrap]

The genius of Musk was to introduce Community Notes to X. That is a self regulating fact checking notation (by the users).

Yeah if you look hard enough I'm sure you can see the same level of genius incisive commentary, amongst the tidal wave of nonsense, against articles on the Daily Mail website. It's a fair comparison.
Who is policing Community Notes? Who is providing this fact checking service?

[DefTrap]

his Mother poisoned him and his twin brother, and they both woke up from their comaose state to find they were on the railroad tracks, with a train coming. His message was "Never give up"

So his mother tried again? ?!?!?!

I don't think it's the done thing to shit over someone else's LinkedIn, but it's so very tempting in this case.

[Screwdriver]

The genius of Musk was to introduce Community Notes to X. That is a self regulating fact checking notation (by the users).

Yeah if you look hard enough I'm sure you can see the same level of genius incisive commentary, amongst the tidal wave of nonsense, against articles on the Daily Mail website. It's a fair comparison.
Who is policing Community Notes? Who is providing this fact checking service?

Not even close. The methodology and coding for the community notes service is entirely open source. Who knows what gets censored, deleted, shadow banned on the Daily Mail website? It's not a source I use myself...

As for who is policing Community Notes, the clue is in the title and if you look carefully, described in my post above,

[Count Steer]

It works the same as X and Bluesky, you set it to only show those you are following rather than suggestions from them.
It's one of the reasons I don't get people having a mard towards a social platform, set it up to work how you want it to work and you see no negative shit at all, unless you go looking for it.

Oh wow. I actually didn't know I could do that!! Off to have a look for the setting!!

I've just looked on Insta, buggered if I can find it, but I don't get suggestions until I've worked through all of my followed content.

Don't think that's how mine appear. I'll have a look next week. (Maybe it's followed accounts first per days posts? Certainly last time I looked in I thought 'Eh? I don't remember much of this, I'm sure I don't follow that, that, that, that etc').

[Mr. Dazzle]

The genius of Musk was to introduce Community Notes to X.

You know community notes predates Musk by several years, right? Perhaps a community note is needed.

[Count Steer]

The genius of Musk was to introduce Community Notes to X.

You know community notes predates Musk by several years, right? Perhaps a community note is needed.

Ain't that similar to how Wikipedia is moderated at the first level?

[MyLittleStudPony]

Twitter was very chattering classes back in the day. Stephen Fry was all over it.

Last I heard it had dropped 25% in value since Elon Musk took over and turned it shouty right wing.

[Gregor]

The genius of Musk was to introduce Community Notes to X.

You know community notes predates Musk by several years, right? Perhaps a community note is needed.

He’s not been liking it much since getting community noted on his own postings.

[Screwdriver]

The genius of Musk was to introduce Community Notes to X.

You know community notes predates Musk by several years, right? Perhaps a community note is needed.

I know that it does not. Perhaps you are beguiled by Wikibollocks. You are bandying semantics.

The feature that Musk developed for X is not merely an ability for members to append "notes" to content they disagree with. It is a much more robust process...

[Mr. Dazzle]

TBF it's massively on brand for Musk to claim he introduced or invented something he didn't. He's taken over from Steve Jobs and Apple in that regard.

[Screwdriver]

TBF it's massively on brand for Musk to claim he introduced or invented something he didn't. He's taken over from Steve Jobs and Apple in that regard.

I don't think he is making any such claim. I did but then I was being imprecise I guess (if you say so). He certainly did change Twitter and insert a new process called "Community Notes" into X.

[demographic]

TBF it's massively on brand for Musk to claim he introduced or invented something he didn't. He's taken over from Steve Jobs and Apple in that regard.

Like him being a co-founder of Tesla?

[Screwdriver]

Like him being a co-founder of Tesla?

...and SpaceX, The Boring company, OpenAI, Starlink, Twitter/X, Neuralink, PayPal.

Bloody multibillionares claiming to be so bloody clever. I mean what a loser....

[Mr. Dazzle]

Demo is right though, Musk didn't found Tesla. Or PayPal FWiW.

[demographic]

Like him being a co-founder of Tesla?

Twitter/X

Err... Twitter?

[Mr. Dazzle]

Fun little fact, the payment website he was a founder of was X.com, back in like 200something.

Saved a few quid on the domain name maybe.