Comments

• By blindseer 2023-04-256:36

  This is only going to make it easier people like crypto scammers to boost their activities. Just think about the people that are going to want to pay to have their voices prioritized, and have it be worth it.

  Any influencer that wants to sell you ads, any organization that benefits from you buying into their product, any scammer that can trick you from parting with your money, all those people are going to want to pay for this and will be rewarded for doing so.

  Meanwhile, I struggle to see why the people that generate actual good discourse (imo I guess), the scientists, the engineers, the writers, the thinkers, etc, would ever consider paying for this.

  I'm sure there's a massive bot problem but couldn't that have been dealt in different ways? Getting people to pay to boost their tweets as a value add for the subscription really devalues the platform.

• By danso 2023-04-257:13

  For the most part today I didn’t notice a big change in how replies were ordered because, as it turns out, I interact mostly with my friends and network, who have overwhelmingly rejected joining Twitter Blue, and thus don't (yet) see much competition between bluechecks and non-bluechecks.

  But it’s definitely noticeable when I go into the replies of a general news thread, like yesterday's announcements of Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon being fired. The algorithm is very coarse — after prioritizing the thread author's replies, then it's just a free-for-all of bluechecks. Not in chronological order, or by amount of engagement or size of account. Just seemingly random, which is just not enjoyable.

  I can't even see my own replies to a big tweet — previously, your own replies to a tweet would show up at the top of all replies.

• By ZacnyLos 2023-04-256:42

  Here's how verfication works on Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/verification