It used to be that if you followed a link to a twitter thread, it would show you a random post from the thread followed by 10 unrelated posts twitter thinks maybe you'd rather read. Now it just shows 1 post from the thread, so I guess that's an improvement.
When you click a tweet that is part of a thread and is several tweets down from the top, it goes into that tweet's page. Then when you press the browser back button, it should (and used to) save the scroll position of the tweet you were last at. But now it always resets you back to the top starting of the thread. Super irritating when you want to read replies for specific tweets in a tweetstorm.
Seems like the biggest differences I've noticed were in the content and lack of spam prevention more than anything particularly technical or performance related. I used to get the odd spam message before, but now I get tagged in all kind of random scam posts, and get likes from obvious bots posting NSFW content.
Two things I've noticed myself and have been thinking about recently:
- It seems like there's a lot fewer miserable people being miserable on Twitter.
- There's more... openness to merit, science, free discussion about controversial topics (eg DEI) with less risk of being cancelled, no matter which side of the debate you sit on. I am having my beliefs challenged and being (slightly) offended far more than before. Which is good.
This isn't to say there isn't any of this on Twitter, but for my feed, it's died down considerably and other people I talk to seem to think the same.
That said, while I continually try to see things from his point of view, my personal opinion of Elon Musk has really nose-dived. He really seems like a hot mess.
Stopped supporting old platforms such as Blackberry in some pesky way last winter. Instead of giving me a raw txt which is what twitter post has in its essence, it gives me another 1MB webpage which tells me to consider upgrading of something.
Also there is significantly less Twitter posts on HN since last winter which I appreciate.
They're currently rolling out Grok, which is the Xai LLM. It's just getting started and might have weaknesses compared to other LLMs out there today. It does have a "Fun Mode" with a different communication style.
I've had an alt account specifically for porn for a while. Prior to 2023, most porn clips were only 20-30 seconds. This year, I've noticed the bot accounts regularly post full 30 minute scenes, or even 2 hour long movies.
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- It seems like there's a lot fewer miserable people being miserable on Twitter.
- There's more... openness to merit, science, free discussion about controversial topics (eg DEI) with less risk of being cancelled, no matter which side of the debate you sit on. I am having my beliefs challenged and being (slightly) offended far more than before. Which is good.
This isn't to say there isn't any of this on Twitter, but for my feed, it's died down considerably and other people I talk to seem to think the same.
That said, while I continually try to see things from his point of view, my personal opinion of Elon Musk has really nose-dived. He really seems like a hot mess.
Also there is significantly less Twitter posts on HN since last winter which I appreciate.