Social media miscellany

Of course, if no-one else is interested, this thread will be an echo chamber, and that would deserve to go in the irony thread.

Hmm, must have pressed the wrong buttons, but have not noticed that. Mind you, I have got the experience fairly well clamped down with a decent adblocker.

I'd characterise FB as mostly the boring option, but maybe that's by design (by Zuckerberg - e.g. throttling political content on Threads) or because of the stuff I do in it. Despite that, it's still got a pretty amazing reach, and still its worldwide audience is huge (over 2bn users still access it *every day*, and that number is still growing).

Ah yes. KG, you've got a follower.

I think he's noticed. And obviously dealing with it in a totally rational way.

Having a little amusement just seeing if anything I post gets other Blueskyers' attention... not much it seems (which doesn't bother me in the least), despite quite of few of the people I follow following me back (must admit, I can't quite see the point of that, but seems to be one of the 'done things'). Will probably just continue farting into the void with (mostly) pretty pictures, in case anyone needs a pretty picture (or one of spark plugs).

That said, the bigger political/commentators' accounts are getting a lot of interaction, at a much higher ratio of followers v comments & likes than X, so they will be happy.

This is a significant shift - it was why Twitter was so useful and successful until Musky came along and broke it. The Syrian situation could be followed almost in real time.

They are actively working on the bots problem. Yes, I find the Discover tab a bit weird (FFS, not another rubbish rainbow photo, thanks), but I'm seeing if I can train it with "Show less like this". I've also put a complete block on Wordle posts, as I've got absolutely no interest in whether people have got it 1, 3, or are useless.

I've used quite a lot of the starter packs on areas I'm interested in, then unfollowed the ones from those packs that bore me. I've also subscribed to a couple of the auto-MAGA-block things. I'm following about 1K accounts now, and seem to get quite a good mix. One of them has a very similar name to yours, and seems to have the same taste in music... 😉

My Twitter feed was too narrow, I think, so I've gone in the other direction this time. It's a slightly bizarre mix of political and other stuff, but it feeds me an interesting diet without it being dominated by just the obvious people and institutions. I've tried in particular to go a bit more international with various European media bodies and journos, as well as US stuff (which is how I got into Twitter). For a while my feed was a load of Canadian stuff, which I've reduced now, though not entirely.

Mixture of reasons... to have some idea of what's going on the world (I don't have a TV, listen to UK radio or take a daily paper), and it's interesting interacting with various people who you don't know in person.

Why do you do Cake Stop? Couldn't you just go down the pub and talk to random people?

But you probably won't get a wide range of vaguely reliable news sources down the pub, so where do you go for that? I have a hunch you're not a Telegraph man...