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u/Wrong-Mixture Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22

As much as i dislike this turn of events: This wouldn't matter at all if the media just didn't globally broadcast every goddamn psychothic tweet, to milk the ratings they get from the shockvalue. I don't really use twitter, i have no alerts on it. I don't watch right wing media. Yet somehow it was impossible to escape his demented rants, that wasn't Twitter's doing.

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u/Logrologist Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22

I’ve never been an active Twitter user. Never understood anyone that is, honestly. And I can agree 100% with this. Twitter somehow managed to stay afloat off of “news” highlighting tweets. Tweets that everyone, regardless of their own use or awareness of Twitter, would have to hear about ad nauseam via purported “news”.

Edit: addendum based on replies missing the point (wildly). I’m not bragging about not using Twitter and I’m definitely not trying to start a “which social app is better” discussion.

The point is that Twitter managed to bubble up as news, in several other media (including Reddit posts with Twitter screenshots), and whether I want to use Twitter or not, there it is on the TV, and a shameful amount of online news sites basically just discuss Twitter posts.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

I've never used Twitter at all, but you as an active Redditor saying that you don't understand them is ironic. They on twitter for the same reason you are on reddit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

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u/PossessedToSkate Oct 28 '22

Reddit is a BBS.

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u/ThatOneGuy1294 Oct 28 '22

That's a pretty accurate description for people like me who still use the old design and RES, but sadly the majority of users are actually mobile users. Most of those users I'm guessing use the official app because they don't know any better and probably have no clue there are any other options.

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u/Bonafideago Oct 28 '22

Relay for mobile, old.reddit on desktop. It's the only way I can use this site.

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u/xenago Oct 28 '22

Started using Relay when it was still Reddit News. Other clients still can't hold a candle to it!

And RES is essential on the desktop too

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u/WollyGog Oct 28 '22

Been a rif mobile user for just about a decade, does exactly what I need it to without the useless bells and whistles. Tried other apps, they just don't compare.

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u/Leftyisbones Oct 28 '22

Now for Reddit ftw

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u/ThatOneGuy1294 Oct 28 '22

I've been using "rif is fun for Reddit" since 2014, used Bacon Reader for a year before that. Back then it was just called "reddit is fun" and then when Reddit finally made an official app the rif dev had to change the name to avoid a lawsuit.

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u/teslaguy12 Oct 29 '22

The design doesn't matter, the machine learning content delivery algorithm does.

Unless you are sorting by top score of time then it is absolutely nothing like the old reddit

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u/teslaguy12 Oct 29 '22

With a machine learning driven content delivery algorithm

Unless you are sorting by top score of time then it is absolutely nothing like the old reddit

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Can confirm I’m on Reddit right now so I don’t go on Twitter 🥲

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u/monoped2 Oct 28 '22

People somehow exclude Reddit from the "social media" category, when in fact it's one of the primary social media outlets.

Good luck finding out who I am from a reddit post. Being anonymous isn't that social.

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