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Add a payment function to it.

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Facebook’s P/E at current price is like 17. S&P 500 is currently ~24ish. It’s perfectly rational to expect FB to recover given that they’re still making money hand over fist.

(ad bucks aren’t going away anytime soon, and they’ve been improving revenue [even with Apple’s big counter stroke] even as user growth has slowed/finally declined, just a matter of how much Zuck wants to spend on VR)

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NFT emojis.

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You can say the same thing for Facebook!

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Twitter will do this shit in waves, in my experience.

Adblocking helps with some of it, but a lot of it is just baked into Twitter.

Every couple of weeks Twitter will decide that someone following someone is the same as a Retweet. Or likes. Likes are now Retweets until you mark every single one of them as “not interested”. We’ll see you next month when we do it again.

Also you should check out this topic or these people.

That said compared to Facebook it’s fucking bliss. My feed is basically just people I follow 90% of the time.
Facebook is 60% ads, 30% Dodo or similar animal stories and 10% actual people you know.

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I honestly feel like people are browsing a different Twitter than I am. Wtih uBlock Origin and making sure that it’s in “Latest Tweets” mode I just see the tweets and retweets by people I follow, in time order. There’s some crap on the side about “What’s Happening” and “Who to follow” but it’s easy to ignore because it’s not in the main timeline.

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Just want to say, if I haven’t before, Margaret Cho follows me on Twitter. That is all. :)

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Hahahaha.

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Sounds like you’re browsing on PC? The terrible experience I get it via the Android app.

I scrolled through the latest 10 items on my timeline. Only 2 of the 10 were from people I follow, the rest were promoted ads for the Olympics, some garbage mobile game, three prompts to expand my list of topics, two prompts for following more people, and then a bunch of random junk from topics such as “business personalities”, fitness, and Joe Rogan.

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Yup, PC. On Android I don’t use the app, just the browser. I do see ads (promoted tweets), but it didn’t seem that bad. Maybe I just have a strong case of ad blindness, though

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Chasing the latest trend always works! Facebook wants to be TikTok now, because they couldn’t buy TikTok.

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Twitter has now made it basically impossible to use the site without an account. A few months back they started preventing you from searching or viewing threads, though this was sometimes avoidable for a while by using a different device. But in the last week they stop you even looking at a specific person’s feed after you scroll down more than a couple of posts.

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For clicking a link that gives you the sign in pop up that sends you back if you close it, break the referrer chain by going to the address bar and hit enter on the url before closing the sign up window.

The new one that comes up when you scroll I haven’t tried to work around yet.

Edit: Doing the address bar trick seems to let me scroll further now on my phone. Try it.

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I just decided to look upon it as tiwtter saving me from wasting time reading inane babble.

The only time I’ve ever wandered over to it is from links posted here.

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I like to use Nitter to browse Twitter in the browser on my phone. Nice, clean, and fast if you use a mirror that’s not overloaded.

Ok, that link preview is completely wrong.

Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Using an instance of Nitter (hosted on a VPS for example), you can browse Twitter without JavaScript while retaining your privacy. In addition to respecting your privacy, Nitter is on average around 15 times lighter than Twitter, and in most cases serves pages faster (eg. timelines load 2-4x faster).

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Yeah, me too. It function precisely like those blockers you can install that are supposed to keep you focused on work by not allowing you to go to one of your distractor websites without passing some long, annoying typing test. I don’t miss Twitter at all, and appreciate that Twitter is helping me remember that.

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Obviously, the only thing that’s going to make virtual reality catch on is some kind of sex machine that is so addictive people starve to death strapped into their jerking chair or whatever.

LOL