The Lords and Peasants System
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Only shitlibs block so this is just handing twitter back to the leftists.
Or you just don't want to see X guy who keeps popping up in feeds.
Yeah because nobody ever downvotes here or anything.
Do the downvotes actually do anything, aside from making comments show lower on the page?
They're basically a poll on how many people agree or disagree with a statement. A gauge of the mentality of the mob that read the comment. And from my observations, just like on reddit, if a comment is initially upvoted or downvoted, people are generally inclined to vote the same way, which is a tendency I find interesting.
can someone translate this? I have no idea what that means (and I even use twitter, sometimes)
If I understand correctly, it means that blocking someone or muting them will demote their content in a similar way to downvoting on reddit or win, so that fewer people will see it even if they don't have that person blocked or muted.
A system like this would be alright if the ranking worked closer to block chaining: in other words it should only demote the content to people who follow the person doing mute/block. Then you could distribute that rank adjustment out to 2nd and 3rd removed peers, though with diminishing effects with each hop. You need a person-to-person reputation system. Not global.
And obviously if I follow someone, their content should always be at the top for me.
https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1603985491505795072
Archive in case nitter doesn't load the tweet: https://archive.vn/lRH1b
What is with that BTW? I've had this issue a lot recently, I use an extension that automatically moves twitter domains to nitter if I ever do have to check and it just keeps being bad recently with no show tweets.
In my experience it's just the .net instance. It's been having various issues for a while, likely because it's the most used one. Just pick another one here: https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances - I've been happy with .cz and .hu recently.