[HN Gopher] IsMyXFeedFucked - Analyze How Your X Feed's Impactin...
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IsMyXFeedFucked - Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You
Author : natdude
Score : 81 points
Date : 2025-01-19 08:43 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| natdude wrote:
| Newly released! Feedback would be great!
| nbittich wrote:
| Just tried it, says it's fcked but I don't agree. There is zero
| political tweets on the feed analyzed, yet it says center left;
| it's basically just tech tweets.
| the_mitsuhiko wrote:
| I'm not sure how that thing works and I haven't tried it, but
| even my tech tweets on the feed are sometimes deeply
| political these days.
| nbittich wrote:
| I've the maximum muted words (200), literally muted country
| names so maybe that's why my feed is clean ish. Wish there
| was no limit though, still get some ai stuff sometimes
| whoitwas wrote:
| Wouldn't most tech or science tweets be considered left since
| the right has divorced itself from reality?
| mandelken wrote:
| I keep getting an error "your file exceeds the maximum allowed
| size" or something. It's a clip of 1:20 on iphone. I tried
| clipping it to 1 min but then it wouldn't allow upload. I
| exported the clip to files and then uploaded but same error.
| How may I reduce the file size on my iPhone?
| sureIy wrote:
| My X feed is FUBAR.
|
| My feed was tech-only. Real people publishing real stuff.
|
| Last year X started occasionally showing some random content like
| Reddit, I'd mark them as "not interesting" and move on.
|
| Since last month there's no tech content by tech people, there's
| exclusively junk worse than on Reddit's homepage. No amount of
| "not interesting" will fix it. Oh, there's porn now too.
|
| I stopped opening X altogether.
| dustingetz wrote:
| i turned off the images, it's under bandwidth saving settings
| but makes x much better and helps keep the alg away from memes
| also
| sunaookami wrote:
| Why not use the "Following" feed? You won't get any recommended
| content (besides ads without an adblocker) and only see stuff
| from people you follow.
|
| Side note: It's annoying how many tech people started posting
| their political hot takes since ~2016. I unfollowed everyone
| who tweeted about politics.
| cosmic_cheese wrote:
| Discover feeds, if they try to be actually relevant to the
| user, can be a great tool for finding new people to follow
| and help keep the following feed fresh. I primarily follow
| artists on Twit-alikes and it's how I once upon a time used
| it on Twitter and now use it on Bluesky.
|
| A discover feed that's not adversarial isn't strictly
| necessary but it's a significant selling point.
| sunaookami wrote:
| >I primarily follow artists on Twit-alikes and it's how I
| once upon a time used it on Twitter and now use it on
| Bluesky.
|
| I still do this on Twitter and the "For You" feed works
| great.
| calmworm wrote:
| "It's annoying how many people started posting their
| political hot takes..." ftfy
| matthewdgreen wrote:
| Because a lot of the smartest and most interesting people
| just stopped posting. And frankly I don't blame them. A good
| chunk of the reason is that the replies are recently much
| more angry and toxic, which makes the entire platform
| stressful to use.
| 2024user wrote:
| Examples of those people?
| vanrohan wrote:
| Also make sure to remove bots from your followers. Having them
| in your social graph impacts your feed for sure. I made the "x
| bot remover" Chrome extension that automates removal based on
| simple rules. It's free.
|
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-bot-remover/aohkh...
| vborovikov wrote:
| Thanks for the extension. By the way it only started working
| after I switched the X display language to English.
| vanrohan wrote:
| Thanks for letting me now, I need to fix this, or atleast
| mention it in the extension description.
| Havoc wrote:
| That plus even the classic SV tech crowd is now so entangled in
| US partisan politics that you're more likely to hear about
| whatever outrage is happening in culture wars than a new
| technology. Complete write-off and I don't just mean X
| nobrains wrote:
| I have noticed searching for topics that interest me, ends up
| showing more content related to that search term in my feed.
| At least for some time. Just putting it out there incase
| someone wants to manually tweak their timeline using the
| search workaround.
| smt88 wrote:
| The classic SV tech crowd wasn't worth following anyway. It
| was an endless stream of self-promotion and people pretending
| to have great wisdom because they exited one company once
| (or, worse, got a job as a VC).
| greatgib wrote:
| What is infuriating is the fucked algorithm that is now showing
| in priority the tweets of Elon, even if you don't subscribe,
| follow or care about him.
|
| That is the real problem nowadays, he destroyed the system to
| make it a self promotion tool first. I'm quite sure that always
| on feed tweets of him can easily brain wash hundreds of
| millions of people.
| PartiallyTyped wrote:
| I had him blocked and last I used xitter I still saw his
| stuff.
| tbihl wrote:
| At the risk coming off as pedantic, it ceases to be a self-
| promotion tool if the system is destroyed.
| miki123211 wrote:
| Use "latest", not "for you."
|
| "Latest" is still exclusively people you follow, in
| chronological order (and content explicitly marked as sponsored
| if you don't have premium.)
|
| _X is the only corporate social media platform that offers
| this._ You don 't like the algorithm? Don't use it, and use X
| just like everybody else for the first 10 years of its life.
| tanaros wrote:
| > X is the only corporate social media platform that offers
| this. You don't like the algorithm? Don't use it, and use X
| just like everybody else for the first 10 years of its life.
|
| Speaking as a non-X user, doesn't YouTube offer essentially
| the same thing with the "subscriptions" tab?
| sitharus wrote:
| Yep, it absolutely does. YouTube would be unusable without
| it for me
| shkkmo wrote:
| I don't know that I'd consider YouTube to be social media,
| though there are similarities.
| drdeca wrote:
| Tumblr also has this?
|
| (Not counting the ads and specifically-paid-to-be-promoted
| posts, but those are clearly marked, and I'm pretty sure
| twitter has as many in-line ads)
| gammarator wrote:
| ... Bluesky offers a clean, strictly chronological following
| feed as well as your choice of algorithmic feeds.
| threeseed wrote:
| > X is the only corporate social media platform that offers
| this
|
| Threads and BlueSky both offer this.
|
| And so there is no literally zero reason now why anyone
| should stay on X.
| romaniitedomum wrote:
| > And so there is no literally zero reason now why anyone
| should stay on X.
|
| Unless the people you're interested in hearing from are
| mostly or exclusively there.
| louthy wrote:
| > X is the only corporate social media platform that offers
| this
|
| Facebook has this: menu -> feeds -> friends
| SketchySeaBeast wrote:
| > X is the only corporate social media platform that offers
| this.
|
| Why would you emphasize that point when it's clearly wrong?
| Is it ignorance? Is it to push a particular narrative? I'm
| confused.
| shkkmo wrote:
| Your comment would be more productive if you provided a
| counter example or any argument to support your claim.
| SketchySeaBeast wrote:
| I didn't provide an example because there's already a ton
| of other responders with examples. The claim is clearly
| false, but it was presented as emphatically true and I
| was wondering why.
| t-writescode wrote:
| I have found my mental health substantially better from
| downvoting and moving on in those cases, especially if
| there's other people already responding with what you
| would want to say.
| Kye wrote:
| Most of the tech people I recognize are on Bluesky now. If you
| follow enough of the same people, even the "Following" timeline
| won't help because they're just not there.
| matthewdgreen wrote:
| Yup. I had a beautiful infosec feed that was incredibly useful.
| Sometime over the summer my "for you" devolved into wild
| political opinions, and many of the smartest people left the
| platform which turned by "Following" feed into a ghost town.
| Every time I used the app I came away feeling angry, and I
| realized I was happier not using the app than using it.
|
| Fortunately about 1/2 of the smart people have shown up on
| Bluesky, and we can have technical conversations now. I'm
| hoping all the energy eventually comes back.
| Gooblebrai wrote:
| Is this analyzing the video with AI?
| Havoc wrote:
| >Record and upload a 1-2 minute screen recording of you scrolling
| through your X/Twitter feed.
|
| Is that really the only way to get hold of someones feed? It's
| neat from a tech perspective & very AI...but seems rather
| cumbersome
| mingus88 wrote:
| Would you rather give a random 3rd party API access to your
| social media? Would you trust X to not leak more than just the
| first few pages of your feed?
|
| This way is clumsy but I appreciate that you have absolute
| control over what you are sharing.
| natdude wrote:
| Yeah I tried for a long time on this! Initially I attempted
| APIs - but they're locked down and you can't get access to
| user's feeds.
|
| Secondly, I tried a chrome extension, but these don't work on
| mobile devices (80% of social media users) so it was redundant
| (plus very brittle as it depended on specific DOM elements).
| Also, a lot of content is video/audio, which isn't well
| captured by static analysis.
|
| A video is a bit annoying to take, but yes, it was the only
| solution I found!
| arnvald wrote:
| To me the worst part is not even the feed (I can use "following"
| tab) but the replies. I often used to look at single threads to
| see replies there. Since they started prioritizing replies from
| premium users it turned into cesspool and I eventually stopped
| using X altogether
| matsemann wrote:
| Yup, so short-sighted. Probably boosted numbers when lots of
| trolls bought premium to be noticed (where their obnoxious
| replies normally would land in the bottom with no views), but
| in the end I got so tired of the hostile environment that I
| just stopped using it.
| threeseed wrote:
| > started prioritizing replies from premium users
|
| And often non-premium users are simply flagged as spam and
| hidden.
|
| Which actually means that if Elon removes your blue checkmark
| (as happened recently with Asmongold) then it is akin to a
| shadowban.
| extraduder_ire wrote:
| You can change how replies are sorted for you via a button on
| the top right, but you have to change it every time you open
| some replies.
|
| The problem comes from the default sort order shown to everyone
| though, not just you as you're reading it.
| bjackman wrote:
| I did the same, very quickly. I'm now on BlueSky and it's
| exactly like pre-Musk Twitter.
| egeozcan wrote:
| Bluesky doesn't have contact import yet (or I didn't see it).
| Are there any good lists for techie/nerd content? I really
| miss my old Twitter feed but most people I followed switched
| to Bluesky and it's a lot of manual work to find people
| again.
| Kye wrote:
| Here you go: https://goodfeeds.co/search?q=tech
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| It's a de facto entry level advertising tier for the worst
| products and the worst takes. Everything on the platform is an
| ad impression.
| haunter wrote:
| I just don't get why don't people use the "following" tab. You
| only see people you follow, if they post things you don't like
| unfollow them that's all.
| that_guy_iain wrote:
| Because Twitter switches you a lot and even then you also have
| all the random notifications from people you don't follow.
| haunter wrote:
| >Because Twitter switches you a lot
|
| What does that mean? Twiter doesn't switch my tabs on its
| own, neither on desktop or mobile.
|
| >and even then you also have all the random notifications
| from people you don't follow.
|
| I only get notifications from people I don't follow if
| someone likes my tweets or they reply
| that_guy_iain wrote:
| I feel like you don't use Twitter that much then. Because
| they added the whole notifications about new posts feature
| a while back and it's not based on who you follow and I
| believe famously it's like that so Musk gets more views.
| And I feel like my tabs get changed on a somewhat frequent
| basis but I've stopped using it to really keep track.
| haunter wrote:
| I use it all the time and I've never seen posts from
| people I don't follow. Once again I only use the
| "following" tab
| sunaookami wrote:
| This is simply not true. Before Musk took over Twitter
| they constantly switched to the "For You" tab. Only after
| Musk bought it it was changed so the setting sticks. You
| can also change your notification settings to the old way
| (only people you follow, etc.).
| that_guy_iain wrote:
| I think you need to readvise what "simply not true"
| means. I gave my experience and for you someone who
| doesn't even know me cannot say what is or is not true
| about my experiences.
| theultdev wrote:
| It's not an opinion. It was like that (Twitter), now it's
| not (X).
|
| He's telling you your experience is outdated.
| that_guy_iain wrote:
| > It's not an opinion. It was like that (Twitter), now
| it's not (X).
|
| ????????????
|
| > He's telling you your experience is outdated.
|
| No, they said what I said was simply not true.
|
| And my experience is from using the new stuff. There may
| be technical reasons why it wasn't sticky however in my
| experience it wasn't as sticky as it should be and I
| ended up on the crappy feed all the time.
| Oarch wrote:
| Old twitter switched you all the time. I even used a plugin
| to switch me back.
|
| I've never knew been switched since the acquisition.
| agos wrote:
| during the old twitter times you could use a third party
| client, that was the trick
| 028 wrote:
| https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/twitter
| whoitwas wrote:
| If you're using X or any other social media, the answer is yes
| and so are you.
| medhir wrote:
| If you find your X feed is fucked, bluesky is right there and
| offers complete algorithm customization... the network effects
| aren't as strong but at least there's some options to better
| control the experience.
| CactusBlue wrote:
| Bsky does not fix any of the core problems with Twitter. It's
| still fundamentally a "town square" with algorithmic feeds that
| keep you engaged. It actively tries to transplant the culture
| of Twitter to itself, which is something that I don't wish to
| deal with at all.
| auniff wrote:
| It presents itself as a "town square" but because the
| platform has such strong behaviour in severing interactions
| between accounts, in practice it consists lots of isolated
| silos of users echoing the same views to each other ad
| infinitum.
|
| A forum like HN is much more of a town square because pretty
| much everyone sees the same content in every set of comments,
| with just one toggle ("showdead") to modify that.
| astrange wrote:
| It has totally optional algorithmic feeds, and the ones it
| does have don't work (they only show me spambots) so there's
| no motivation to use them.
| TiredOfLife wrote:
| Bluesky doesn't even have a following feed like twitter (where
| only posts by people you follow show up)
| medhir wrote:
| yes it does...
| TiredOfLife wrote:
| No, it doesn't.
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| What the hell are you talking about, that's the default view.
| TiredOfLife wrote:
| It might be default view but its filled with posts by
| people i don't follow
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| You can turn off retweets and replies. If you're going to
| use software with only the default options, at least
| don't spread misinformation about what you failed to try
| to learn.
| drusepth wrote:
| The two feeds on Bluesky are "Following" (only posts by
| people you follow show up) and "Discover" (largely dominated
| by posts by people you don't follow). There are two huge tabs
| at the top of your feed to switch between them.
|
| If you are following 0 people, the "Following" feed acts
| similar to the "Discover" feed. As soon as you follow a
| single person, it works as you'd expect (only showing content
| from people you've followed).
| TiredOfLife wrote:
| I follow multiple people. The following tab shows a couple
| of their posts and the rest is just random posters
| CactusBlue wrote:
| I've had a particularly bad breakup with my ex-girlfriend who I
| met on Twitter (I was the one responsible for the falling out),
| and I had to delete my Twitter account for two reasons:
|
| 1. The open, "town-square" nature of Twitter meant that it was
| easy to run into each other again, and she was feeling
| uncomfortable sharing space with me.
|
| 2. This was taking a huge toll on my mental health at the time,
| because just being on Twitter (or any of the many Twitter clones,
| for that matter) was reminding me of my relationship with her,
| just because of how the algorithm worked.
|
| I still think Twitter provided value for me as a startup founder,
| for marketing and networking purposes. But It wasn't really
| matter of if it provided value or not; Twitter was driving me to
| death in the most literal sense of the word possible. To choose
| life, I chose to leave Twitter.
|
| As someone whose startup builds social platforms, I am extremely
| turned off by the idea of "public square" models for the
| internet, after these incidents. We shouldn't aim to get everyone
| into a single feed, where you are given a curated feed, designed
| to engage you for as long as possible for the whims of
| advertisers, as opposed to the utility of the users.
| polygon87 wrote:
| Apologizes if this is insensitive, but was one of you blocking
| or muting the other an option? I've muted all my exes on IG.
| CactusBlue wrote:
| We did block each other mutually, but the world is a small
| place, and the algorithm works to ensure that the world is a
| small place, as you're usually only one or two degrees of
| separation away.
| eddieh wrote:
| Yes. Negatively.
|
| Not sure analysis is needed. Algorithmic feeds are fucked and
| impact you negatively. All of them!
|
| You have no real control over what you see, they're ephemeral,
| nobody has a shared experience, and that's _only a few_ things
| that are fucked.
| nenaoki wrote:
| Nice job. It should ignore ads imho, my top 2 "largest
| influences" were just ads. I mean, I guess we do influence ads
| via engagement or whatnot, but it's not as if I pay mind to an ad
| the way I pay mind to a post.
|
| My card: https://files.catbox.moe/t8rzlb.png
| natdude wrote:
| Thanks, that's a good point - do you think some analysis of
| advertising would interest you?
|
| There may only be a couple of ads per 'sample' though, so maybe
| not enough to be interesting.
| nenaoki wrote:
| I reckon it's mostly noise. An ad I saw three times in the
| sample was just an awful mobile game I don't deserve to be
| subject to ads about, and the other ad I saw twice was just
| based on my location.
| PixelForg wrote:
| It says that my feed is pretty fucked, but I only follow pixel
| and anime artists :) I unfollow anyone that posts anything other
| than art repeatedly, I guess it is an echo chamber of some sorts.
|
| https://files.catbox.moe/ehu9pc.jpg
| natdude wrote:
| Oh interesting - thanks for the upload
| natdude wrote:
| Oh interesting - thanks for the upload. Ahh - its the N/A
| political diversity being seen as 'low' when a null should just
| have no impact on score.
|
| Thanks! Will work on a fix
| __rito__ wrote:
| Happened for my feed as well. It had ZERO political content
| but showed me a fully red bar for lacking political
| diversity. It showed _N /A%_.
| yomismoaqui wrote:
| I made was tired of reading political crap from some accounts I
| follow and created a Chrome extension to filter them out.
|
| Just define topics you don't want to read about and the AI filter
| will hide them from your feed.
|
| Technically is just passing the text to Gemini Flash 1.5 with a
| simple prompt to detect if the tweet is from a forbidden topic.
|
| You can try it here: https://twitter.cercaapp.com
| natdude wrote:
| Oh cool - its like anti-virus for your brain. AI firewall! haha
| sebmellen wrote:
| You saved me from having to make this. Thank you!
|
| Is the source available? Can this be ported to FireFox?
| KTibow wrote:
| There's a surprising number of extensions like this (see
| https://github.com/thomasj02/AiFilter,
| https://unbaited.danielpetho.com/) although it seems most are
| Chrome-exclusive
| sschueller wrote:
| Everyone's x feed is FD. I don't not follow Elon yet his crap
| posts are littering the app when I open it. It's turned into his
| personal bullhorn of miss information and rage bating.
| egeozcan wrote:
| It's crazy how blatant it is. If you block him and his promoted
| bunch, you still get occasional fascist/racist bait on the
| feed. Following feed is also mostly dead because many people I
| followed left.
| electrondood wrote:
| He's either been radicalized by his own platform, or he's
| intentionally being provocative to drive engagement, to drive
| ad revenue. It's disgusting.
|
| The hypocrisy is absurd. Like telling everyone to go fuck
| themselves, and then hours later, pleading for users to post
| more positive content... or making a big show of being worried
| about using AI untruthfully, and then repeatedly posting AI-
| generating images smearing people he doesn't like. Pretending
| like no one had "free speech" until he bought the platform, and
| then selectively banning vocal dissent he doesn't like.
|
| He's a child. Such a waste.
| wsintra2022 wrote:
| He may also have just had an in house AI running his socials
| for the last few years. Surprising not much discussion around
| that as a possibility.
| XorNot wrote:
| Why suggest AI when simply paying a social media manager
| for his twitter account would be a normal thing to have
| done at his level of wealth?
|
| Which is something he has obviously done with his grind-
| centric videogame accounts and actual livestreams of him
| not knowing how to play on those accounts?
| tombert wrote:
| Even if that's true, he's still cosigning the account isn't
| he? He's putting his name on it, it's not weird for people
| to assume that these are his viewpoints and/or opinions, no
| matter how unhinged.
| tbihl wrote:
| FWIW, I can't recall seeing Elon except as retweets. The
| downsides are the bots, the exodus, and the stupid renaming,
| but it's been almost entirely improvement to me.
|
| I was pretty tired of Mastodon and thus happy to return when
| Elon bought it.
|
| ETA: I use a preferred subset of my follows for my main feed, a
| few subject-delineated lists for particular research, and
| occasionally my "following" feed to branch out.
| daghamm wrote:
| You honestly belive Musk does not boost certain tweets?
|
| Do you remember this story??
|
| https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/report-musk-
| had-...
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| > _FWIW, I can 't recall seeing Elon except as retweets._
|
| I had to block his account to not see one of his posts at the
| top of my screen every time I logged in. I was a casual user
| and didn't follow anyone (only started logging in when it was
| impossible to see anything otherwise), so I had what could be
| called the "default" experience.
| anarazel wrote:
| I got Elon tweets in my notifications, despite having him
| blocked. That was the last straw for me.
| ksec wrote:
| Again I use Twitter like RSS feeds where I put those people into
| my list, Hardware, Ruby, Software, Database, Economics etc. If
| you curate your own list and avoid politics it is mostly fine.
|
| I rarely or ever see any promotional tweets.
| iNic wrote:
| I compared by "Following" tab and "For You" Tab and they got a
| pretty similar health score ~40%. It wasn't able to analyze the
| "political diversity" of the Following tab which I will take as a
| win lol. It seems like the "Vibe" Score was slightly better on
| the "Following" and the "Non-Violence" score slightly better on
| "For You". Political Leaning was Center-Left for "Following" and
| Center for "For You".
|
| My takeaways are as follows. First, I would take these with huge
| grains of salt. Second, the political leaning distribution is
| super weird, it is super polarized with a clear lack of
| "centrist" takes. Third, can someone please explain to me what
| "non-violence" is in this context (even the guy who only follows
| are got like 50% on violence??). Fourth, I wish the "vibe"
| section was expanded upon, my issue with the For You Page is that
| it hits the middle point of "slop" and "rage-bait" that lulls you
| into a passive doom-scrolling brain-emptying mooch. The "Vibe"
| here doesn't seem to capture that, and I can't really put my
| finger on what the difference is except for "I know it when I see
| it". Anyways.
|
| PS: You should probably install browser plug-ins that remove the
| for you page! PPS: You should probably switch to Bluesky.
| eska wrote:
| I only have an X account so I can read tweets that are mentioned
| on the news or in blog posts. If I ever look at my timeline I see
| a bunch of AI generated thirst traps.
| _pdp_ wrote:
| I don't need this tool to tell me how f*** Twitter has become. I
| already know that. It is mostly junk, highly politicised (how did
| they allow this to happen after the CA fiasco), and largely
| dysfunctional with pockets of interesting communities here and
| there. Not spending either money or time on it anymore.
| natdude wrote:
| UPDATE:: The uploading function was not working for a large
| number of users - this has now been fixed! (it was an issue with
| the callback URL not being set in the .env which meant file
| upload progress wasn't returned to the client).
|
| If you have attempted to use this previously without success,
| please retry - it should work fine now :)
| electrondood wrote:
| "For You" is an engine designed to provoke an emotional reaction
| (engagement) from you at any cost, to the detriment of your
| mental health. Mine was filled with people getting into fights,
| toxic right-wing misogyny, "karen calling the cops" videos, etc.
|
| Twitter has a perverse financial incentive to capture and hold
| your attention, and negative attention is far easier to provoke.
| templeOSdotcom wrote:
| Isn't that the case for the vast majority of social media?
| peanut-walrus wrote:
| Screen recording and processing because it's easier than just
| scraping now is wild.
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| This way you don't need to trust them with access to your
| phone.
| chikere232 wrote:
| X, such a curious game, the only way to win is not to play
| msravi wrote:
| I use X to mostly follow politics and some math/physics, and the
| political feed in the "For you" tab is remarkably balanced. I
| actually maintain two separate lists called "Left" and "Right"
| that I slot accounts into, and I just go to each list's feed to
| see what each side is saying about something. The "For you" tab
| has a mix, and overall has been pretty well balanced.
| naiv wrote:
| Same. I follow more 'right' and see also balanced left.
|
| Thus I was wondering why people were always talking about hate
| and racism on x.
|
| Bluesky is a different story, there I exclusively see left wing
| content. Full of hate.
| liontwist wrote:
| When you're used to hearing one thing....
| bokoharambe wrote:
| You can keep up the concern troll game as long as you like,
| but all I know is that on old twitter I never had anyone
| calling me the n-word (nor did I see accounts with that word
| as their name) nor could I regularly find gore in the hidden
| comments.
|
| But at least the site is "balanced" now. Lol!
| threeseed wrote:
| It really is unique to everyone and who they follow.
|
| But when the US election came around all of our business For
| You feeds switched to political, far-right content even though
| we are not in the US nor political. And the fact that the EU is
| investigating X for its algorithm changes means at least some
| other people have had the same experience.
| timeon wrote:
| I know that Twitter is US site but I still find it strange when
| people talk about balanced political views and talk only about
| 2-sides. Yes it is one more than in China but still...
| jp57 wrote:
| If I were to use this credulously, I'd be committing the same
| error as believing everything in my X feed.
|
| I have no idea who made this tool or what their biases are, why
| would I believe their analysis any more than I'd believe a
| stranger on X? I can't find any information on who is behind
| this.
|
| The different axes that they uses for analysis (health, political
| balance, "vibe', etc) are all inherently subjective. How are they
| measured?
| refulgentis wrote:
| I very much doubt it even works or tries to, even though a lot
| of barriers have been lifted recently (I'm handwaving at
| https://xkcd.com/1425/ x the input being just a video x output
| sold as rigorous deep analysis)
|
| I have a stroooong feeling this is just a wrapper around
| Gemini, as it has video input.
| 2024user wrote:
| 1-2 min video doesn't feel sufficient. Alternatively, a few
| screenshots uploaded to chatgpt would give the same idea.
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