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by TheAceOfHearts 855 days ago
I saw this earlier today, it was really weird. A pg post showed up in my timeline, so I opened his reply and it said the post to which pg was replying was unavailable [0]. Then I went back and copied the name of the person to which pg replied, and opened his page in order to see both posts [1].

Not really sure about the details, but the lack of transparency around issues of this nature is what bothers me the most. At some point Elon claimed he would be more transparent about accounts receiving limited reach and other such deboosting, but so far it appears to remain pretty opaque.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/mBiBU8W.png

[1] https://i.imgur.com/2WQ7zFv.png

1 comments

Didn’t Twitter supposedly publish the algorithm to let users re-create their feed and notice if Twitter is doing something shady?
No; I can see how one might get that impression from how they advertised that, but no, that's not what they did at all.