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Nate’s move a few years ago from being data centric (now more of a hobby) to be a pundit/poker player has aspects of Greek tragedies where your sight is restored but you can’t recognize your family.

It's giving "I never thought the leopards would eat my face" vibes. For ANYONE who thinks they are going to be some kind of special over at the former bird app, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell them.

Feature, not a bug…

They did "fix the algo" It's calked Bluesky.

We've had empirical evidence that twitter was actively suppressing progressives and amplifying far right voices for over a year now.

No.

More like, “hmmm, yeah Nate, that’s a feature, not a bug. What do you think I paid for?”

Nate silver absolutely refusing to understand that nyt getting no engagement is the point

astonishing to me how naive Nate Silver is. shouldn’t at this point surprise but it does.

I was kinda proud that my old ass doesn't know who any of these people are. Then I saw James Woods. Is that the actor? He was always a conservative crank. Is he big in Fascist circles now? Weird.

Nate Silver cucking himself daily, sign me up.

The best part is the pat on the back that his “intuition “ was right

ahahahaha - empathy. it's not a drug, unfortunately. hopefully Nate and Ezra can have this awakening together and do something about it?

The answer is not to stay in the Nazi bar. Too many people clinging to memories and allowing themselves to be used by Musk.

Well sure, ideological polarization driven to its logical conclusion would be bad. Or at least, that would be true if there were only two apps and both were equivalent opposites and if both polarized populations sought out incorrect information to reject reality but that’s not the case.

No, but Elon drove most of us off Twitter by deciding he wanted a right-wing hothouse.

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Maybe Free Press will investigate

seriously like everyone was saying this years ago, he's just now putting it together?

the social media suggestion algorithms have shadow-banned external links for a over decade and one could barely hear the press complain about the censorship because the social media suggestion algorithms have shadow-banned external links for a over decade

Umm, something else I noticed on that chart... Dave Portnoy and Russia Today are "neutral"? 😒

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bsky.app/profile/park...

The new trend, with owners everywhere is to stomp on you with their boot if you complain. You have to leave their platform, and solve your problem, then find other ways to share your work. I can easily push a story to 200 people who will read it, it is not that hard.

It's nice to know NYT is treated proportionally to my independent news site. Yes, ALL #Mastodon is worse. There, it depends upon the story, and they have there own self proclaimed stars who came from nowhere and are featured on every Mastodon instance. Each featured commentator is a propagandist.

Lol

I like that his idea of a “good fair story was that piece of stenography turned into Fanfic.

"X the everything BUT your lame ass app."

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I didn’t think the leopard would eat *my* face

Man, he is thisclose to getting it

He’s Scott Adams but with statistical modeling knowledge.

Nate Silver has a lot of issues, but the one that overrules all the rest is that he is naive enough to still believe Elon is (or is capable of) acting in good faith.

He's so close to getting it

Also guy who responded to "Elon is going to muffle news sources" with "you're making it up."

Common over to Bluesky Nate, I'm sure you'll be really popular over here

Silver is a great example of the efficacy of the phrase, "stay in your lane." He should have stuck to polling and sports.

…and who helped usher in the anti-woke ethos that was really only ever about elevating these nutjobs in the first place.

It’s a walled garden and nearly all of the plants are poisonous.

Libs of TikTok somewhat quiet on the Epstein files lately.

It’s disgusting that someone like Gunther Eagleman is minting money off X engagement.

Twitter is the Daily Stormer of social media. There… fixed it. #ProveMeWrongMAGA

I’m shocked and outraged

Elon buddy Peter Thiel literally wrote that freedom and democracy are not ‘compatible’ and that regulating Big Tech is the work of the ‘anti-Christ’. We should stop treating this as metaphor. When billionaires tell us they want to end democracy, we should take them seriously.

Nothing frustrates me more than this. Yes, the number of followers will drop on Bluesky, BUT you're engagement goes way up. You're not reaching as many people as you think on X. Just abandon it already.

Poetic?

Centrism has powerful blind spots. He may really be dumb.

Poor Nate. He didn't think the leopards would come for him, too.

News: blind squirrel finds nut

well at least he gets a million ads for his one true love - gambling, on X the Everything App/Site

one thing the people who defend staying on twitter because of their follower count there never seem to address is how meaningless that figure is. the nytimes has 53 million followers but how many of those are bots or just ghost accounts or people who haven’t checked that app in years

bsky.app/profile/lord...

I don't think he'll ever come here. Threads on the other hand...

He has been for a while, but he always ends it with, “but Bluesky is bad because they’re just sooooo crazy and stuff.”

Billionaire lover Nate Silver pointing out something that hurts billionaire Musk’s feelings is a bit suspicious. What’s he up to?

It was so obvious, me, a random person, deleted my Twitter account the day after the sale went through.

It's a bit hilarious imagining Nate Silver now jumping up and down and shouting "no fair!" about this, a situation far from new.

How Nate Silver Got His Spots

Dave Portnoy as neutral is hilarious

We don't want Nate Silver here either, but I'm happy for him that his face is being eaten by leopards.

Also, coming from the guy who went full COVID-19 skeptic who dismissed tons of legitimate reporting because it disagreed with his weird lab leak obsession, still being on the Nazi bird app and finding it full of loons who hate facts is deeply ironic.

If you’re a Dem on X you’re just paying Elon to turn you into a RWinger. Recent studies show that ppl who stay on X move farther to the right. FWIW over here @bsky.app www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I, for one, am shocked that Nate Silver failed to predict another thing.

But the village, and the river. And something, something the river!

Of course the Times still being on X is sad in and of itself.

My theory of "journalists are always ten years behind leftists" will never be proven wrong.

nate silver: "the [twitter] ecosystem is broken" also nate silver: "how do magicians put two halves of a body back together again?"

Lumping in all of the far-right and fascist accounts dominating that hellsite as "right-leaning" is definitely on brand with Silver's longtime project to normalize far-right extremism.

For a supposedly “smart” dude he’s such a fecking eejit

They're handing out "fell for it again" awards like candy these days

If all those “legitimate” news sources would just move over to Bluesky, things would be much better for everyone.

Also, Nate Silver is proving once again that he's a fucking idiot. Christ. How stupid do you have to be to lay it all out like this and open yourself up to ridicule like this? It's hilarious. To quote Bugs Bunny: WHAT A MAROON!

“Shouldn’t you work on a better algo?” Based on that chart, the algo is working perfectly.

People go there to be outraged, not informed. Hot take, I know. 😀

Dude's just mad his bubble isn't bigger

Nate Silver is an idiot, and he's been an idiot for a very long time

Nate Silver: Chat i think the guy who bought the casino and said im going to make this a nazi casino with games rigged for my friends may have then turned my beloved casino into a nazi casino with games rigged against me, or maybe im mistaken?

Guy in a mostly liberal social milieu who fancies himself a heterodox thinker gravitates toward right-wing sources/platforms to demonstrate his independence from doctrinaire liberalism, but wants to pretend that they aren't actually right-wing. Many such cases.

I’m not saying it’s necessarily what’s happening but if there’s one guy who’d be likely to think to himself “I can cynically ignore its problems and ride this site’s influence as long as possible and then noisily get out just before the crash,” well…

The main issue with quitting x is all the banking i do on there

"She accused Musk of exposing his erect p enis to her, rubbing her leg without consent, and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage, according to interviews and documents obtained by Insider." www.businessinsider.com/spacex-paid-...

So close to getting it

data man relies on intuition, fails

As someone who only stays on X because almost none of the beat writers for my sports teams have made the move, the common refrain I hear from those who respond to me is they have built up too much of an audience over on X to ever abandon it for Bluesky.

I don’t think we can ignore the possibility that they haven’t left because they prefer Nazis over liberals

"I'm tired of things changing all the time for no good reason." "Okay, but the thing that you're not changing from has itself changed, and it certainly was not for any reason you could call 'good'." "But MAH NUMBAS"

Thanks for being here , there is not enough Canadian content !

Well yeah. On twitter they get away without being dogpiled because they talk to bots and fascists all day and ultimately serve their interests. But they can't do it here because we call them out for their bullshit, and that makes them uncomfortable completely unserious people

Silver is paid to attack any perceived threat to Thiel. Everything that dude says was already bought and paid for … his stats no longer measure anything, they are tools for him to use to twist a narrative. He’s all noise and no signal.

Just looking off that post, for the same engagement numbers, they got roughly 2/3 of the engagement here with 1/50 of the followers. That’s kind of insane.

They need to know that many of the people they'd like to reach are now HERE--and no longer THERE. So they really should have a presence HERE as well as THERE. Do we actually have to spell it out for them? Maybe we do!

there's a lot of hand-wringing about a lack of politeness on here that drives them off but the general reality is that both apps have groups that are in control and want to be pandered to and news orgs (and their most vocal contributors) have *chosen* which ones they'd rather pander to

This is a pure guess, but at some point on Twitter I read that big accounts had a special 'replies' tab that the rest of us didn't have. Maybe he could more easily just read replies from people he follows for example, whereas at Bluesky he is seeing everybody's responses all mixed together.

Silvers lament that it’s harder to find useful and objective information on a textual site, and yet seems to demand that a central feature of an ideal version of such a site be “it’s mostly people who are nice to me and with whom I agree.” This reeks of someone who believes they cannot be wrong.

cowardice.

"muh follower counts"

Because they’re fine with what Xitter is. People generally do exactly what they wanna do.

I think that's it too. Having a ton of followers gives your ego a boost.

Because…

One thing I find interesting is that the top accounts on X are almost all highly political. One thing I like about bluesky is that the top accounts are a mix of political people, creators, celebrities and just goofy people with cute cats.