RatCreature's Journal

I'm contemplating whether I shouldn't put the effort in to make myself a "eating popcorn" icon because of the Twitter mess, after years of deciding that I don't need one for online kerfuffles etc., because I tend to just miss drama, and then my "under a rock" one works when I catch up eventually.

I mean, I barely had time to notice the hastily introduced new "official" check marks, before reading a tweet that apparently they got killed again not a day later? But clearly this train wreck overall will go on for a while...

I don't use Twitter to post but I follow a couple of people, only my reading feed sometimes doesn't show all tweets and I don't know why.

I have set it to "Latest" so Twitter should show things to me in chronological order, yet just now of the last three links to goodreads reviews an author I follow posted, I see only one in my feed, even though I see all three when I go to their Twitter directly. I only noticed because one of the two reviews was actually shown to me earlier, but then when I went back to my feed after reading it on goodreads it was gone from my Twitter feed. Then I checked the poster's Twitter directly and discovered that tweet and the second one that are there, but not in my feed when I refresh it. I remember noticing something similar when I noticed tweets missing when I visited Twitter on different devices. I don't use their app, but view logged in, in a browser, regardless whether I view on a laptop or a mobile device, if that makes a difference.

Is there some reason for this weird behavior? Can I stop Twitter from doing this to me, or do I just have to live with a randomly incomplete reading page?

Thanks to goss' invite I'm now namesquatting at Imzy, a new platform that is sort of like reddit but with some setup changes that are supposed to discourage trolling. I'm not sure how similar the interface is because I never got a reddit account and rarely even read threads there, but apparently it was created by some ex-reddit guy.

Also on Imzy there is some inbuilt system that makes it possible to pay/tip for posters'/moderators' content, which is intended to eventually finance the thing by Imzy getting some cut of those transactions, instead of having advertising? But I'm not really clear on that.

It doesn't seem very large yet, e.g. when during the sign-up process I searched for communities based on my interests there wasn't even one for pet rats yet and not many fandom ones either, but maybe it'll take off.

Anyway, now in turn I have five invites, so if you want one to check out that site, comment with your email. (Or if you don't want to give your email in public, comment and then PM me the address through DW or such -- I didn't set comments to screened because then you can't see whether five others have commented already.)