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I am currently having as situation where my replies aren't even seen under "probable spam." They just aren't being shown at all.

The tricky, shady part is there is no notification of this and to the user (myself) it looks like my posts are...posting. There is no indication that I'm being hidden, no one ever told me anything. It just doesn't show my posts at all to other people which is BS in my opinion and no way to run a social media platform.

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You're exactly right. The "probable spam" and "offensive content" areas are really just trash cans that X's censorship system uses to hide messages from users who have been secretly silenced. I wrote a lot about it on my stack.

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Here is an example I posted under my account: https://x.com/MturkThrowaway/status/1817251092713087160

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This isn't that accurate. The tweets after 'Show more replies'/'Probable spam' have always been labeled as "LowQuality". Those in the next section are labeled as "AbusiveQuality". The other tweets - the ones above 'Show more replies' are labeled a "HighQuality". Twitter has been smearing millions of their users each day but no one else outside Twitter besides me knew about it because they couldn't do something as simple as look at Twitter's AJAX.

In any case, their algorithm has always been incredibly flawed; more times than not it gets things wrong. E.g., just yesterday I looked a replies to Musk. On one tweet, someone had left about a dozen worthless meme tweets, all of which were labeled as "HighQuality". I keep seeing merch spammers. They even use the same lingo, but Musk is too grossly incompetent to pick up on that.

To understand what's really going on, see the description of my "More Speech" application on Github.

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Hi, I'm an admirer of your work. I have a 'stack devoted to censorship on X, and I'm currently still trying to get the word out. Please let me know if you'd like to collaborate.

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I noticed this today too. And it's not just my first time posted, fire memes - today a very large account posted a video of a heavy woman running out of the bushes with no pants, into traffic and jumping into the back of a truck. Most of the replies were crass and racist - like "doctor or engineer?". Or stupid unrelated crap. And I said something to the effect of - 'hey people, don't assume anything about the poor woman - she's likely escaping a sexual assault'. Not even there when I check with my alt account. It's sick.

I am struggling hard. I am so deep in debt it isn't funny. I made a great meme in late January about JD Vance and the "I don't Really Care Margaret" - like the next day after it happened. It seemed to go almost viral on every page but my own. Some person commented it - some representative made a Youtube short and gets 50,000 likes - people all in the comments begging for the shirt. I created a shirt and threw it up on Etsy because I already have a 5 star store there that until now, only sold digital art. And because X is sh8tting on me, no one sees it.

I am depressed and dejected because I can barely even afford the account. And they want me to pay them more to advertise?

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I meant to be replying to you @bstoney

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