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Alright, we appear to have uncovered something with the help of y'all.
Twitter had a featured apparently called "Quality Filter" - this was probably turned on at some point unbeknownst to me once I crossed X-number of followers but was opt-in otherwise.
This was undoubtedly the thing that hid nasty replies and prevented them from showing up in my notifs. And if this wasn't on for you (or you didn't have access) that may explain why my lived experience Over There has been easier than here.
And my complaints are really just about that - quality and volume of replies.
I have received some ugly stuff here, but nothing that is even actionable by moderation. I don't think it's crossed that line. So people saying "just do this!" largely don't understand the scope of the problem. At least, I think that's where we're at now.
What I'm yearning for is a filter to separate signal from noise. Because now everything is signal - which means it's all noise.
@TechConnectify I was thinking it might be sometime like that...
Earlier I was thinking it would be really hard to add an LLM/sentiment analysis layer that beats notifications... But maybe it could be done in the client instead?
Especially given how all the phones have linear algebra coprocessors these days.
@kilpatds It's possible that it could be done client-side, but to be honest I don't just want to be protected from seeing that crap. I also want the mechanism to disincentivize people from sharing it or saying it.
Maybe hiding it is enough, but Twitter's methods kill engagement by hiding that reply for everybody - and honestly I think that's valuable (even if it sometimes causes collateral damage)