DirkC

An IT guy, father, husband

[DirkC @DCTS]

Connect the dots people...

The REAL Kim was very proud of his family and posted video's and pics of himself with his family regularly

After his return on @x after being ill he never once mentions his family again and has turned from pro-Trump to Anti-Trump

RIP real #Kimdotcom

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

8 million Americans demonstrated against Trump today. The biggest demonstration in US history.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

5 years ago the number one story in the world was the death of George Floyd.

We now know that Floyd was a career criminal junkie who died of a fentanyl overdose while resisting arrest and committing crimes.

But they told you at the time that George Floyd was killed by 'institutional racism' and 'police brutality.'

It was a lie -- but the media amplified the lie infinitely and made Floyd a household name.

Now we witness the death of Henry Nowak, who really did *actually* die because of institutional racism and police brutality.

MEDIA: Silence.

They don't care because the victim is white. The only real institutional racism that exists in the West is against white people.

Henry was stabbed in the neck FIVE TIMES by an indian migrant, carrying a "religious blade," claiming that Henry was being 'mean' to him so he deserved to die.

Then the police left Henry to bleed out in the streets while handcuffed and coddling the migrant killer and his family.

This is worse than the George Floyd story, and its all true.

Henry deserves the same justice and reverence that was incorrectly awarded to George Floyd. He may not get the headlines, but Henry will spark a Revolution all the same.

[Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar]

Patriots, we reached our milestone of 100,000 signatures in a mere two days.
The time for Remigration is now, and the process of filing the @SaveEuropeAct starts today.

Together with @MartinSellner_ and five other European initiators, we will formally submit the Act to the @EU_Commission.

Now we need your help more than ever.

Help us reach one million signatures on our campaign page and give this initiative real political weight before it even reaches Brussels. With your support, we will make it impossible for them to ignore us.

P.S. Don’t worry if you haven’t received the confirmation email yet. Your signature still counts. We’re fixing it!

[DirkC @DCTS]

I signed the Save Europe Act. You should sign it too. https://t.co/Or6yHFApQR

[DirkC @DCTS]

@SamvanRooy1 wordt het niet eens tijd om de EU gesponsorde ngo's die ze hier brengen te exposen ipv het resultaat, dat hebben we ondertussen al 1000 keer gezien

[DirkC @DCTS]

En dit is al 4 jaar lang jullie MO @vrtnws @VTMNIEUWS @V_of_Europe @HLN_BE etc etc en dan gaat het nog enkel maar over deze oorlog... en nog verbaasd zijn dat we jullie op geen enkel vlak nog serieus nemen

Bij mij echter is het blinddoek al sinds 2016 gevallen mbt "gekaderd nieuws"

[Steven Eugene Kuhn @StevenEKuhn]

Russia hit Kyiv.
1 killed. 20 injured.
Global outrage.

48 hours earlier:

UKRAINE struck a UKRAINIAN university, 21 dead UKRAINIANS.

One story told.
One story hidden.

https://t.co/oPMlK6ZsBF

24 May 2026

#TAB #leadwhereyoulive #ukraine #russia #kiev @joerogan @patrickbetdavid @ShawnRyan762

[DirkC @DCTS]

@LionelMedia for a nation that loves it's horor movie culture you act like real pussies in this performance act

[DirkC @DCTS]

@TheLucyShow1 all these feel good vids are sooo fake, can't believe so many af you fall for this, prob his own house and dog

[DirkC @DCTS]

what else is planned in Bulgaria in 2027 that might be of interest to the EU that they need them to win?

no coincidences

#elections

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇧🇬 BREAKING: Bulgaria's DARA wins Eurovision 2026 with "Bangaranga."

Israel came 2nd despite 5 countries boycotting the event entirely over its participation.

Bulgaria's first Eurovision win in history.

[DirkC @DCTS]

@1PlanBNFT @elonmusk when you see it, this looks like the Cinese Marco Rubio 😅

[TruthSeeker01011 @TruthSeek01011]

They are building this Hantavirus up exactly the same as Covid-19, the boat I bet is empty, what they release into the public will be something different from Hantavirus.

[Paul White Gold Eagle @PaulGoldEagle]

Who did this!!!! 🤣😂🤣😂

[Kentucky Girl @Notwokenow]

This. Is. Terrifying.

This technology should NEVER be allowed to be used.

Ford can fvck right off and so can the Congress members who voted to put this tech in vehicles starting in 2027.

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦The BIGGEST Propaganda War of All Time

🚨The Fighting is Real.

🚨Everything we've Been Told About it is Basically a Lie.

🚨How the Ukraine WAR Started

Former Delta Force commander Pete Blaber tells Americans the truth about the WAR of Ukraine.

The State Department and CIA, non-elected officials,
along with their counterparts in the EU, Ukrainian politicians and, George Soros' Open Society Foundation, along with the neo-Nazi ultranationalists,
created the fake Maidan protests.

The neo-Nazis controlled the five key ministries of the Ukrainian government to include the Ministry of Defense, John O. Brennan, was the head of CIA then. He flew in the day after they overthrew the, Yanukovych government, met with the head of the Ukrainian intelligence and the head of MI6, and the very next day, they began the ethnic war on eastern Ukraine, which was really, one of the great or one of the most horrific humanitarian, violations in modern history.

Ethnic cleansing began in between 2014 and 2021.

Fourteen thousand, (14 000) ethnic Russian civilians were killed in eastern Ukraine, and most of them by artillery, mortar, and, you know, drone attacks.

[JukeBox @JukeBoxNonStop]

Mindblowing perfect! So intense and emotional. #Radiohead

[BLΛC @blac_ai]

I sent an AI agent swarm to read the X algo source code.

What they found shocks and confuses me.

First, I want to be clear about why I'm posting this.

Four years on this platform. 60,000+ followers. I've shown up every day since I started. And over the last three months, I've watched my reach drop 40%+, off a cliff, and I haven't changed ANYTHING; I am extremely consistent, disciplined, and focused on what I do and how I do it.

What bothers me in addition to my own numbers is that Artists I used to see constantly, I never see anymore.

People that I look forward to seeing what they're creating... one day they disappear from my feed.

I assume they left.

Nope, still here. Still posting. Multiple times a day. Just completely invisible to me now. And presumably me to them.

This is happening to a lot of us.

I've tried to figure out why and how to fix it. Post more. Post less. Different times. Everything has hurt my account. I'm frustrated, tired, and tbh, straight up losing interest.

So... I had my AI agent, Mai, spin up a research swarm last night; a multitude of specialized sub-agents pointed at every line of X's open-source algorithm.

Every file. Every filter. Every module they've made public. Literally.

I wanted to know exactly how to see this from the perspective of a creative here, from an artist, and not from a content consumer which is what literally every other post about the algo is focused on.

What follows is what they found.

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⭕️ TLDR; 5 things we all should be aware of:

1. Our follower count does nothing for our reach anymore.

2. The algorithm decides how many people see our posts based on a PREDICTION, before anyone has seen it.

3. Posting too much hurts us. Posting too little also hurts us. (Really)

4. Every time we repost another artist's work, the algorithm buries it.

5. Our posts are gone from the system after 48 hours. Nothing from 3 days ago is being shown to anyone. You start from zero every 48 hours.

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⏬ Going deeper on those 5...

1. Your Follower Count is just a Display Number

Buried in the codebase: "author_followers_count" is pulled through a service called "Gizmoduck" and passed to the tweet entity service for display only.

Not fed into any scorer. Anywhere in the system.

100,000 followers. 1000 followers.
Same starting point in "Phoenix", the new system.

Years building an audience on this platform? That audience, as a signal to the algorithm, is worth nothing now apparently.

What travels with your posts is PREDICTED engagement, a score based on your content and historical signals, regardless of how many people chose to follow you.

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2. "The Prediction Trap"

This is the one that actually broke my brain.

Before your post reaches anyone, "Phoenix" scores it across 19 "prediction heads"; 19 different things it's trying to predict about how people will behave.

Let me repeat.

❗️THE ALGO IS PREDICTING HOW MUCH ENGAGEMENT YOU WILL GET, AND ASSIGNS REACH BASED ON IT.❗️

WHICH IS A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY!

Some of the 19 metrics:
favorite_score — will someone like this
reply_score — will someone reply
dwell_score — will someone pause on it (binary)
dwell_time — how long will they pause (continuous, two separate signals)
photo_expand_score — will someone expand the image
not_interested / report — negative signals

The prediction determines reach...

It actually decides if the post will get reach, by predicting... reach? how does this make any sense. It's not determined by merit of the post. It's determined by wether or not the algo thinks it will get reach, thus giving it reach.

Phoenix PREDICTS low engagement.
Shows the post to fewer people.
Fewer people means fewer chances for engagement. Prediction validates itself. Post gets suppressed.
+
Phoenix PREDICTS high engagement.
Bigger distribution. More chances.
Prediction validates itself.
Post gets pushed further.

The prediction drives distribution. Content quality is secondary. And the prediction is built on your account's recent historical signals.

If your reach has been declining, Phoenix is PREDICTING it will keep declining, AND actively making that happen by restricting your distribution.

ie; A great piece posted on an account with declining engagement gets a small test group, underperforms in that group, gets confirmed as low-value. Even if it's the best thing they've ever made.

The algorithm creates the outcome it predicted.

And for anyone who's been in a decline, getting out requires overcoming a system that's actively betting against you.

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3. "The Volume Trap"

"AuthorDiversityScorer" applies exponential decay every time you appear in the same follower's feed session. Each additional post from you in a single session scores lower than the last.

- Post at 9am, noon, 7pm.
- A follower opens X at noon.
- They see your midday post.
- Your 9am post, still alive, is now decayed because you already appeared in their session.
- Your 7pm post decays further.

❗️The more you post, the less each post reaches.

So you post less...
Impressions drop anyway, because low activity reads as a dormant account. The "per-author" caps governing this are redacted from the public code.

Post too much = decay.
Post too little = dormancy.

The band where things work is narrow, undisclosed, and different for every account.

This is absolutely absurd.
And impossible for people to navigate.

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4. The New Repost Penalty

April 12, 2026. X announced a crackdown on aggregators.

Reposts of other people's work: up to 90% impression deduction. On that specific repost.

To be clear: NOT on your account.
On each individual original post.
Lots of mis-info out about this.

Every time you share another artist's work because you believed in it, because community means showing up for each other... The algorithm buried it.

90% visibility cut. Gone.

BUT Self-reposting your own work is different.

X uses a "Bloom filter" that resets at the end of each session. "RetweetDeduplicationFilter" only drops self-reposts for followers who already saw the original in that same session.

A follower opening the app at midnight hasn't seen your morning post in their current session. It reaches them fresh.

The rule: sharing someone else's work = buried.
Sharing your own = viable.

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5. 48 Hours and... It's GONE.

"Thunder" is X's in-memory post store. It auto-trims every 2 minutes. Retention window: 48 hours.

After 48 hours your post is gone from the candidate pool. The algorithm can't serve it to anyone. The idea that consistent posting lets your older content keep circulating is wrong at the architecture level. You're starting from zero every two days.

Thunder also maintains per-author caps on how many of your posts can be in the candidate pool at once. Those values are redacted.

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🫠 How our habits are hurting us:

For years the advice was: show up every day, post on a schedule, build the habit. The accounts that did that built audiences. That consistency was proof of commitment.

The "AuthorDiversityScorer" punishes it.

The daily schedule that built your following now means your posts are competing with each other instead of adding value.

The disciplined consistency the old platform rewarded is now what triggers exponential decay under the new one.

Let that sink in❗️

The platform changed the rules. The habits we built under the old rules are working against us under the new ones. And no one said anything about it.

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📤 A Note about/to Nikita & the X Team:

Nikita Bier and the algo team at X are building for consumers. The changes make sense from that angle: algorithmic feeds, crackdowns on low-quality reposts, pushing formats that generate comments and replies. If your goal is to show the people scrolling a better experience, this logic tracks.

That might even be the right goal. I could argue that with a certain perspective.

However... there's a side of the equation they're seemingly not accounting for: the creators who supply the content that makes the platform worth scrolling in the first place.

For artists specifically, this has been a demolition job.

The art was always supposed to be the value. That's what we spent years building. That's what the audiences came for. The current algorithm doesn't reward that natively anymore. It rewards high comment probability.

The result is people like me spinning up AI agent swarms to read source code just to understand why our reach is gone.

Creators running diagnostics on a platform they used to just create on... is ridiculous.

I don't think this is the intent. But it's the outcome regardless.

You can optimize the consumption experience all you want. If the people making things stop showing up because the game is too rigged, there's nothing left to consume.

The creator side of the algorithm needs a voice in these decisions. Right now it doesn't have one.

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I sent agents to read the code because I was tired of not knowing the rules. Tired of watching reach disappear. Tired of looking for accounts I used to see every day and finding out they're still there, still creating, just invisible.

Understanding all this doesn't fix anything, ironically.

But at least now I know what I'm working with.

They built the algo well.

Just not for us.

It's built for the masses, engagement farming, rage baiting, fear baiting, and overall 2026 end-of-days pvp slop and brain rotted doom scrollers.

I don't know what else to tell you, or how to operate with any of this, and trust me, I get how insane and confusing a lot of this is. It numbing. Tiring.. and just.. Idk.

Regardless, I hope this helps in whatever way it can.

-BLAC

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Attached:
1 - screenshot of my death spiral analytics
2 - Summary report on agent swarm findings
3 - the prediction trap, visualized
4 - snippets from the public X algo repo with notes

[DirkC @DCTS]

For those who haven't figured it out yet..

Connect the dots people...
The REAL Kim was very proud of his family and posted video's and pics of himself with his family regularly.

After his return on @x after being ill he never once mentions his family again and has turned from pro-Trump to Anti-Trump

RIP real #Kimdotcom

[God & Country @GodandCountryy]

🤣😂🤣

[DirkC @DCTS]

@torfsrik ik heb hem nog nooit als 1e iemand weten belachelijk maken, zijn retoriek is wat het is en vaak ook verdient, al zit er ook wat show bij is nu eenmaal zijn stijl.
I love it

[DirkC @DCTS]

@HazelAppleyard always new the back of the moon was an apple 😂