I've opted out of social media so you will have to clue me in. (Mainly because of the trolling and the excessive moderation)

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basisword 3 days ago | parent [-]

Twitter is a racist cesspit. I deleted my account a while ago but recently decided to give it another go to follow some sports reporters. The amount of racism, xenophobia and hateful content that gets pushed in front of you is absurd. I imagine huge amounts of racism is a turn off for people that aren't white.

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l72 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Allowing every drive by commentator is a huge mistake in building an actual community. Communities are built by people invested in the platform.

In the early to mid aughts I was part of couch surfing. It had a lot of purpose built in friction and it created an amazing tight knit group of people that I still consider my best friends. Once the pressure from Airbnb and investment money caused them to remove that, it became terrible.

Sometime never growing a community over a small group of invested people is the right choice.

The same thing happened with NextDoor. When it was small and just involved a few hundred people in your immediate neighborhood there was a real community on there. Then the kept expanding the size and now you have people that live no where in your community ruining the experience for everyone.

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fastball 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are you implying that white people are the most racist group of people (when classifying by skin color)?

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basisword 2 days ago | parent [-]

I don't imply that at all. No idea how you came to that conclusion.

	▲	fastball 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> I imagine huge amounts of racism is a turn off for people that aren't white. Please explain what you mean by this then?

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bilbo0s 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, this is gonna cause more and more segregation in online spaces.

Sucks, but I guess this is why we can't have nice things.

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basisword 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The fact my experience has been downvoted speaks volumes of the current state of online discourse.