| ▲ | spiderfarmer 9 hours ago |
| Man. I logged in to Twitter the other day and it’s now 100% unfiltered racist fear mongering and nazi propaganda. Truly frightening. And I can’t believe people still consider it a useful platform. |
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| ▲ | an0malous 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Network effects are powerful, it’s still the “town square” of the world |
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| ▲ | flipgimble 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It’s more accurately the “truck stop bathroom wall” of the world under new management. | | |
| ▲ | nomel 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | To be fair, the world is a truck stop bathroom, on average. |
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| ▲ | reactordev 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Dubious claim now | |
| ▲ | Forgeties79 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Town squares have an implied equal access to the floor. Twitter favors certain political and social ideologies. |
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| ▲ | nathanaldensr 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No, it's not 100% anything. The content you're looking at is what you see. |
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| ▲ | rasz 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes, and what you see is decided by algorithm designed to radicalize you. | |
| ▲ | amitav1 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't know why you're getting downvoted for this, but it's the same thing for me. The For You tab is a cesspool, but if you stick to the Following tab and unfollow anybody who says pretty much anything political, it's actually a pretty nice platform. | | |
| ▲ | earthnail 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Reads a bit like “nah if you ignore the main streets and just walk on the paths that you like you’re safe from crime in your neighbourhood.” I find it crazy that we accept this madness on social media. | | |
| ▲ | amitav1 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I feel like it's more "if you don't sprint through the middle of the freeway and instead cross at the crosswalk, you're safe from cars". Also, there's not some genie sprinkling fairy dust on all of the political posts that's making them go up to the top, it's because that's what most people interact the most with. If you have atypical tastes (as most people on this website do), then you shouldn't be surprised when content tailored for typical tastes do not fit your tastes. After enough time on Twitter, even the For You becomes a bit better, with only occasional political posts. | |
| ▲ | irishcoffee 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | vkou 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | We don't accept it on the street either, and if you think that's what Main Street looks like, you either live in Memphis, an active warzone, or you need to turn off the telly. | | |
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| ▲ | nephihaha 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I agree with your comment about the "for you" tab. It is really the death of Twitter. Like Faecebook and YouTube, much of their suggested content is suss. | |
| ▲ | kstrauser 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I signed up for a new account a month ago for a specific purpose, and the default timeline was full of literal Nazi crap, like dumb 1488 references, and blaming weather on Jews, and other bullshit like that. I did absolutely nothing to get that. I signed up and that’s what it showed me until I went on a spree of blocking stuff. |
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| ▲ | nradov 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I logged into X right now and saw zero racist fear mongering or Nazi propaganda. You're probably following the wrong type of accounts. |
