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You can't fix social problems with technical solutions. Twitter is by design a melting pot of opinions because of it's global access to anything, which is good
by slightwinder 6y ago
You can't fix social problems with technical solutions.
Twitter is by design a melting pot of opinions because of it's global access to anything, which is good and bad in it's own ways. Until this design changes, there is not much you can improve on fundamental levels. And any fundamental change would mean for twitter to stop being twitter. Then you could also just switch to your personal forum, blog, discord or whatever controlled safespace you prefer for your content.
Thouhg, this was with twitter always the case, it's nothing really new. Maybe it's your perception which changed, or your bubble which has moved? Maybe you are at the point of being "to old for this shit" now?
- caminmccluskey 6y agoThanks for your thoughts, Twitter is a melting pot, and that's a fantastic thing. I would probably agree that fundamental social problems can't be "fixed" by technical solutions. However Twitter (in particular) seems to exacerbate out of group bias
- slightwinder 6y agoIt's not Twitter in particular. The same happens on reddit, facebook, youtube and any other place where enough peoplle gather to voice their opinions. Before twitter the same happend in usenet and smaller webforums. After twitter the same will happen in whatever global space will be envogue then. The only real way to fix it is to not give people any space at all, otherwise hate will always find it's way. Anything else is just patching details and managing tradeoffs between advantages and disadvantages.