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I'll ask this question again: Twitter is garbage, why do people discuss important social & political issue there? At best twitter is able to accommodate to 2 op

by nsonha 5y ago

I'll ask this question again: Twitter is garbage, why do people discuss important social & political issue there? At best twitter is able to accommodate to 2 opposing points of view in a "thread" (barely). Most of the times, the so called thread is just a single narrative with very hard to track opposing comments here and there. Forget it if you have more than 2 points of view on the topic. And absolutely nothing nuance can be discussed. I'd like to see a traditional news organization, say NYT, investing in an open forum platform, maybe decentralized, to help informing the public.

fellellor 5y ago
People like garbage. Even if it’s harmful to them. I don’t think people running Twitter are taking one side or the other. Like Facebook, Twitter is simply evil and tries its best to funnel the kind of content to you that would keep you “engaged” and angry. Only know, instead of stupid kids, and jobless schmucks, the people being kept engaged are politicians, influential scholars and journalists who think that nukes are just another type of bomb and nothing to be afraid of.