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I still don’t get it. Why would I want to talk to my friends in public? In a medium specifically designed to propagate out-of-context sound bites? Surrounded by

by wrs 4y ago

I still don’t get it. Why would I want to talk to my friends in public? In a medium specifically designed to propagate out-of-context sound bites? Surrounded by trolls of all ideologies? I stopped posting anything on Twitter because there was nothing to say that’s worth the risk.

criddell 4y ago
Twitter is sometimes the best way to reach customer service people who can actually help you with your problem. For me, that's my number one use case.
lupire 4y ago
Because public is easy. You don't have to make coordinate plans of who to include where and when. Twitter is like a pub that people are always at.
Underphil 4y ago
Yeah, I hear you. I do get Twitter but am still not interested in what it offers. To each their own, I say.
incomingpain 4y ago
My first account was infosec twitter, I mostly would comment with positivity and was utterly ignored. So I let that account go away. After Elon made the offer to buy twitter because of censorship I created a new account to test to see if I get censored. I never said anything at all. I was busy liking or following people at first but I connected to my country's politicians and that was enough for me to be shadowbanned. >I stopped posting anything on Twitter because there was nothing to say that’s worth the risk. To me it's not so much risk. If you're a platform who ideally wants to maximize activity on the platform. Censoring me because of world-view is really bad. Why would I waste my time commenting while shadowbanned? I just uninstall and stop.
- smw 4y ago
  Doesn't the term 'shadowbanned' mean that your posts are just invisible to other users, without them telling you that? How would you know if you never posted anything?
  - incomingpain 4y ago
    Open a private window against a tweet you responded to. You'll see if your post is visible or not. There are also shadowban tester websites. https://shadowban.yuzurisa.com/ https://shadowban.yuzurisa.com/

by wrs 4y ago

criddell 4y ago

Twitter is sometimes the best way to reach customer service people who can actually help you with your problem. For me, that's my number one use case.

lupire 4y ago

Because public is easy. You don't have to make coordinate plans of who to include where and when. Twitter is like a pub that people are always at.

Underphil 4y ago

Yeah, I hear you. I do get Twitter but am still not interested in what it offers. To each their own, I say.

incomingpain 4y ago

My first account was infosec twitter, I mostly would comment with positivity and was utterly ignored. So I let that account go away. After Elon made the offer to buy twitter because of censorship I created a new account to test to see if I get censored. I never said anything at all. I was busy liking or following people at first but I connected to my country's politicians and that was enough for me to be shadowbanned. >I stopped posting anything on Twitter because there was nothing to say that’s worth the risk. To me it's not so much risk. If you're a platform who ideally wants to maximize activity on the platform. Censoring me because of world-view is really bad. Why would I waste my time commenting while shadowbanned? I just uninstall and stop.

smw 4y ago
Doesn't the term 'shadowbanned' mean that your posts are just invisible to other users, without them telling you that? How would you know if you never posted anything?
- incomingpain 4y ago
  Open a private window against a tweet you responded to. You'll see if your post is visible or not. There are also shadowban tester websites. https://shadowban.yuzurisa.com/ https://shadowban.yuzurisa.com/