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Most people on Twitter have referred to Twitter as "this hellsite" enough times that I can't say that I think this is anything new. Knowing Twitter is terrible

Most people on Twitter have referred to Twitter as "this hellsite" enough times that I can't say that I think this is anything new. Knowing Twitter is terrible and terrible for you is a prominent part of Twitter culture. There are many memes around the subject.

bombcar 4y ago
A quite large group of people call it a hellsite precisely because there are people on it who disagree with them. The real red pill is realizing it is a hellsite because it is full of people who agree with you.
- enviclash 4y ago
  I wonder if Discord will be one day a sort of "Twitter of Twitters" dealing with all these issues, with some servers focusing on Echo Chambers and other servers on either organized discussions or flame bait.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    It’s already that; we just don’t see it because the servers are default private (not indexed).
- guerrilla 4y ago
  > A quite large group of people call it a hellsite precisely because there are people on it who disagree with them. This very far from my experience. I've pretty much never met an avid Twitter user who doesn't think Twitter is a personal and societal problem. As I said, it's banked into the culture and there are tons of memes about it. You won't even find journalists not speaking in this self-deprecating way...
Mezzie 4y ago
I'd consider them slightly different. "Hellsite" is a pretty common epithet for sites that are the brain version of cotton candy or Taco Bell: Very few people are under the impression that Tumblr or (to show my age) Fanfiction.Net were productive ways to spend their time. But 'hellsite' to me has a connotation of 'is devoid of intellectual/emotional stimulation and challenge' along with 'harmless'. What grandparent commentator is talking about is, to me, more about realizing that Twitter isn't Taco Bell: It's arsenic. Or lead in makeup: Actively, immediately harmful. Not just 'bad for you'.

bombcar 4y ago

A quite large group of people call it a hellsite precisely because there are people on it who disagree with them. The real red pill is realizing it is a hellsite because it is full of people who agree with you.

enviclash 4y ago
I wonder if Discord will be one day a sort of "Twitter of Twitters" dealing with all these issues, with some servers focusing on Echo Chambers and other servers on either organized discussions or flame bait.
- bombcar 4y ago
  It’s already that; we just don’t see it because the servers are default private (not indexed).
guerrilla 4y ago
> A quite large group of people call it a hellsite precisely because there are people on it who disagree with them. This very far from my experience. I've pretty much never met an avid Twitter user who doesn't think Twitter is a personal and societal problem. As I said, it's banked into the culture and there are tons of memes about it. You won't even find journalists not speaking in this self-deprecating way...

Mezzie 4y ago

I'd consider them slightly different. "Hellsite" is a pretty common epithet for sites that are the brain version of cotton candy or Taco Bell: Very few people are under the impression that Tumblr or (to show my age) Fanfiction.Net were productive ways to spend their time. But 'hellsite' to me has a connotation of 'is devoid of intellectual/emotional stimulation and challenge' along with 'harmless'. What grandparent commentator is talking about is, to me, more about realizing that Twitter isn't Taco Bell: It's arsenic. Or lead in makeup: Actively, immediately harmful. Not just 'bad for you'.