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serious question: so where is a better place for users to get news? or share their thoughts? Also, Twitter is more than just politics .. Lots of hobbies share

• shadowgovt 4y ago
  I find a well-curated Reddit to be more reliable these days, but honestly: I try to get most of my news from local sources, with subscriptions to a handful of major papers to get analysis on national or international topics. National or international topics are, I think, best approached via analysis. Most people aren't expert enough to take advantage of primary-source data there, and things at that scale rarely impact one's day-to-day life (national / international things that impact one's day-to-day come in via the emergency broadcast system or, in the case of something like COVID, local and state health ordnances). Far more impactful is who is getting elected to your school board or who is responsible for the condition of your local streets. If I want to understand, say, the war in Afghanistan better, I'm going to try and grab some analysis from some journalists and authors with a track record of being right. Twitter is the opposite of all of that. One-shot, short-snippet bursts of mostly secondary-source information (and the occasional primary). Shallow analysis. Amateur discourse. No track records. And thanks to what has been discovered during this Musk purchase plan, we have come to learn: probably way more bots than Twitter estimates anyway. It's a hole where discourse and rational thought goes to die.