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Do you really feel like the people posting NSFW are somehow chasing people off of Twitter? I 100% know they exist, but when I scroll through my feed on Twitter

by saurik 4y ago

Do you really feel like the people posting NSFW are somehow chasing people off of Twitter? I 100% know they exist, but when I scroll through my feed on Twitter I don't see any of it, so I don't understand how it could possibly bother me... I think the better theory is that small snippets of text was always a dumb format for these key oft-visual interests of news and fashion, and thereby the entire platform only made sense for a short period of time while there weren't high quality channels to share images and video, which Twitter supports (as they couldn't NOT) but really sucks at in comparison to Instagram and TikTok. (I feel a need to point out the obvious here, just in case, though I hope no one finds this confusing: the NSFW people are also going to clearly be heavily interested in photos and video, but they are simply banned from the other platforms and so put up with Twitter's horrible media sharing capabilities as they have no other choice.)

ivraatiems 4y ago
It's not the mere fact of their existence that would drive people away, necessarily. It's that as other high-activity users leave, your recommendations are either gonna end up being NSFW... or empty. At that point, if NSFW isn't what you want, you'll find it distasteful and leave. It's probably a mild effect right now, maybe not even observable if your Twitter account is already well-established. But as Twitter continues to lose members, it will become more pronounced.