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It absolutely wasn't. Twitter has been a cesspit of rage bait and idiotic hot takes since it became popular. I'm sure it's about to get a lot worse, but that d

• delecti 4y ago
  I keep my feed reverse-chronological (and avoid their "home" feed), and the worst thing I see in my feed is people complaining about all the rage bait. Their algorithmic feed tries to put "engaging" content in your face, but it's so easy to avoid that it honestly seems negligent that most people don't bother with the two clicks it'd take to make the change. Yes it'd be better if that stuff didn't exist, but it's hardly as bad as other sites' feeds.
• JustSomeNobody 4y ago
  Twitter is much like Reddit in that if you actively avoid the shit, you won't get any on you and it's not that bad.
  • smt88 4y ago
    I haven't had that experience. Literally any tweet I've seen that has more than five comments has at least one toxic comment (or just some insane barely-related crypto rant). Reddit, by comparison, has subreddits that are heavily modded and have no toxic comments at all. There is no heavily modded part of Twitter, unless I suppose you use it as a private social network and everyone you interact with is set to private.
• ghusto 4y ago
  Remember when the "mobile version" was just SMS? It was fun back then. Fun fact: A couple of years ago, I wanted to see some of those first tweets I made over SMS, and they were gone. My guess is that they had major data loss at one point, and just never told anyone.