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> 3. Somebody I don't follow accusing another person I don't follow of being a nazi. I cannot believe how much of Twitter is exactly this.

hbn 4y ago
Left-wing twitter is calling everyone nazis and right-wing twitter is calling everyone pedophiles. Enjoy the nuanced discussion.
- azinman2 4y ago
  Godwin’s law is alive and well. But apparently updated for the current GOP with pedophiles!
  - Volundr 4y ago
    Well sometimes they call them Nazi pedophiles, so maybe it's already covered with no update needed?
- jl6 4y ago
  Twitter has conversational snap-to-grid.
- danaris 4y ago
  [flagged]
  - freedomben 4y ago
    > a significant proportion of the American right wing is, by any meaningful, objective definition, substantially aligned with the Nazi party, fully on board with authoritarian fascism, and ready and willing to murder people for opposing them. Are you being serious or missing a /s?
    - danaris 4y ago
      If you think that this needs a /s, you have not been paying attention to the news in recent months. ETA: Just as a for instance, the inept assassination attempt on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi the other day that sent her husband to the hospital.
      - hbn 4y ago
        One crazy guy breaking into the house of a politician that will obviously get covered by the news versus all the antifa mob attacks that have been participating in looting, riots, and assaulting people for having "wrong" opinions that get called "peaceful" by news outlets because both fight for the bottom line of the establishment.
    - nawgz 4y ago
      It's pretty clear that's serious. I find it strange you would read this as sarcasm - it's been pretty hard to miss the descent into fascism of the American right wing.
  - jl6 4y ago
    The nuanced discussion can be enjoyed here too!
- oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
  This is exactly why I avoid both of those twitters! I feel bad for those engaged in either one.
SilasX 4y ago
Yep, I discovered recently that it would constantly fill my notifications queue with "someone whose posts you looked at ages ago retweeted something you don't care about" ... and would also neglect to notify me about the direct replies I was getting to my tweets. WTF?
- oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
  > someone whose posts you looked at ages ago Someone you follow, presumably? > retweeted something you don't care about Are you really expecting an algorithm to make a judgement call on that? Maybe that IS how Twitter is 'supposed' to work - if it is, then I'm glad that's not how it seems to be working for me! I'm encouraged by recent talk from Musk about 'opening up the algorithm' and even the potential of configuring it. Heck, just give me a decent front-end query language and let me build my own feed - I'd probably pay for that.
  - SilasX 4y ago
    >Someone you follow, presumably? No. >Are you really expecting an algorithm to make a judgement call on that? Maybe that IS how Twitter is 'supposed' to work - if it is, then I'm glad that's not how it seems to be working for me! A direct reply has higher notification worthiness than something it thinks I might be interested in. This shouldn't be controversial.
pjc50 4y ago
This isn't just Twitter now. This is mainstream politics, it's all name calling. The UK Home Secretary blaming the "tofu-eating wokerati" from the dispatch box a couple of weeks ago.
- legitster 4y ago
  It's not so much the name calling. It's that you are arbitrarily invited into random people's gossip.
- ljw1001 4y ago
  First it was twitter. Then it became mainstream
  - amatecha 4y ago
    Ehhh, correlation is not causation. Flamebait rhetoric has seen an increase in all public media, IMHO. To offhandedly attribute it to Twitter is highly [citation needed].

hbn 4y ago

Left-wing twitter is calling everyone nazis and right-wing twitter is calling everyone pedophiles. Enjoy the nuanced discussion.

azinman2 4y ago
Godwin’s law is alive and well. But apparently updated for the current GOP with pedophiles!
- Volundr 4y ago
  Well sometimes they call them Nazi pedophiles, so maybe it's already covered with no update needed?
jl6 4y ago
Twitter has conversational snap-to-grid.
danaris 4y ago
[flagged]
- freedomben 4y ago
  > a significant proportion of the American right wing is, by any meaningful, objective definition, substantially aligned with the Nazi party, fully on board with authoritarian fascism, and ready and willing to murder people for opposing them. Are you being serious or missing a /s?
  - danaris 4y ago
    If you think that this needs a /s, you have not been paying attention to the news in recent months. ETA: Just as a for instance, the inept assassination attempt on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi the other day that sent her husband to the hospital.
    - hbn 4y ago
      One crazy guy breaking into the house of a politician that will obviously get covered by the news versus all the antifa mob attacks that have been participating in looting, riots, and assaulting people for having "wrong" opinions that get called "peaceful" by news outlets because both fight for the bottom line of the establishment.
  - nawgz 4y ago
    It's pretty clear that's serious. I find it strange you would read this as sarcasm - it's been pretty hard to miss the descent into fascism of the American right wing.
- jl6 4y ago
  The nuanced discussion can be enjoyed here too!
oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
This is exactly why I avoid both of those twitters! I feel bad for those engaged in either one.

SilasX 4y ago

Yep, I discovered recently that it would constantly fill my notifications queue with "someone whose posts you looked at ages ago retweeted something you don't care about" ... and would also neglect to notify me about the direct replies I was getting to my tweets. WTF?

oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
> someone whose posts you looked at ages ago Someone you follow, presumably? > retweeted something you don't care about Are you really expecting an algorithm to make a judgement call on that? Maybe that IS how Twitter is 'supposed' to work - if it is, then I'm glad that's not how it seems to be working for me! I'm encouraged by recent talk from Musk about 'opening up the algorithm' and even the potential of configuring it. Heck, just give me a decent front-end query language and let me build my own feed - I'd probably pay for that.
- SilasX 4y ago
  >Someone you follow, presumably? No. >Are you really expecting an algorithm to make a judgement call on that? Maybe that IS how Twitter is 'supposed' to work - if it is, then I'm glad that's not how it seems to be working for me! A direct reply has higher notification worthiness than something it thinks I might be interested in. This shouldn't be controversial.

pjc50 4y ago

This isn't just Twitter now. This is mainstream politics, it's all name calling. The UK Home Secretary blaming the "tofu-eating wokerati" from the dispatch box a couple of weeks ago.

legitster 4y ago
It's not so much the name calling. It's that you are arbitrarily invited into random people's gossip.
ljw1001 4y ago
First it was twitter. Then it became mainstream
- amatecha 4y ago
  Ehhh, correlation is not causation. Flamebait rhetoric has seen an increase in all public media, IMHO. To offhandedly attribute it to Twitter is highly [citation needed].