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There's a tension between allowing more things and being a welcoming platform that people enjoy participating in. I don't think anyone really knows how things a

There's a tension between allowing more things and being a welcoming platform that people enjoy participating in. I don't think anyone really knows how things at Twitter will land yet.

lemoncookiechip 4y ago
> being a welcoming platform that people enjoy participating in. Not to sound rude or anything, but that ship sailed a very long time ago. No one thinks of Twitter as anything but a toxic cesspool filled with bots, bad takes, and the odd chance of getting cancelled. People still engage in it, but they do so despite knowing what the platform is. As for what Elon will do to it, well, no one knows, but its future isn't looking great as of right now with all his recent Tweets.
- delecti 4y ago
  > No one thinks of Twitter as anything but a toxic cesspool I do. I keep my timeline on "latest" and it's a perfectly pleasant experience filled with only tweets from the people I've followed (and their retweets, which I also have mostly off). Keeping the Twitter timeline on their algorithmic "home" feed is mentally/emotionally as risky, reckless, and self-destructive as drunk driving is physically, but keeping it on latest is a totally reasonable experience. I see more obnoxiously bad takes here than I do there.
- mindcrime 4y ago
  No one thinks of Twitter as anything but a toxic cesspool filled with bots, bad takes, and the odd chance of getting cancelled. That's complete bollocks IMO. Twitter has it's issues, to be sure. But honestly, if one puts any care at all into managing their experience by being selective about who they follow, and using the "mute" and "block" features frequently, Twitter can be fine. I use it mainly to follow AI/ML news and to interact with other Dolphins fans during football season. In no regard do I look at it as nothing but "a toxic cesspool...". Now if I chose to follow a lot of people who engage in political discourse, and chose to tweet a lot about politics, I'd probably feel the same way you do. But again... "mute" and "block" are your friends.
- Giorgi 4y ago
  It is only toxic cesspool if you are far-left following that type of media, anything out of ordinary radical-left content triggers such user. I follow many very interesting SEO authors. It's never toxic.
willis936 4y ago
I would say "in the trash bin" but the general mood is that's where it's been for a long time.

There's a tension between allowing more things and being a welcoming platform that people enjoy participating in. I don't think anyone really knows how things at Twitter will land yet.

lemoncookiechip 4y ago

> being a welcoming platform that people enjoy participating in. Not to sound rude or anything, but that ship sailed a very long time ago. No one thinks of Twitter as anything but a toxic cesspool filled with bots, bad takes, and the odd chance of getting cancelled. People still engage in it, but they do so despite knowing what the platform is. As for what Elon will do to it, well, no one knows, but its future isn't looking great as of right now with all his recent Tweets.

delecti 4y ago
> No one thinks of Twitter as anything but a toxic cesspool I do. I keep my timeline on "latest" and it's a perfectly pleasant experience filled with only tweets from the people I've followed (and their retweets, which I also have mostly off). Keeping the Twitter timeline on their algorithmic "home" feed is mentally/emotionally as risky, reckless, and self-destructive as drunk driving is physically, but keeping it on latest is a totally reasonable experience. I see more obnoxiously bad takes here than I do there.
mindcrime 4y ago
No one thinks of Twitter as anything but a toxic cesspool filled with bots, bad takes, and the odd chance of getting cancelled. That's complete bollocks IMO. Twitter has it's issues, to be sure. But honestly, if one puts any care at all into managing their experience by being selective about who they follow, and using the "mute" and "block" features frequently, Twitter can be fine. I use it mainly to follow AI/ML news and to interact with other Dolphins fans during football season. In no regard do I look at it as nothing but "a toxic cesspool...". Now if I chose to follow a lot of people who engage in political discourse, and chose to tweet a lot about politics, I'd probably feel the same way you do. But again... "mute" and "block" are your friends.
Giorgi 4y ago
It is only toxic cesspool if you are far-left following that type of media, anything out of ordinary radical-left content triggers such user. I follow many very interesting SEO authors. It's never toxic.

willis936 4y ago

I would say "in the trash bin" but the general mood is that's where it's been for a long time.