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To be honest, Twitter/X has been a sewer for a good decade or so. The only thing that has changed is the kind of sewage that is allowed or encouraged to flow t

To be honest, Twitter/X has been a sewer for a good decade or so. The only thing that has changed is the kind of sewage that is allowed or encouraged to flow through it.

pityJuke 3y ago
And the fact that sewage is now the content that is prioritised. Blue checkmarks went from being a flawed, but useful signal of interest, to being a symbol for the most garbage content on the internet. And I have to wade through the filth if I want to make it to anything interesting. Elon's checkmark system is the equivalent to the hot weather that caused the Great Stink [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink
- numpad0 3y ago
  Twitter of late is blue-checked bot replying to trending topic with copy-pasted text, to which bunch of another bots doing the same, creating fabricated and monetized reply trees. A lot has Arabic profile too. It's money laundering in the open, weird that no actions are being taken.
threeseed 3y ago
It is objectively much worse now. Which is natural when you effectively disband the safety teams and allow all previous banned accounts back onto the platform. Also where as Twitter at least tried to comply with codes of practice, X has simply just given up. Also a lot of it has to do with Musk being the face of the platform and endlessly trying to start culture wars.
- josteink 3y ago
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  - bena 3y ago
    > banned for discussing views They banned people for their position on taxes?
  - babypuncher 3y ago
    the only conservative views I've ever seen get "censored" are those pertaining to race, gender, and sexual orientation. You know, areas where some modern conservatives like being discriminatory assholes. I've never seen someone get censored for promoting small government or low taxes.
    - josteink 3y ago
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      - wtfwhateven 3y ago
        Predictable retort
      - babypuncher 3y ago
        phrenology is not real science. neither are the claims that intersex people don't exist, or that homosexuality is some choice that goes against what nature intends. my dad makes a lot of these dumb arguments, and then doesn't believe me when i explain that there are disorders which cause people to have a missing sex chromosome, or body parts that don't match their chromosomes, or try to explain how gender dysphoria works and is treated, or even that gender as a social construct is separate from sex as a biological facet. he's not using science to back up these opinions, he's just an old man with dated views and hides behind the "basic biology" rhetoric. it's funny how the real world consensus among actual scientists and doctors does not conform with conservative politics here.
        wtfwhateven 3y ago
        That's because science is leftist propaganda run by the new world order!! or something
- fouc 3y ago
  I wonder if there are measurements to prove that it is "objectively much worse" - besides the decrease in traffic, decrease in users, and decrease in advertising that can be mainly attributed to a period of adjustment & political bias.
epistasis 3y ago
I would rather say that Twitter had a sewer, but you didn't have to climb into it if you didn't want to, and it mostly didn't back up into everyone's homes and onto the streets. The new mayor of Twitter/X has decided that he likes the smell of his own shit and that everyone else should be forced to experience it, so we get piles of vapid idiotic blue check marks dominating discussion rather than the comments that are considered best by the crowd. Despite all the shit flowing in the streets, it can still be somewhat avoided, and there is valuable information on Twitter that I can not find from any other source. High quality curators of information about computational biology, energy, housing politics, etc. do not have as large a presence on any other social network yet. I just need to avoid any viral tweets or anything from the "For You" or trending topics, and I can avoid stepping in the worst of it.

To be honest, Twitter/X has been a sewer for a good decade or so. The only thing that has changed is the kind of sewage that is allowed or encouraged to flow through it.

pityJuke 3y ago

And the fact that sewage is now the content that is prioritised. Blue checkmarks went from being a flawed, but useful signal of interest, to being a symbol for the most garbage content on the internet. And I have to wade through the filth if I want to make it to anything interesting. Elon's checkmark system is the equivalent to the hot weather that caused the Great Stink [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink

numpad0 3y ago
Twitter of late is blue-checked bot replying to trending topic with copy-pasted text, to which bunch of another bots doing the same, creating fabricated and monetized reply trees. A lot has Arabic profile too. It's money laundering in the open, weird that no actions are being taken.

threeseed 3y ago

It is objectively much worse now. Which is natural when you effectively disband the safety teams and allow all previous banned accounts back onto the platform. Also where as Twitter at least tried to comply with codes of practice, X has simply just given up. Also a lot of it has to do with Musk being the face of the platform and endlessly trying to start culture wars.

josteink 3y ago
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- bena 3y ago
  > banned for discussing views They banned people for their position on taxes?
- babypuncher 3y ago
  the only conservative views I've ever seen get "censored" are those pertaining to race, gender, and sexual orientation. You know, areas where some modern conservatives like being discriminatory assholes. I've never seen someone get censored for promoting small government or low taxes.
  - josteink 3y ago
    [flagged]
    - wtfwhateven 3y ago
      Predictable retort
    - babypuncher 3y ago
      phrenology is not real science. neither are the claims that intersex people don't exist, or that homosexuality is some choice that goes against what nature intends. my dad makes a lot of these dumb arguments, and then doesn't believe me when i explain that there are disorders which cause people to have a missing sex chromosome, or body parts that don't match their chromosomes, or try to explain how gender dysphoria works and is treated, or even that gender as a social construct is separate from sex as a biological facet. he's not using science to back up these opinions, he's just an old man with dated views and hides behind the "basic biology" rhetoric. it's funny how the real world consensus among actual scientists and doctors does not conform with conservative politics here.
      - wtfwhateven 3y ago
        That's because science is leftist propaganda run by the new world order!! or something
fouc 3y ago
I wonder if there are measurements to prove that it is "objectively much worse" - besides the decrease in traffic, decrease in users, and decrease in advertising that can be mainly attributed to a period of adjustment & political bias.

epistasis 3y ago

I would rather say that Twitter had a sewer, but you didn't have to climb into it if you didn't want to, and it mostly didn't back up into everyone's homes and onto the streets. The new mayor of Twitter/X has decided that he likes the smell of his own shit and that everyone else should be forced to experience it, so we get piles of vapid idiotic blue check marks dominating discussion rather than the comments that are considered best by the crowd. Despite all the shit flowing in the streets, it can still be somewhat avoided, and there is valuable information on Twitter that I can not find from any other source. High quality curators of information about computational biology, energy, housing politics, etc. do not have as large a presence on any other social network yet. I just need to avoid any viral tweets or anything from the "For You" or trending topics, and I can avoid stepping in the worst of it.