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What's funny is that Twitter has always had a reputation as the dumpster fire of social networks, at least among people I talk to. Something about the, traditio

What's funny is that Twitter has always had a reputation as the dumpster fire of social networks, at least among people I talk to. Something about the, traditionally, short-form posts and the user base means it's a constant mess of drama and flamewars. I think it's gotten worse since Musk took over. But it hasn't moved in "the rankings" compared to other social networks. I wonder if Threads and Bluesky will eventually be as nasty as old Twitter of if they'll manage to foster better discussions somehow.

soylentcola 3y ago
Yeah...I always looked at it like "the comments section". For a while, everyone joked about Youtube saying "never read the comments section, man!" Or you only need to look at the comments section on any large media outlet (newspaper, tv, etc) article to see the same thing. Person + anonymity + audience, etc. Twitter was like the comments section for the entire internet. So many people. So much trying to be funny or witty or provocative. Such expected results.
SleepilyLimping 3y ago
>I wonder if Threads and Bluesky will eventually be as nasty as old Twitter of if they'll manage to foster better discussions somehow. Both of those places seem to have gotten their initial swell of "actually using it" users from anti-Twitter/Musk people and pro-leftist/progressives. They also seem very militant about making sure that they are the gatekeepers/rulemakers of these new kingdoms.
CM30 3y ago
Threads is already going that direction. It's a lot more negative and cynical than it was when it started out, and seems to be slowly morphing into more of a Twitter like experience than an Instagram like one. Not sure about BlueSky, though I may not be following active enough people there to notice any change in atmosphere.
babypuncher 3y ago
Before Musk took over, I ranked it above Facebook. It still wasn't "good", but it wasn't a privacy nightmare to the degree that Facebook was, and you could at least trust that things like blue checkmarks actually meant something.

soylentcola 3y ago

Yeah...I always looked at it like "the comments section". For a while, everyone joked about Youtube saying "never read the comments section, man!" Or you only need to look at the comments section on any large media outlet (newspaper, tv, etc) article to see the same thing. Person + anonymity + audience, etc. Twitter was like the comments section for the entire internet. So many people. So much trying to be funny or witty or provocative. Such expected results.

SleepilyLimping 3y ago

>I wonder if Threads and Bluesky will eventually be as nasty as old Twitter of if they'll manage to foster better discussions somehow. Both of those places seem to have gotten their initial swell of "actually using it" users from anti-Twitter/Musk people and pro-leftist/progressives. They also seem very militant about making sure that they are the gatekeepers/rulemakers of these new kingdoms.

CM30 3y ago

Threads is already going that direction. It's a lot more negative and cynical than it was when it started out, and seems to be slowly morphing into more of a Twitter like experience than an Instagram like one. Not sure about BlueSky, though I may not be following active enough people there to notice any change in atmosphere.

babypuncher 3y ago

Before Musk took over, I ranked it above Facebook. It still wasn't "good", but it wasn't a privacy nightmare to the degree that Facebook was, and you could at least trust that things like blue checkmarks actually meant something.