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I find X to be far more enjoyable than at any time in the past, but I suspect that's because we have different politics. Peak unusability on Twitter for me was,
by dionidium 3y ago
I find X to be far more enjoyable than at any time in the past, but I suspect that's because we have different politics. Peak unusability on Twitter for me was, say, 2016-2021, a period during which people who disagreed with me on there literally emailed my boss to try to cause trouble for me, a period in which I was routinely piled-on and called the most offensive and ridiculous names by massive accounts for relatively banal and benign moderate opinions.
That's all mostly gone now and many of the most insufferable users (from my point of view) have moved elsewhere.
People who happen to have accepted the dominant Twitter culture of that period don't see any of this in the same way a fish doesn't know what water is.
- matthewdgreen 3y agoI would love to know what you were disagreeing about.
- dionidium 3y agoDavid Shor was fired for pointing out (with data) that riots are electorally counterproductive, for example.
- slater 3y agoAre you David Shor? Otherwise, what were YOU posting that prompted others to call your employer?
- dionidium 3y agoWhy don’t you just say explicitly what you’re trying to imply and save everybody the bother of guessing.
- slater 3y agoI could ask you the exact same question. Edit: Also, nice dodge.
- dionidium 3y agoIt’s not 2015 anymore and I’m not going to have a conversation with you about whether cancel culture is real or if maybe actually everybody complaining about it just simply deserved it. If you want to have that debate, then you’re going to need either a time machine or another interlocutor.
- slater 3y agoI never mentioned anything about whether cancel culture is real or not. All I wanted to know is, what was it you were posting that prompted others to go to such extremes of contacting your employer?
- hereme888 3y agoMany of those insufferable users that left are still in here, hence your downvotes.