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> Is it still a mostly cesspool of american politics-obsessed twitter refugees? 99% of social media on the English-speaking web is basically American politics
by CaptainOfCoit 2y ago
> Is it still a mostly cesspool of american politics-obsessed twitter refugees?
99% of social media on the English-speaking web is basically American politics obsessed, if you don't want that you need to branch out to other languages.
- bishbosh 2y agoAre they politics obsessed in other politics, or is that particular to Americans?
- Nextgrid 2y agoUnfortunately the garbage is spreading. It's less due to politics and more due to the rotten business models of all mainstream social media - it encourages engagement (algorithmically, so it doesn't even need human intention/decisions), it just turns out that political content is great at generating engagement and thus it floats to the top. Various actors take advantage of this for various reasons (including political motivations) but the underlying problem is that the platform itself will promote any content as long as it generates engagement.