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You can't be serious. I don't use neither X nor bluesky, but I did get an X account for a while so I could check the links in random news or conversations, and

You can't be serious. I don't use neither X nor bluesky, but I did get an X account for a while so I could check the links in random news or conversations, and half the posts had unrelated Nazi messages just below. Not 'oh that's right wing so he's a Nazi' comments, I mean literal swastikas and kkk uniforms.

kstrauser 1y ago
That's been my experience, too. I signed up with an account so I could follow some people, and my default timeline has been full of some pretty extreme stuff. For example, there were a shocking number of posts against the proposed digital ID system because it's being advocated for by "Larry Ellison, a Jew". That's a verbatim quote, BTW. Uh, excuse me? There are plenty of valid reasons to dislike Larry Ellison, but his supposedly being Jewish is 100% not one of them. But there it was, up front and proud: oppose this thing because Jews are pushing for it! That was one example of a great many loathsome things I saw there, and before anyone asks, no, I didn't see any leftwing equivalent content. Not saying it's not on there, just that it was not on my default timeline.
- torben-friis 1y ago
  Yup, that’s the kind of thing I was talking about. Curiously I was immediately downvoted, which (assuming most people here aren’t that extreme) makes me think people relatively into the network aren’t familiar with the current state for a newish user.
  - kstrauser 1y ago
    I was shocked at what I saw. I won't so far as to say that I wouldn't have believed you, but I would've been skeptical. Nope, not anymore. It was really, really bad. And like you, I'm not talking about things like "oh no, people are saying things I disagree with!" It was more like "wow, I cannot believe people are actually saying these things in public without fear of being shunned by society".
jjangkke 1y ago
The algos show you only what you and your followers like or retweet ive never seen any nazi stuff....so who are the people you are following or following you liking ?

kstrauser 1y ago

That's been my experience, too. I signed up with an account so I could follow some people, and my default timeline has been full of some pretty extreme stuff. For example, there were a shocking number of posts against the proposed digital ID system because it's being advocated for by "Larry Ellison, a Jew". That's a verbatim quote, BTW. Uh, excuse me? There are plenty of valid reasons to dislike Larry Ellison, but his supposedly being Jewish is 100% not one of them. But there it was, up front and proud: oppose this thing because Jews are pushing for it! That was one example of a great many loathsome things I saw there, and before anyone asks, no, I didn't see any leftwing equivalent content. Not saying it's not on there, just that it was not on my default timeline.

torben-friis 1y ago
Yup, that’s the kind of thing I was talking about. Curiously I was immediately downvoted, which (assuming most people here aren’t that extreme) makes me think people relatively into the network aren’t familiar with the current state for a newish user.
- kstrauser 1y ago
  I was shocked at what I saw. I won't so far as to say that I wouldn't have believed you, but I would've been skeptical. Nope, not anymore. It was really, really bad. And like you, I'm not talking about things like "oh no, people are saying things I disagree with!" It was more like "wow, I cannot believe people are actually saying these things in public without fear of being shunned by society".

jjangkke 1y ago

The algos show you only what you and your followers like or retweet ive never seen any nazi stuff....so who are the people you are following or following you liking ?