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0 pointshapposai9mo ago0 comments

Twitter won't open my eyes to the "world is actually thinking". It is a rather minor social media in the big picture:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net...

There are certainly much better ways to learn what the world is thinking than a website without effective moderation. The problem was never "censorship" or "people are not allowed to say everything". The problem is the quantity of garbage the information supersewer generates and finding what is true and relevant.

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jeffhuys9mo ago

It’s interesting to me that we can have such different views of the same platform.

“Garbage”. “Supersewer”. I simply don’t see what you mean. Of course there IS garbage, but you’d actively have to seek it out. You’d have to scroll down all the replies to get to the shit. If you want to see that, it’s there, but if it doesn’t have value, it stays there. Up top are the sensible replies and discussion threads.

We can keep talking, but if you don’t want to see it, you’ll never see it.

loktarogar9mo ago

> Of course there IS garbage, but you’d actively have to seek it out

I still instinctively open Twitter up most days. I scroll for a bit, see a couple of interesting tweets, but the majority is either garbage spam for views, overtly general racist tweets, purposeful right-wing distortion of facts to incite hate.

You go into any comments of a tweet that has gained a traction - the first comment will usually be "@grok is this true?", OF replies boosted by the original post (because the thread was garbage spam and they're getting paid), or obvious ChatGPT responses.

It feels really disheartening, especially having grown my career from the stuff i've seen and connections i've made on Twitter. Shell of its former self.

regularjack9mo ago

Every time I open a Twitter link, most of the comments will be garbage.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse