[0xcb0]

I congratulate you to that decision. Twitter is really a breeding ground for racism and hate. Nobody should be on that platform.

[PixelForg]

Really depends on your feed, I first muted Elon, and only follow artists, so that's all my feed is, no hate or any racism.

[pavlov]

But you had to mute the owner and sole decision maker of the platform to get that result.

How long will he allow the peasants to mute or block him?

[sixtyj]

The same. I follow tech accounts and some parody accounts and haven’t never seen racism&co.

But x’s algorithm is a self-evolving b*tch so my recent feed can change anytime…

[kayamon]

It doesn't. Elon will happily spam your notifications with his own racist tweets directly, even if you don't follow him.

[rsynnott]

Back when I still had an account, after never seeing his content in the previous ~15 years I had been using Twitter, he was suddenly all over my feed. I had to mute him, and then, when that didn't work, block him, within months of his takeover.

[FuriouslyAdrift]

I made and follow my own "lists" and that blocks just about anything (including most ads). Also, having just under 10,000 block and mute words helps a bit.

[FuriouslyAdrift]

That's social media in general

[tb_technical]

Many artists (and normal people) publish their works there: from anime girls to short story updates on royal road.

[adamwong246]

It's not the content- it's the ownership. I don't want to give another dime to Mush and Zuckerberg.

[debugnik]

To be fair, that's what it shows by default. I recently created an account just for a short-term purpose, after years of not using it, and the starting algorithmic TL was just right-wing rage-bait about either my country or the US; nothing else. I chose to experiment, and it took days of active curation and follows for the algorithmic TL to stop trying and just show me game/anime stuff for example.

I can see people which open an account without a specific purpose just letting themselves fall into the first rabbit hole Twitter shows them.

[TSiege]

it is naive to think that twitter/x is a neutral platform when the owner of the site created a bot that called itself "mecha hitler". do you really think he isn't affecting everyone's feed as well?

[cykros]

Liberals, Fascists, and Communists always like to throw mud at each other as if they're not all cut from the same collectivist cloth (and all responsible for the deaths of millions). Best to pay them no mind.

Personally I'm not much a fan of Reddit or Twitter though, simply because the algorithmic nonsense is clearly there just to drive ad views and not to provide me with the interactions I'm there to have. Nostr is a much more pleasant experience.

[dzhiurgis]

Both places are infested with bots, but for me somehow reddit bots are more vile.

Definitely more open discussion up in X. Here or in reddit everything gets flagged and banned pretty quickly which defeats the purpose.

[jMyles]

> I don't even see politics on my feed.

I don't even know what this means today. What things are "non-political"? Saying "there are no politics" seems like the same thing as "the status quo is the only possibility" - exactly the stagnation from which I want to move away on socials.

[JumpCrisscross]

> I suspect a lot of it is politically motivated, coming from liberals

The liberal-conservative political dichotomy was dying before Trump and is decidedly non-descriptive now.

[thrance]

Make a new X account, open the front page. Within a few tweets, you can see neonazis casually discussing the jewish question or lunatics fantasizing about a coming race war. Reddit feels very, very milquetoast in comparison.

[zahlman]

> Content glorifying terrorist groups such as the Al Qassam brigades can stay up for many days on Reddit, for example. I had to personally fill the special form for content illegal in the EU, and even then it took a long time to be removed.

I remember reporting open calls to violence in various socialist subreddits with no action ever taken as far as I could tell. That was about a decade ago.

There was also a comment (I still have the link saved and it was never deleted) from more than a decade ago, from a moderator at the time (account since deleted) of the main transgender subreddit, openly accusing transgender members of the sub of being drug addicts and prostitutes based on absolutely nothing beyond disagreeing with the moderation team's hard-line woke (it was called "SJW" back then, of course) posture.

[hnreddit]

the same in HN where ad hominems, insults, rants are fine as long as they attack the right or use passwords like "fascist" or "racist"

now, you want to post conservative or rationalist ideas and better use 3 layers of metaphors or else you will be flagged within a minute

[ap99]

Basically this, yes.

I see one side engendering discussion and debate. The other side wants to shut discussion down.

People on either side find comfort in echo chambers, but definitely one more than the other.

[celeritascelery]

I never visit twitter/X “for you” or homepage, but instead just use the timeline and see only people I follow. This is mostly interesting people in tech or hobbies. It is great for that!

Every platform has their extremists and if you let the algorithm suggest content to you it will be stuff designed to fester hated and rage. However twitter is one of the few platforms that let you curate your feed, and I couldn’t use it without that.

[GaryBluto]

Why does everybody I see complaining about modern Twitter say the exact phrase "Nobody should be on that platform."? I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with your point, just curious if there was some manifesto going around or if everybody suddenly started using the same phrase.

Is it just me or have people started using the same phrases more often and faster than before? Reminds me of when everybody started saying "God forbid" a few months ago.

[davidw]

I don't know about the phrase, but I share the sentiment. The owner is a racist promoting racist things. It's not a 'public square' because he controls the algorithm, so it'll never be a 'fair fight' for those who disagree with him.

[medler]

I did some searches for “nobody should be on that platform” and found:

- one hit on a Lana del Rey message board

- one bluesky post from 8 months ago with no likes, reposts, or replies.

If you widen the search to “should be on that platform” then you get more hits, but many are references to Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, TikTok etc. It seems that people are reaching for a noun that can refer to these social media properties that are not just “sites” and not just “apps.” It would appear that ”platform” is the word we’ve landed on.

[HtmlProgrammer]

We want X to exist to contain these people.

The same situation applies to League of Legends and their wonderfully toxic player base

[normalaccess]

The groupthink is real, and it's coming for a skull near you.

But in all seriousness I think it's a mix of bots on the dead internet leading the monkey see monkey do paradigm. If you see 80 out of 100 people doing a thing then you get swept up in the flood. Even if 50 of those 80 are bots.

[GoblinSlayer]

It's a straightforward solution to the monopoly problem.

[jajuuka]

Like pareidolia humans are great at seeing patterns that don't exist. Nobody should on that platform is an extremely common phrase. So you'll probably hear it more than once. However that doesn't mean there is a conspiracy.

[jedimastert]

Can you find me some notable examples?

[drcongo]

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.