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Re: Ask HN: Are there viable alternatives to Twitter?

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No. Unlike the right wingers, I don't actually want to delete people I disagree with from the world. But my timeline would definitely be improved without "speech" like that.

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>Your timeline in life would be improved with dialogues like this helping resolve your cognitive dissonance.

Meh. You haven't even attempted to engage in good faith dialogue in this thread, so much as try to dunk on a strawman that seems to be living rent free in your head.

No, I'm sorry to inform you I'm not the frightened, cognitively dissonant, hypocritical whatever you seem to think I am. You can't read my mind, you haven't seen my soul, you're not onto my game. I have no issue engaging in dialogue with people with whom i disagree politically - I do it all the time in real life, as I tick a lot of boxes that my community and family disagree with. But online it just isn't worth the effort anymore to keep dealing with people who haven't grown past the 4chan mentality.

Besides, everyone already knows what the right wing believes. Their views aren't radical, or even novel. They haven't had a new idea in this or the previous century.

Re: Ask HN: Are there viable alternatives to Twitter?

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Yea see, Elon opening the floodgates to shit like this is why people want to run for the hills.

What is preventing anyone from posting the comment word for word on Twitter? I don't even use Twitter much and I've seen worse.

Re: Ask HN: Are there viable alternatives to Twitter?

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I still don't get what Twitter's value proposition is. What do you get out of it as a consumer?

I remember how Twitter started. It was this obscure alternative to RSS feeds, that many news channels suddenly started pushing (why?). I remember how they would actively include a segment in nightly news on talking about what has been posted on Twitter, back when it wasn't really anything newsworthy. It did not seem like organic growth to me.

Re: Ask HN: Are there viable alternatives to Twitter?

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I still don't get what Twitter's value proposition is. What do you get out of it as a consumer? I remember how Twitter started. It was this obscure alternative to RSS feeds, that many news channels suddenly started pushing (why?). I remember how they would actively include a segment in nightly news on talking about what has been posted on Twitter, back when it wasn't really anything newsworthy. It did not seem like o…

- Breaking News - FinTwit - If you are into investing and trading - Almost everyone is on Twitter. I follow some interesting people on philosophy, art, painting, cyber security etc. - Memes

If you spend some time and mute all the politics, it is a must-have media.

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