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Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by 4dahalibut »

MarcScott wrote: post #178

Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest. I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you? Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.

Totally agree. It's incredibly easy for me to simply filter out ppl who rage-bait. I am more internet-native than most though? Maybe it's harder for the general populace than I might otherwise assume?

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by soabeb »

qgin wrote: post #113

“Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed” sounds great until you see what that actually means on the internet. Anyone who has ever worked in content moderation / trust & safety knows what kind of unrelenting deluge of obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff that is constantly being pushed back on any moderately popular social media site. It seems so easy from a d…

The old tenant of the internet was “if you don’t like something, block it”. All of these people saying that this doesn’t work in practice on their social media websites have not provided an explanation as to why this is the case.

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Post by TigeriusKirk »

qgin wrote: post #113

“Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed” sounds great until you see what that actually means on the internet. Anyone who has ever worked in content moderation / trust & safety knows what kind of unrelenting deluge of obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff that is constantly being pushed back on any moderately popular social media site. It seems so easy from a d…

Make it so people can say whatever they want, but it's easy to decide what level of discourse you're personally willing to listen to. You have the right to say what you want and other people have the right not to listen.

It's not an easy system to develop and maintain, but Twitter pays well enough to afford people who can do it. The goal just needs to be set.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by midislack »

qgin wrote: post #113

“Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed” sounds great until you see what that actually means on the internet. Anyone who has ever worked in content moderation / trust & safety knows what kind of unrelenting deluge of obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff that is constantly being pushed back on any moderately popular social media site. It seems so easy from a d…

Twitter's already a huge shit hole, it's just that the fascists are going to rejoin the Marxists so everybody can excrete into the common hole together. Three is no reason to believe anything will happen other than more "journalists" getting abused, and let's face it - they deserve it. Learn to code being bannable was, for me, the last straw and I stopped using Twitter after being banned for saying it to a journalist.

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Post by nradov »

qgin wrote: post #113

“Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed” sounds great until you see what that actually means on the internet. Anyone who has ever worked in content moderation / trust & safety knows what kind of unrelenting deluge of obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff that is constantly being pushed back on any moderately popular social media site. It seems so easy from a d…

You don't have to follow anyone who tweets obnoxious content.

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Post by jmeister »

boredumb wrote: post #105

People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself. Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills…

Man, another million comment thread wit the same arguments.

Of course it can turn into a cesspool. Of course there are ways around that problem. Like allowing more customizability for users.

Like a ‘old Twitter’ filter that would allow only content compatible with the old moderation norms.

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Post by [deleted] »

boredumb wrote: post #105

People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself. Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills…

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