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As an ethnic Jew, pure un-moderated free speech is a frightening prospect for me. I can't wait for twitter to become another Parler or 4-chan filled with hateful content. As someone impacted by this kind of speech, I don't see how this is any different than yelling fire in a crowded theater. We are essentially normalizing ideas that will lead to violence and oppression of certain groups.
As an ethnic Jew, pure un-moderated free speech is a frightening prospect for me. I can't wait for twitter to become another Parler or 4-chan filled with hateful content. As someone impacted by this kind of speech, I don't see how this is any different than yelling fire in a crowded theater. We are essentially normalizing ideas that will lead to violence and oppression of certain groups.
You'll be horrified by this one eighteenth-century document.
More seriously, if Twitter becomes 4chan, won't it become as popular as 4chan? Sewers aren't popular places to hang out.
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.
[1]: mute the following forever, all without quotes: "RT @", "suggest_activity_tweet", "suggest_recycled_tweet_inline"
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.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Twitter is probably the best social media platform for interplanetary communication, where low bandwidth and delayed transmission are fundamental bottlenecks, and both limitations are considered part of the appeal (character limitations and a format where you simply disperse messages and have no real notion of when they'll be received). In that case, I wonder if the monetizatio…
A single tweet is so incredibly bloated and inefficient for transmission through space, that it would not have any chance of arriving uncorrupted on the other side.
"If you open that tweet in a browser, you'll see the page is 900 KB big. That's almost 100 KB more than the full text of The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov’s funny and enigmatic novel about the Devil visiting Moscow with his retinue (complete with a giant cat!) during the Great Purge of 1937, intercut with an odd vision of the life of Pontius Pilate, Jesus Christ, and the devoted but unreliable apostle Matthew.
For a single tweet."
Get rid of the mandatory account please. I have no need for a twitter account because I have no need to follow people or tweet myself. Why do I need an account.
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.
[1] I may follow someone for their tech content, that person may also be a big American football fan a sport I have no interest in.
[2] hashtags are not the same and people don’t use them consistently
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.
I'm following exactly one person (a mathematician). A significant number of the tweets I get to read are still political. I also get some stupid recommendation (tabloid type of content).
It's entertaining, probably not toxic, but addictive, noisy and overall not a very productive activity. I get much more from HN.
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.
To feign ignorance on the subject is silly and side steps the main criticisms.
No one is talking about your personal twitter feed here. They are referencing Twitter as a whole and its culture.
Censorship doesnt seem like a big deal if you agree with the side that is censoring.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1518645588350361602?...