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"Television is more detrimental to humans than telephone ever was." "Telephone is more detrimental to humans than radio ever was." "Radio is more detrimental to humans than telegraph ever was."
How is telephone and telegraph detrimental?
Do we really need to surface every bug/bot report in Twitter's backlog and then assume villainous intent? Come on. Aren't we better than this?
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Yep. My account got suspended a few years ago. But to be honest, it was a blessing in disguise. Twitter for me was a huge time sink, even though I followed really interesting people talking about things I was really interesting. But once I got a forced detox, I realised I just gained back hours a week to do other things. Get off Twitter. Even better, turn off that TV.
This is my experience too, I honestly believe that for anyone using twitter being permanently suspended is the best thing that can happen to them. It's just an awful place. Spam, bots, fake stories, constant outrage. It's miserable but people seem to become addicted.
I suspect this kind of problem is unavoidable when a large fraction of the world uses a centralized many-to-many communication platform. Moderation is always going to be a cost center for such a platform and there's a big gap between good enough moderation to prevent a mass exodus and what most of us would likely call good . Using decentralized tools might improve the situation.
Can't wait for the AI to replace middle management, like the other link from the front-page claimed will happen. I can finally get fired by some black box algorithm so no one has to take responsibility.
Do we really need to surface every bug/bot report in Twitter's backlog and then assume villainous intent? Come on. Aren't we better than this?
Using the web and it's services really feels more and more like tedious work which is simply not worth it anymore. I don't want to sound like some old grunt (not even 30 yet), but every modern service uses some kind of automatic banning system and everything you invested can be gone in seconds. To spice things up, all these services also stopped providing any kind of support regarding these kind of problems. Ever tri…
I don't know what the solution is. I don't use social media (except HN, I don't know if it falls under social media category) and I don't feel the need to. It is super easy to not use Facebook, Twitter etc. But I have to use banks, insurance etc - there is no way to vote with wallet there, as almost every bank is as bad as the next one. I know of at least one college who post their class schedule, events etc only on Facebook, forcing their students to have a FB account. The level of stupidity...