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X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

#11
Just like Paris

I hate twitter , and a lot, specially before Musk, however it is insane to see some people just starting to complain.

Only when finally those who disagree politically with them have a crumb of a voice.

The place was always horrible problem is this people had an elite of horrible "journalists" being yes men and secluding them from divergent voices.

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

#12
X is the best social media platform out there at this point. What are the alternatives? Meta's Facebook, Instagram? TikTok? It's just bollocks. X is where a lot of interesting people post, and where freedom of speech is the most upheld. Community notes is also a super interesting aspect. It's not X's fault someone follows nazis or whatever and don't know where the mute / block buttons are.

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

#14
Then she should be off of all social media, rather than joining into a different sewer location.

It always has been for decades, long before Musk bought the company, but again hundreds of millions still use the platform after all the nonsensical predictions of complete shutdown one year ago and the continuing active campaigns to bring it down.

There are much more larger global sewers such as Instagram and TikTok that who's algorithms are much worse than Twitter / X, so let us not believe that this 'global sewage' is exclusive to Twitter / X and especially the words of someone who still needs to clean up their own city.

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

#16

Just like Paris I hate twitter , and a lot, specially before Musk, however it is insane to see some people just starting to complain. Only when finally those who disagree politically with them have a crumb of a voice. The place was always horrible problem is this people had an elite of horrible "journalists" being yes men and secluding them from divergent voices.

Paris is much nicer than Twitter. If I had to choose which to keep, I'd pick Paris over some shit social media platform.

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

#17
post #16

Just like Paris I hate twitter , and a lot, specially before Musk, however it is insane to see some people just starting to complain. Only when finally those who disagree politically with them have a crumb of a voice. The place was always horrible problem is this people had an elite of horrible "journalists" being yes men and secluding them from divergent voices.

Paris is much nicer than Twitter. If I had to choose which to keep, I'd pick Paris over some shit social media platform.

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Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

#19
post #8

To be honest, Twitter/X has been a sewer for a good decade or so. The only thing that has changed is the kind of sewage that is allowed or encouraged to flow through it.

And the fact that sewage is now the content that is prioritised. Blue checkmarks went from being a flawed, but useful signal of interest, to being a symbol for the most garbage content on the internet. And I have to wade through the filth if I want to make it to anything interesting.

Elon's checkmark system is the equivalent to the hot weather that caused the Great Stink [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

#20
post #12

X is the best social media platform out there at this point. What are the alternatives? Meta's Facebook, Instagram? TikTok? It's just bollocks. X is where a lot of interesting people post, and where freedom of speech is the most upheld. Community notes is also a super interesting aspect. It's not X's fault someone follows nazis or whatever and don't know where the mute / block buttons are.

> and where freedom of speech is the most upheld.

Elon is literally suing for speech he doesn't like.

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