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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

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Post by femiagbabiaka »

GamerUncle wrote: post #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.

Twitter was definitely always bad, but it's also definitely worse now. There are no adults in the room, it's obvious. I'm not sure I would describe the unique amalgamation of neo-fascists and bots that swarm every post on there now as political dissidents who finally have a crumb of a voice.

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

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Post by GamerUncle »

twixfel wrote: post #16
GamerUncle wrote: post #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.

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

"If I have to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all."

Never said that you have to choose or that twitter is nicer.

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

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Post by rpmisms »

wnevets wrote: post #20
ThalesX wrote: 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.

That's compatible with freedom of speech. He's not censoring it, but he can show damages from misleading speech.

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

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Post by waynesonfire »

There is sewage in X, sewage in your city, and sewage in your home.

X is what you make it to be. I spend little enough time on it that the small amount of content I do consume from it doesn't offend me.

What I have noticed is the vast amount of criticism of X during the FB Threads rollout. Unsurprisingly, it's dead. Threads has no reason to be immune to the alleged dysfunction that's seen on X. My theory is that it would be no different had it been able to attract sufficient market share.

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

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Post by anigbrowl »

ThalesX wrote: 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.

where freedom of speech is the most upheld

Nonsense, if your tweet includes swear words of any kind (regardless of whether the sentiment expressed is positive or negative) it will be quietly hidden and your placement score will go down.

Edit: Pointing this out seems to have upset some folk.

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

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Post by threeseed »

porcoda wrote: 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.

It is objectively much worse now.

Which is natural when you effectively disband the safety teams and allow all previous banned accounts back onto the platform. Also where as Twitter at least tried to comply with codes of practice, X has simply just given up.

Also a lot of it has to do with Musk being the face of the platform and endlessly trying to start culture wars.

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

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Post by escaper »

GamerUncle wrote: post #22
twixfel wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

"If I have to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all." Never said that you have to choose or that twitter is nicer.

My man what is your beef with Paris? Now it's evil?!

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

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Post by smelly101 »

wnevets wrote: post #20
ThalesX wrote: 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.

Can you go into more detail?

He pays for peoples legal funds who have issues with free speech on twitter no matter if he agrees or not.

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