urgh, there goes my automatic redirect... any alternatives? Although, I don't see how this will hold up in court as they're pretty much an archive-like site hosting UGC.
>any alternatives?
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#884Who TF wants to use Twitter? Its the worst echo chamber out there.
Sir, you are controlling the buttons you push. I.e. it's up to you who you follow and what exactly you read on Twitter - just like any other social network.
There are news that are circulating much faster on Twitter than anywhere else (for example about war in Ukraine). There are people and companies that post only on Twitter and nowhere else (especially in tech).
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Some AI bros refuse to leave
If someone is still on twitter I'm just going to assume their morals align with those of Musk. And then I avoid them.
> And then I avoid them.
Hacker News and basically everyone from YC have an official profile on Twitter: https://x.com/hackernews
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#886I do not know if xcancel is going to survive this :( As far as I understand, people use XCancel because they do not like X (and Elon) so do not want to give money or traffic to X. But they still want to read and share content posted there. The added value of XCancel is they are not owned by Elon Musk. Am I correct here?
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#887Who TF wants to use Twitter? Its the worst echo chamber out there.
Reddit is worse imo just because of how the site is structured and the power of mods.
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#888Who TF wants to use Twitter? Its the worst echo chamber out there.
Sir, you are controlling the buttons you push. I.e. it's up to you who you follow and what exactly you read on Twitter - just like any other social network. There are news that are circulating much faster on Twitter than anywhere else (for example about war in Ukraine). There are people and companies that post only on Twitter and nowhere else (especially in tech).
> it's up to you who you follow and what exactly you read on Twitter
The Twitter experience is a highly algorithmic feed where tweets from the people you follow are not guaranteed to be in chronological order, or even shown to you at all. The default experience also mixes it other tweets "you might be interested in", that is, things they want you to see.
There's also the fact people could freely see tweets and follow discussion threads, that's now locked behind an account requirement.
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And hacker news is a diverse pluralistic utopia
Whataboutisms do nothing to refute genuine criticisms.
If someone thinks Twitter is an echo chamber to the extent they can’t fathom how people tolerate it (and it isn’t just an appeal for easy upvotes), but they happily post on HN, they’ll be able to clear up their initial confusion with a bit of self reflection.
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#890Who TF wants to use Twitter? Its the worst echo chamber out there.
General sentiment might be this, but every social network (even Instagram and Facebook) can be good and productive if you change how you use them. If you follow specific profiles/channels/pages and just read the feeds from them as if they were news, you are removing the toxic part (mostly infinite scrolling) and getting a resourceful feature. If for some reason someone you need to follow is on X (twitter) only, you h…
The platform compromise is a new thing. One of the reasons people used Twitter was its open nature, enabling its use as a bulletin board where anyone could post a message and being sure that the message link was free for anyone to see. This isn't the case anymore, as X forces people to make accounts to see messages.