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Clifton Suspension Bridge Leaves X

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Re: Clifton Suspension Bridge Leaves X

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Post by s1artibartfast »

JSDevOps wrote: post #3

Why do people need to make an announcement. Just leave.

Let users know to to expect new posts, where to find updates moving forward, and explain to followers why they are leaving.

I get that many people also want to make a social statement, but there are still many legitimate reasons to communicate something if you have followers.

Re: Clifton Suspension Bridge Leaves X

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Post by DemocracyFTW2 »

s1artibartfast wrote: post #7
DemocracyFTW2 wrote: post #5

The remarkable thing is really how much hate speech this announcement triggered on X

I didnt see any hate speech. I saw a bunch of critical, reactionary, and stupid takes, but nothing close to hate speech.

Well I guess it depends on where you draw the line. Let's say there was a fair number of openly or covertly aggressive takes among the not too many (dozens) comments that I scrolled over

Re: Clifton Suspension Bridge Leaves X

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Post by s1artibartfast »

DemocracyFTW2 wrote: post #8
s1artibartfast wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didnt see any hate speech. I saw a bunch of critical, reactionary, and stupid takes, but nothing close to hate speech.

Well I guess it depends on where you draw the line. Let's say there was a fair number of openly or covertly aggressive takes among the not too many (dozens) comments that I scrolled over

I'd agree to that. People get stirred up and angry about the Twitter topic. You just see the other side on Reddit or hacker News.

When I think of hate speech, I think of unveiled threats of death of violence. In the US at least, the definition usually requires a racial or minority component.

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