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Re:Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter by fleddr on Monday April 04, 2022 @03:00PM (#30910679)
My comment isn't about your personal experience on Twitter, rather the role it plays at a macro level. It is a platform that is politically impactful, and not in a good way. It rewards division, extremism, polarization, it brings out the worst in us.

That's on Twitter. They actively designed the product to do so.

Re:Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter by fossuser on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:03PM (#30911376)
Your comment was more than about the macro level.

> "You can't express yourself on Twitter due to the character limit, so all you can do is witty superficial takes. Threading and replies are a disaster making a structured discussion impossible. These two things alone make the platform useless for most speech purposes."

My reply was pushing back against this - it's too strongly positioned. I don't disagree with the issues that exist at the macro level, but people can and do express themselves in ways that make the service useful and valuable.