Re:“Twitter is going great” is being sunset
by maxsilver on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:34AM
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> Either I'm the one person who isn't seeing this, or this person has a very deranged definition of "white supremacist."
(just a guess) folks with marginalized identities / marginalized backgrounds, get force-fed this stuff a lot more often than others. If you look like a straight white guy (and/or those make up the bulk of your followers/followings) then they aren't going to send you nearly as much of it.
It's a little bit like TikTok's algorithm. If you tell me, "my TikTok is just dancing women", I know which side of TikTok you are on, and that it's not any of the sides I'm on. If you tell me, "everything's been mostly fine on Twitter" since the switch, your probably (perhaps unintentionally) telling me a lot about the kinds of people you follow, and the parts of Twitter you engage with.
> The biggest problems I've had with Twitter since Elon took over is having to see his unfunny jokes like tweets saying which planet they're sent from or making the logo a doge head for a few days.
The biggest problem I've had with Twitter since the switchover, is that the trust and safety department was entirely decimated, so all of my friends or light acquaintances were exposed to 10,000 times more harassment and bigotry than before by every random white supremacist / christian nationalist type, and those folks are now the bulk of Twitter's paying customers, coughing up their $8/month for a literal checkmark so that they can jump to the top of any comment reply, when doing that harassment. (Not saying everyone with a checkmark is a bad guy, but nearly all the bad guys we do encounter, have paid for it). The folks who have the patience to put up with staying online through all of that, have mostly moved to Cohost or trusted-admin-run Mastodon servers, but we lost probably ~85% of the folks in these communities during that move (and those Mastodon servers are run by non-profit volunteers with practically zero funding, who deal with a lot of direct abuse themselves, so turnover there has been high). Maybe 10% of the people have stayed on Twitter, in part because their job or career or income-stream depends on their continued Twitter participation, sure (especially artists, YouTubers, etc). But the good side of Twitter (or at least, all the communities I was involved in) is thoroughly dead.
But, you know, yeah, the doge logo thing was pretty sophomoric too, I suppose.
(just a guess) folks with marginalized identities / marginalized backgrounds, get force-fed this stuff a lot more often than others. If you look like a straight white guy (and/or those make up the bulk of your followers/followings) then they aren't going to send you nearly as much of it.
It's a little bit like TikTok's algorithm. If you tell me, "my TikTok is just dancing women", I know which side of TikTok you are on, and that it's not any of the sides I'm on. If you tell me, "everything's been mostly fine on Twitter" since the switch, your probably (perhaps unintentionally) telling me a lot about the kinds of people you follow, and the parts of Twitter you engage with.
> The biggest problems I've had with Twitter since Elon took over is having to see his unfunny jokes like tweets saying which planet they're sent from or making the logo a doge head for a few days.
The biggest problem I've had with Twitter since the switchover, is that the trust and safety department was entirely decimated, so all of my friends or light acquaintances were exposed to 10,000 times more harassment and bigotry than before by every random white supremacist / christian nationalist type, and those folks are now the bulk of Twitter's paying customers, coughing up their $8/month for a literal checkmark so that they can jump to the top of any comment reply, when doing that harassment. (Not saying everyone with a checkmark is a bad guy, but nearly all the bad guys we do encounter, have paid for it). The folks who have the patience to put up with staying online through all of that, have mostly moved to Cohost or trusted-admin-run Mastodon servers, but we lost probably ~85% of the folks in these communities during that move (and those Mastodon servers are run by non-profit volunteers with practically zero funding, who deal with a lot of direct abuse themselves, so turnover there has been high). Maybe 10% of the people have stayed on Twitter, in part because their job or career or income-stream depends on their continued Twitter participation, sure (especially artists, YouTubers, etc). But the good side of Twitter (or at least, all the communities I was involved in) is thoroughly dead.
But, you know, yeah, the doge logo thing was pretty sophomoric too, I suppose.