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Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by downWidOutaFite on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:35PM (#35919332)
Every popular political thread on there is now a blue-check right-wing echo chamber. I guess if that's your personal political bubble it feels great, but I don't think that's the "average" user.
Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by prepend on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:50PM (#35919576)
If this stops every political threads then I’m all for it. It’s weird to me how people were so into it and I had a few friends who became tough to talk to because it was always trying to convey some esoteric (to me) twitter screaming match.

This doesn’t seem like a loss to me as I feel that kind of stuff isn’t only boring to me but kind of worse to have people so angry about politics. So this seems like a positive development to me if it’s now clearly just a right-wing echo chamber that people can now ignore.

I’m not a heavy user and haven’t noticed any changes really, but I never interacted with blue check mark people and always thought it was kind of a lame feature. And is still lame that people can pay for it.

Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by dandellion on Friday May 12, 2023 @02:01PM (#35919733)
How can we tell if that's not the average user and they are in a bubble, or that is the average user and it's us in a bubble?
Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by downWidOutaFite on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:39PM (#35921237)
Right, that's the propaganda game, to make normies think that these right wing trolls are the average opinion.
Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by RoyGBivCap on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:24PM (#35921867)
Right, that's the propaganda game, to make normies think that these left wing trolls are the average opinion.
Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by downWidOutaFite on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:40PM (#35922083)
Are you a bot?
Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by RoyGBivCap on Friday May 12, 2023 @07:06PM (#35923646)
Are you?