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by krapp on Friday August 09, 2024 @10:50PM
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>massively polluted with white supremacists and the like. And overrun with conspiracy theories to boot!
It is, and intentionally so. Elon's agenda with the platform is to elevate right-wing and conspiracy speech as much as possible to offset and spite the "woke mind virus" he believes turned his daughter transgender. It's turned into a real cesspool.
Unfortunately, there are also still a lot of good accounts there that haven't left for greener pastures, that's the nature of the network effect. I'm mostly on Mastodon but I still follow some people on Twitter, mostly art accounts.
Also I wouldn't worry so much about "echo chambers." It isn't difficult to find politics contrary to your worldview, whatever platform you're on, but that doesn't oblige you to force it into your eyeballs. There's nothing wrong with curation.
It is, and intentionally so. Elon's agenda with the platform is to elevate right-wing and conspiracy speech as much as possible to offset and spite the "woke mind virus" he believes turned his daughter transgender. It's turned into a real cesspool.
Unfortunately, there are also still a lot of good accounts there that haven't left for greener pastures, that's the nature of the network effect. I'm mostly on Mastodon but I still follow some people on Twitter, mostly art accounts.
Also I wouldn't worry so much about "echo chambers." It isn't difficult to find politics contrary to your worldview, whatever platform you're on, but that doesn't oblige you to force it into your eyeballs. There's nothing wrong with curation.