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Re:Ribbonfarm Is Retiring by tbrownaw on Saturday October 19, 2024 @08:32PM (#41891945)
> avalanche of smut on Twitter/X

I haven't seen this.

Maybe you only run into that sort of thing if you go looking for that sort of thing?

Re:Ribbonfarm Is Retiring by julianeon on Saturday October 19, 2024 @10:35PM (#41892477)
Even if you accept this at face value (I don’t) note the problem: on Bluesky and Mastodon, you have to look for racy content and then follow it on purpose. It must be a deliberate, intentional choice. For the average user, my experience has been that Bluesky and Mastodon are, if anything, too tame and boring.

Whereas Twitter/X is pushing for whatever brings engagement, damn the consequences.

Re:Ribbonfarm Is Retiring by add-sub-mul-div on Saturday October 19, 2024 @09:51PM (#41892286)
The top replies to any big viral tweet are Onlyfans models and other spammers.
Re:Ribbonfarm Is Retiring by tbrownaw on Sunday October 20, 2024 @12:00AM (#41892757)
I usually have to expand the "more replies" and often also the "probably spam" sections to see those.
Re:Ribbonfarm Is Retiring by aaronbrethorst on Sunday October 20, 2024 @01:22AM (#41893076)
It’s incredibly hard to avoid graphic images of dead children if you even lightly engage with political content on Xitter