• Zetta
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    1 day ago

    The average person is a fucking moron man ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      23 hours ago

      average person uses x and when you tell them that x stands for everything wrong with the world they just say something like “yeah but Joe Schlimblio posts on x and I follow them”

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        21 hours ago

        Average *Japanese person.

        The usage of twitter was never as high as other social medias in Europe (and I presume other parts of the globe too).

        Looking at statista; it seems the main perpetrators are the US and Japan, (30% and 56% of the relative populations).

        From what I can tell (or be bothered to check); Japan is the only country with over half the population on X. Therefore making the sentence 'the average Japanese person uses X, to be true.

        On a tangent, I wonder what Japanese X is like; is it just a sea of hand drawn tentacle based erotica, and is the source of the countries porn? Or does it see the same types of nationalism drives that western X does? Is Grok rewriting Japanese empire war crimes?.. There’s a whole world on there we’re not privvy too.

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          Here in Japan, I used to use it to follow up and coming Japanese illustrators and webcomic artists, most of who tweeted fun, non-political, wholesome things. I got live updates whenever we had typhoons and earthquakes.

          Obviously there’s toxicity if you look for it, but I didn’t really see it. Which is why I honestly didn’t understand why so many people shit in Twitter especially on “tech/bologicallysocially-aware” circles like Reddit calling it toxic. The reason why I stopped was because Musk bought it, not because of the content I was seeing. Maybe I was just lucky.

          Note: This is just a single old man’s anecdote, so please take it with a huge grain of salt.

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            Grain of salt or not, your Insight into this is both valuable and appreciated; thank you for sharing.

            It’s interesting that even back then JP twitter wasn’t very political. On the English areas of the site a lot of political rhetoric definitely still found it’s home. Granted nowhere near as much as current levels; but I think that’s more of a statement on just how much musk has tried to turn X into a political weapon more than anything else.

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      Not even just average people. Exceptional people who absolutely know better still fall for this shit. The “marketplace of ideas” is a failure.

      If people want real ideas they need to grow them and care for them and that shit is hard and it will cost you time and money.

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      Fucking Moron Man! Defender of the average Joe, protector of the woefully mediocre! Without a thought in his head, but a spring in his step, he fights on with the conviction of a total idiot!