Twitter obviously has always had huge downsides, but if you heavily curated your feed, it was sometimes ok. There were socialist/communist circles that had decent discourse.
Recently (last few months), I’ve noticed almost EVERY thread is infested with combative libs.
I also see literal pro-Nazi/fascist threads. I’m talking about praising Hitler and calling for ethnic cleansing. They never seem to get taken down and are very active (often with little resistance).
These threads are not something I’ve dug for either. They are easy to stumble upon.
This is almost exactly what happened to Reddit, which is pretty much worthless now. I haven’t logged on in weeks.
I need to research more, but I know most social media companies have been infiltrated by ‘former’ US security stooges from the CIA etc.
I know anything remotely left wing gets suppressed by the algorithms, but I’m pretty convinced they are pushing hard right content.
This morning 8AM I got a message from a guy on there who I was talking to last night about how humans are different from other animals and how/if/why we are successful. He tends to focus on stuff like that and science.
He said he got suspended second time apparently for saying he wishes Biden gets long COVID. I try messaging him back a few hours later and his account is gone. https://twitter.com/erasmix
Anyways don’t trust twitter. I have a presence on there and I basically keep it up to draw attention off of that cursed site and to sites like lemmygrad and to my own sites.
I deleted my personal Twitter and made an anonymous profile strictly to view content. It’s private and I don’t tweet at all. It’s better this way, but sometimes it’s still pretty bad.
Yea scrolling thru Twitter arguments is sometimes like watching a bad fight. No slams or good hits, just swings and misses everywhere until someone gets ratio’ed and the debate comes to a close
Love watching people argue about what communism is and somehow every single person is wrong.