Wow even nature.com has an article about how bad twitter has become, did not see that one coming.
they’ve been posting their dumb political takes for years now.
You’re aware that Nature is a multidisciplinary scientific journal, yes?
If you’re insinuating that Nature is generally overtly political, you should really see someone to get that cranial-rectal inversion checked out.
…such as?
It’s always been bad.
but it has become much worse in the past year
because you’re being told it is. twitter has always been a cesspool.
old twitter at least pretended to fight hate speech and disinformation, the
“new” twitterX doesn’t give a flying fuck to both issues
Not nearly this bad. Go read the article. It’s much easier to spread crap nowadays, even though you could before.
This isn’t pointed out enough, IMO. People act like it went sharply downhill under Musk but this is the platform that enabled extremists for years and only even banned Trump when he literally tried to overthrow democracy. Maybe Twitter was good in like 2010 but I really don’t think Musk changed THAT much about it.
👋 hello fellow trekkie in the wild
🖖 Hello fellow Website user!
Lol I got down voted for saying hi to a fellow trekkie that’s also on the same trek instance as me. I’m pretty sure we are a small instance, so randomly coming across another person from our instance is kinda rare.
Illogical.
It’s always been a cesspit of misinformation… Phony Stark is now merely advertising it as a feature.
Love that nickname! Imma steal it.
Twitter’s influence has always been overstated by the media type, and the personalized recommendation algorithm it used has always been a black box to be gamed, and what this article really showed is that it is an inheritly unfair game and the people who writes the rules of the platform (in this case, Musk), can push whatever hot take they want to push to influence public opinion, and people who don’t have that level of access to Twitter will brute force follower with bots in the hopes that it’ll lure more real users to influence.
So, dead internet theory and all, until we fully automate Twitter to bots influencing bots. There is no authenticity anymore, it’s all disinformation from all sides.
Nowadays, I like to pretend that I never had a Twitter or Insta. Not a healthy way of coping, I know, but it’s way less stressful that way.
So just like old Twitter, who cares, shut it down.
To paraphrase Mitch “RIP” Hedburg: I’m a cesspool of disinformation. I used to be a cesspool of disinformation, but I’m still one, too.
Didn’t the mods say they were going to do something about musk/Twitter spam?
This isn’t even about something Twitter did
This isn’t even about something Twitter might do
This is just a dude talking about what everybody knows about Twitter. And musk fans upvote anything Twitter, and musk haters upvote this out of a sense of validation that is shit.
Voting is not good for this, please ban the musk spam
Block it yourself. Block the words “elon” and “musk”. You won’t miss anything.
I once read a quote that roughly translates as “Even the greatest wizard of all time can’t transform bread into bread”.
I always thought it was stupid, but makes more sense now.
Becoming?
I mean if this was written in 2010 I would definitely agree.
Just like the old Twitter
“This shitty site is still shitty! Click our article pleeeeease”
Removed by mod
It’s a feature, not a bug.
Well duh
As Elon and the Saudis intended.
