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by Gorgo 1520 days ago
Twitter is close to being the perfect perpetual rage generator, is that what you meant by calling it 'close to being perfect'? The format in combination with their nefarious algorithm makes for a nearly perfect polarisation machine where you're either 'with' or ´against' how Twitter-the-company wants you to think.
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I don't experience that at all. Everybody seems to be expecting a platform that only supports posts that are up to 280 characters in length to offer nuanced takes on politics, science, and news. When it doesn't they call it shit. Most of us are using it wrong, the algos are adjusting to that to sell ads, and everybody is miserable about it.