[hedora]

I guess if you want to follow people like terrorists, Trump and criminals, then Twitter is the place for you.

It is pretty wild that centralized automated content moderation amplifies their voices, but decentralized manual moderation shuts such lunacy down.

[idlewords]

I've been on Twitter for going on fifteen years and have yet to see a Taliban tweet. The advantage of having everything in one place is obvious, you can find the most obscure stuff. But by the same token, lots of bad stuff will be on there. The responsibility to choose what to look at wisely rests on the user much more than "the algorithm".

I'm sure a 200 user Mastodon instance moderated by a vigilant hall monitor will not have a problem with Taliban content, but then it won't offer any of what makes Twitter an interesting site.

[leereeves]

I don't think Twitter amplifies the Taliban or drug cartels, in many years on Twitter I've never seen a tweet by them.

[dazc]

Trump doesn't post anything on twitter, if this helps?