[bnt]

This is obviously not a popular opinion, but: I think this is great news. In the world of Meta dominating social media (+ TikTok now de facto in 2nd spot), we need diversity in the field.

Twitter (X) definitely changed in the past year, but I see it as a positive change (maybe it's my bubble) - my tech feed is no longer polluted by people fighting about left vs right, Trump etc, my feed is now tech people sharing tech-related content and I love it.

[donohoe]

Yeah, its definitely your bubble. I'm seeing much more racism, trolling, and abuse. And from talking with other folks (IRL) I don't think this is my own bubble either.

[delecti]

Also, much more racism, trolling, and abuse are all promoted. The blue-check replies are among the worst of it, and now they're pushed to the top.

[deltaomega]

Interesting, it’s the opposite for my feed. For 10 years I came to twitter for the exchange of ideas, learned so much about tech and business, developed friendships and connections that changed my life.

Now every time I open my feed it reminds me of trash tv. Ads for weed gummies every 8th tweet, crazy rhetoric and political content from extremist politicians I’ve often never even heard of, Elon musk himself - who I don’t follow - pushed into my face, forcing me to see his angry tweets, first, every time I load the app.

Beyond the drama, I used to get a lot of value in reading threads and now the comments are all garbage? Finding anything useful requires me scrolling past a long list of reply guys and often what just seems like spam.

It genuinely makes me sad to lose such a useful product :(.

[ReptileMan]

Twitter disrupted the ability of mobs to self organize and some of the most toxic culture warriors left for Mastodon. So the people left there are the ones that can live with the idea that wrongthink exists and there is no need to be extinguished.

[TkTech]

Conversely, I can only find that now on mastodon, where it only shows me who I've explicitly followed and not some algorithmic feed.

Just took a look at my Twitter homepage. It's hate speech, aliens live along us, flight tracking (?), various conspiracy theories and weird American right-wing crap (I'm not even American), and a couple of tech posts. It's become complete garbage.

[paulddraper]

I agree.

Twitter kicked out a lot of right wing zealots, and now I think the left wing zealots have left for greener pastures.

[nindalf]

Good for you for only thinking about your experience. If only everyone would be similarly narrow-minded, then X could truly thrive.