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by splintercell 988 days ago
I was asked today by someone if I used alternate social networks like Nostr, and my reasoning was simple, I don't, because this wouldn't be the first time I moved away from a mainstream social media and failed to find other platforms useful.

But far more importantly, I love Twitter/X because of the community notes feature. On an average I stop myself around 30% of the time when an unbelievable story gets community notes checked (i.e, 30% of the time a community notes correction, corrects my guess about the story being true, 70% of the time I still get it right).

It's an amazing algorithm, and the catfights in the community notes section (not visible to others, unless you are a part of CN team) are even more revealing and hilarious.

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Notes is really underrated. I know it's popular to hate Musk but as a feature it's been really great. A lot of times I'm like "Wow this seems crazy" and then Notes explains it a hoax. Very helpful imo