[richrichie]

Question is if it is really that toxic. There are many successful people on X. You can always follow who you want and manage topics of interest. It is quite possible to avoid both deranged Trump haters and Biden/Kamala haters who don’t add value.

[qwertox]

Not really. You archive that by liking, following, blocking and muting. And once you do that, you create an account which is very much an extreme bubble, because of the recommendation's engine profile which is generated for you, and which you can't tweak. You can't say: "Show me no politics, even from people I follow". You can't backlist topics. The auto-generated list is not helpful, because you can only uncheck auto-recommended topics.

"Ignore political tweets except those coming from politicians or journalists with at least x followers"

My Twitter account is very nice, because I only see AI and 3D programming stuff. No politics or other stuff. It's a bubble.

I have another Twitter account which is relatively new (in terms of "use", but exists since the beginnings), which I use to see what is getting posted about politics and which topics are trending, and I always end up in a bad mood, because there I see how horribly Twitter is getting used to promote hatred.

Maybe Twitter is more extreme in Germany, in terms of negativity, as there the far right has taken over. Add to this Elon's posts, who I wouldn't be surprised is living in an extreme bubble on Twitter, where all looks "nice" to him, in terms of "freedom of speech". I'm not sure if he's aware of what's really going on in Germany on his platform. It is extremely toxic. It adds no value to a democratic discourse.

Am I in a bubble because of my AI-3D-filtered account? No, because I also read news to stay informed about politics and society, but for others the other news sources are Telegram and TikTok.