Had a week away from Twitter, popped back in and its horrible, so toxic, absolute and extreme. Without sounding dramatic, shit algorithms are sending humanity to a cliff edge, likely ww3.

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Mine is the opposite. Full of startup porn. Constant MRR self congratulations. Kinda sickens you. I only pop in for a bit of design inspiration and share some tweets but can’t stick around long.
I just get fed stuff the algo thinks will ragebait me for engagement. It used to work. Now I don’t care, for my sanity’s sake. Ignorance is bliss or something
Totally true. Social anxiety, division within societies and decrease in genuine discussions are clearly caused by those algorythms. Social science shows, that more polarized posts generate more comments, more reposts and let people use an app for more time. So. Every eyeball capturing machine automatically tends to push every individual towards more polarized content every day. And we are not strong enough as individuals to win against those algos. The only option is to use better ones. Such algos that prefer right above wrong. And yes so often right is might very boring.
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Moist yesterday
the world ain't that bad. just look at the world cup. the doom merchants said it was going to be an epic failure. but just shows all humanity needs is a few beers, a bit of sunshine, and a sing along. maybe a kilt as well. and look at Seattle. people in American flags, cheering a military fly over, getting all patriotic. who saw that coming?
Give us the dramatic sounding take 😄 I agree , good source of news but in small doses only to protect my sanity
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Rodrigo yesterday
Agrees, I just went through the same thing
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n1nja yesterday
Nostr is still very birds of a particular plumage and I hope that it will be tamed and homogenised for the Public
Every one pseudonyms was banned there, one after the other, years ago. Not because I was profane or inciteful, but because I was saying what Tulsi Gabbard said the other day about the Fauci cabal and their scamdemic.
It's been 2 weeks or so off X for me, since i got perma muted and ya, i do feel more chill
Not WW3 - just extreme enough to build the narrative to justify handing the country over to Palantir’s digital ‘minority report’ gulag.
It's worse in some ways and better in others. There is far more interesting content, like anything related to local AI which is nonexistent here
I hit X maybe once every couple months. Only joined twitter for Bitcoin Twitter.. Now unless they are here they don't get my attention.. Still FB, cause family/friends.. And that place is a steaming pile of shit!! Toxic garbage!