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Wait, I’m shocked Xitter had numbers as high as 14% when it comes to dealing with hate speech…

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Once reported an obvious anti-Semitic post that I found (was curious if they actually would). Took them a week or two but they actually took it down. I was shocked.

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One engagement dies down around a post they can take it down and just pretend they’re oh so backlogged to save face.

Everyone saw it already, the damage was done.

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Of course, they might actually be backlogged because Musk fired almost everyone who dealt with that stuff. When you hamstring a department, they can quickly fall behind on their work.

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Twitter, as far as I have recalled, has almost always been a cesspool for hot takes and hate. Just with Elon in charge the flood gates have really opened and has acquired a particular flavor mimicking his own tastes.

The real question now is if this will ultimately lead to the ban or slow death of Twitter. People really can only put up with so much vitriol.

Many countries are lining up with laws and bill coming after social media, usually under the goal or “goal” of protecting kids, so we will see how things turn out. Might even be a quicker death/change then.

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Actually they’ll use anything they can to get that same fix twitter delivered before. The quality doesn’t matter if it’s their only outlet. Until a new app arrives to replace it, nothing will kill it. It’s like Davy Jones’ heart.

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There are alternatives on the horizon. But they always seem to be on the horizon. Bluesky?

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No idea, I really don’t use Twitter.

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Yeah, Jack Dorsey should not get a second chance. Twitter was already shit before Elon made it worse.

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Anything that used federated set ups like mastodon is automatically going to be too complex for most laymen users. I’m not sure is Bluesky is going to be any cop, seems to have been stuck in invite only mode for a while.

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Working as intended apparently, what a dumpster fire

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Of course they did.

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Hey, they did managed to react on my hate speech posts… against v.putin. Rather quickly too. So yeah, if you are a dictator, its all Gucci.

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