Recently I had been going on Twitter a lot instinctively when I was bored. I guess I liked the interactions but tbh it’s so bad. Left Twitter has 3 kinds of people: (1) Acts like they are the embodiment of Marxism, nobody else knows anything and nobody else reads according to them. (2) Doesn’t care about theory or material conditions, just looking for a controversial side to join and loves posting about Russia and Jackson Hinkle/Haz. (3) Wreckers (on purpose or not makes little difference) who want to shut down any and all acts of popular resistance because “nothing ever happens”. “What are these campus protests even doing for the people in Palestine?” They say while ignoring Yemeni and Lebanese rallies with posters addressing students to continue their protests. And I would add the folks trying to become a “character” or something or like the voice of Left Twitter, but usually they fall into of the previous 3 categories (feel free to add any that you think I missed). And that’s just the Left. At LEAST they have decent takes to start with that they can ruin slowly over time. Then you get to the libs who have all been scratched. Then you push further right and you get people with usernames I can’t even say here and yet they aren’t banned from Twitter. Not to mention all the incels putting Ancient Rome on a pedestal when they would probably be slaves or merchants at best. I tried to quit Twitter a week ago and it was tough at first, but now I wanna make it like 3 weeks. If I’m still not missing Twitter I’ll prob just keep it for when friends and family send me posts from it but I probably won’t scroll thru.

  • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    I have never used twitter, never saw the appeal. Whatever is worth saying cannot be said in 140 characters. Then they came up with threads, long chains of short posts… even SMS overcame that problem years ago.

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      1 month ago

      The only reason I downloaded it was to watch vids that friends/fam sent me. Then I started following accounts I like (Adam Friedland,Chapo hosts,a few comedians and a few leftist party accounts) and eventually I started commenting and later posting. I get the appeal but now that Elon owns it, they have had a plague of porn bots that descend upon like 4 out of every 10 posts which is a huge problem ever since Elon fired like all of the content moderation team because of ThE WoKe ViRuS