Twitter is mainly mental illness.
My dad uses X and I have slowly watched his descent into madness. So whatever is done on there, it isn’t good
My aunt used to try to convince me to get Twitter, but she couldn’t explain what she thought I could do with Twitter that I couldn’t do with Facebook
There are relatively small communities that have network effects there. For example, folks working on AI research are very clearly not welcome on mastodon or bluesky. So conference announcements, new results (and hot takes on them), and funding opportunities are best found there. Used to be a functional subreddit, but the exodus and spam killed that. I assume there are a dozen similar topics.
(Shame that the folks most institutionally able and interested in AI regulation are on the musk propaganda machine. That bothers me. But I get that many people are tired of AI being shoved in their face.)
It always seemed like shouting in a room full of people. Any coherent thought instantly became an unreadable mess due to the post character limit. Never understood live-tweeting. You could DM some company’s support person… but why?
And I blame link shorteners’ existence on twitter, too.
For some people it kind of seems like just shouting at an empty room. I recently found a (now ex)friend’s Bluesky, which opened a whole can of worms.
But his whole thing was basically complaining about whatever he could with no one listening. Then complaining that no one was interacting.
It was like the equivalent of him having a stage in an empty room and just yelling about random shit. Then yelling that there’s no one else in the room. I don’t get it
i thought whatsapp would make a public version and clean up at some point but they never did
They used to Tweet.
Now they sXhit.
On Twitter Twits Tweeted Twats
On Xitter Xits are Xitting Xats
(The X is pronounced sh like ship)
They just fund and spread Nazi hate now, not that complicated.
Probably unpopular opinion: people hate “the algorithm” but you really need one for websites like Twitter; Mastodon feels absolutely dead due to lack of one. Just hashtags aren’t enough, a post looks ridiculous the more you put them.
I wish I didn’t have to use them but Reddit and Twitter are the go to for anything about local news and sports, and I occasionally see some absolutely banging content from people I’m not subscribed from their feeds.
It’s quite like reddit, but without threads or subs: just a nearly infinite list of comments made on anything. You only get to see what a comment (tweet) is about when there’s a tag on them or when they are a response to another tweet.
Twitter’s UX was generally better suited for some stuff like live events where you may want to see other people’s comments but only in real time - a 3 minute old tweet in this context is just useless data.
From what i gather, they’re debating whether they are team Hitler or team new Hitler (Netanyahu)
Agree. I don’t understand following a person instead of a topic. I did follow a few bars, restaurants, etc. to see happy hours info.
Other way around for me. I only ever went on there to see artists and hobbyists and cool people do cool things. Many cool people have gone elsewhere which is nice.
To be honest, I’ve never understood it either, but I’ve used it in the past to find artists and fanart. Only because I understood Tumblr even less. Twitter was great for artists, or at least for my art enjoyment.
