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This isn’t pointed out enough, IMO. People act like it went sharply downhill under Musk but this is the platform that enabled extremists for years and only even banned Trump when he did a literal Jan 6th. Maybe Twitter was good in like 2010 but I really don’t think Musk changed THAT much about it.

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USSEthernet@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
👋 hello fellow trekkie in the wild

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- Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  🖖 Hello fellow Website user!
  
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  - USSEthernet@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Lol I got down voted for saying hi to a fellow trekkie that’s also on the same trek instance as me. I’m pretty sure we are a small instance, so randomly coming across another person from our instance is kinda rare.
    
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    Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Hmm
    
    Illogical.
    
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FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s just because people are being TOLD that it’s bad now. It’s literally no worse than it was 5 years ago. Twitter has always been a cesspool of human “thought”.

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- Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Agree completely. I think it might be easier for journalists (et al) to tell themselves “Elon made it bad” than it is to admit they had been contributing their efforts to a bad place all this time. Twitter was never very big, and most people avoided it like the plague, but there is a certain class of person who got addicted easily.
  
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Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Okay, but the new Twitter reinstated him, and a bunch of Nazis.

I mean, old Twitter was jokingly called “the hellsite” by its users but the Muskening is quite a lot worse.

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