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 7 months agoThis 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.
FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Corgana@startrek.website 7 months 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.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 7 months 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.
USSEthernet@startrek.website 7 months ago
👋 hello fellow trekkie in the wild
Corgana@startrek.website 7 months ago
🖖 Hello fellow Website user!
USSEthernet@startrek.website 7 months 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.
Corgana@startrek.website 7 months ago
Hmm
Illogical.