Why do people hate Twitter/X? (aside from the owner's behavior)

[Xdqwerty]

I have been using it for a while and I think I got adapted somewhat well and got several mutuals, but I often see people bashing it

 

[SylverReZ]

Politics and AI shitposting, which is why I gave up using Twitter now. Plus the majority of folks who use it are 40-50 year old boomer dads, compared to the rest who instead resort to BlueSky after Elon bought out the company.

 

[Xdqwerty]

Politics and AI shitposting, which is why I gave up using Twitter now. Plus the majority of folks who use it are 40-50 year old boomer dads, compared to the rest who instead resort to BlueSky after Elon bought out the company.

I honestly couldnt get adapted to bluesky plus the fact that its basically a zombie platform

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Plus the majority of folks who use it are 40-50 year old boomer dads

And most if not all of my mutuals arent middle aged afaik

 

[Veho]

Aside from the owner's behavior?
The users' behavior.

 

[Xdqwerty]

Aside from the owner's behavior?
The users' behavior.

As in what?

 

[Armadillo]

Locking posts behind an account. Lots of companies only use twitter for updates, that was fine before, don't care about it, don't make an account, but you can still see announcements or similar.

Then suddenly you need an account to try and strongarm people who don't care about what idiots are talking about on twitter, but still want to see official updates, announcements and similar to make one.

Luckily you can use nitter or similar to carry on as you were, but it's extra hassle, so that's why I don't like it.

 

[Exnor]

AI shitposting; pushing an fascist agenda and i never really liked twitter before Musk.

Musk is just the cherry on the top of the turd cake.

 

[Xdqwerty]

pushing an fascist agenda

Most of my mutuals are latin american so I don't get that kind of posts

 

[The Catboy]

It was bad before, and it's worse now. Elon's changes made it worse

 

[Xdqwerty]

(if you ask, i'm not defending Twitter per se, just sharing my experience)

 

[Exnor]

Most of my mutuals are latin american so I don't get that kind of posts

Well Latin America is full of fascists too so....

 

[gnmmarechal]

As in what?

As in what? It's a cesspool, aided by the fact that many people who very much dislike the degenerate owner have left, thus increasing the percentage of active users who ARE degenerates themselves. I don't see why one would want to "get adapted to it".

 

[Xdqwerty]

I guess my experience is now invalid

 

[Veho]

As in what?

As in, half of the human users (the very very few actual active human users, the majority are bots) are engagement farms posting political ragebait from fake profiles to make money off monetization. As the recent account location fiasco has shown.

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I guess my experience is now invalid

Have you heard of sampling bias? Your experience is not invalid, it's just not universal.

 

[emigre]

I would say the owner being a fucking fascist and pushing far right agenda is probably a big deal.

 

[Xdqwerty]

I would say the owner being a fucking fascist and pushing far right agenda is probably a big deal.

The thread title says that I want reasons not related to Elon

 

[gnmmarechal]

You seem to want someone to validate your choice in social media. This hardly seems useful. You're free to use whatever you want, and you might carve out a small space to separate your bubble from the underlying bullshit - but you won't, really, and the fact that you're choosing to use it is by no means a neutral choice.

 

[Xdqwerty]

You seem to want someone to validate your choice in social media. This hardly seems useful. You're free to use whatever you want, and you might carve out a small space to separate your bubble from the underlying bullshit - but you won't, really, and the fact that you're choosing to use it is by no means a neutral choice.

I just wanted to hear other people's viewpoints

 

[emigre]

The thread title says that I want reasons not related to Elon

You may as well go start a thread called why do people hate the Nazi party aside from Hitler's behavior.

 

[Flame]

@Xdqwerty I think twatter is amazing. happy?

Did you know most of the far right big accounts in twatter are run by people in countries to build up hate in other countries, which have nothing to do with that country in the first place? For example. All these MAGA accounts with half millions of followers are based in Pakistan, Bangladesh or Nigeria. AKA Russian paid.

You're from Venezuela right, twatter is being used to justify invading Venezuela. AKA brainwashing.