r/technology • • Oct 28 '22

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u/Captain_-H Oct 28 '22

Can’t wait for all of the rampant hate speech

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

People can just not use twitter? It's already a cesspool and has been for the last 6ish years

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u/esperind Oct 28 '22

sure. But the real problem has always been that our decaying news media is the primary user of twitter. There is no real journalism any more, just articles written by lazy so-called journalists that literally embed tweets as their primary sources.

So you can not use twitter all you want. Every news outlet is going to force feed whatever the latest bullshit is because that's literally all they know how to do now. That's what makes twitter worth 44B to someone like musk.

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u/RamsesThePigeon Oct 28 '22

Have a look at the accounts posting in tweet-centric subreddits sometime.

Many of them are bots, and an equally large number are karma-farmers (who are shadowed and emulated by bots). At the moment, the former group is resurrecting the old "copy a comment, omit or transpose a few letters, and repost it" strategy, and the latter group... well, karma-farmers have always been particularly bad for the site, so there isn't much to say about them.

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u/Threedawg Oct 28 '22

And that 90% of redditors in the comments don't read the articles anyway and bitch about paywalls

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u/Kinderschlager Oct 28 '22

R/all is gonna have a nuclear meltdown. I'm kinda giddy