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Comment by zorbash | Hacker News Reader

Exactly, I even thought of taking a break off Twitter for a few months. It's getting more and more toxic, just like our environment. How can people express such hate, for a 16 old stating what should be obvious?

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I'm not on Twitter but I know exactly what you mean. These days I check hackernews and a forum for a hobby I'm into and that's it. I'll read google news in the morning but I don't go too far (I stay away from opinion pieces).

it's just too toxic and I don't need that in my head.

In my experience even HN has had bad faith and low-substance discussion about certain topics like the recent Stallman ousting and tech employees claiming discrimination. They tend to be filled with people who make claims without understanding the context of events, then deny any provided context as illegitimate and continue on repeating their position.

touche, I admit nothing is going to be completely immune. It is the Internet after all.

I find the separation between "the internet" interesting. You mean... a connected group of all humanity?

I highly recommend going in your profile settings and allow dead/flagged posts. This post has already been flagged and there are a bunch of interesting comments that are below the threshold of what you'd normally see.

I find twitter really great. Not for discussing politics though, this is better left to echo chambers like reddit . But the universe of information and opinion there is really unparalleled. You just have to unfollow people who tend to retweet their political opinions even though they are are unrelated to their main feed; that's just rude behaviour.

To each their own. I don't have much to follow, so I go to explore tab to see what Twitter suggest (pretty like this feature). I've noticed two opposing categories now, occasionally picking up same issue.

Group 1: Stock traders - example opinion "Greta is groomed by some sick fuck, no child should act like that".

Group 2: Software developers - mostly never about software; example opinion - a bit like OP.

So the toxicity I'm trying to avoid - anything about US politics, US news, guns, environment(when there's no tech discussed) gender or race.

I stopped going habitually a few months back and it's been good. I still check every now and then and it seems to be getting something like 10% worse every month - not enough to notice if you check it every day but if only every couple of weeks the downward trajectory of the discourse and the overall sentiment is really noticeable.

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