Spent 2 minutes on here. Looks like it's just attracting conspiracy nuts. Deleted my account.
I returned back to look at Twitter again after blocking it for months and it is just as bad as Parler, but with more lunatics and rabid bots everywhere.
There are still very crazy users on Twitter especially those who fancy taking down 'The oppressive capitalist system™' if that suits you more.
All I can say to those who enjoy this is, let's see if you're willing to pay for it all soon. [0]
[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/8/21317266/twitter-subscript...
I mean, if my only two choices are a fairer form of capitalism or the resurgence of neo-Nazism, I guess I'll pick the former.
If the only two choices are the abolition of captialism or the resurgence of neo-Nazism, I'd still pick the former.
I'm being facetious, but to be fair to Twitter, there's a lot of "sub-cultures" within it. All extremes appear to be well represented. Parler appears to be 4chan with a nicer user interface.
Surprising insights arise from pondering the philosophy of show and tell-specifically how listening is involved in order to “earn” your turn to speak.
Do you ever look at what you've written and ask yourself: "Would somebody else understand this"? Could you say it again, but using enough words this time?
When platforms ban assholes and other platforms arise in the guise of decreasing censorship, said assholes flock to new platforms and infest them a la Ruqqus (though I believe the developer/founders have positive intent)
We need more clever ways of finding the assholes. I mentioned show and tell in my comment above. When you think about how show and tell works, you must earn your right to show and that works fairly well, even when you scale the idea. Does that make more sense?