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> highly toxic and mostly just produces shitstorms, lynchmobs, perpetually enraged morally superior idiots and professional victims.

This is self inflicted. My Twitter feed feels like a really big friend group talking/joking about anime, tech, finance, etc. You are quite literally the company you keep on Twitter.

> Because chances are the people who talk too much have no time to think about what they're saying.

You won't get far taking the website this serious.

(I should add that I'm black and so are most of the people I follow so it's possible I'm basing this off a group of people that already have some larger sense of community off the bat)

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Honestly CryptoTwitter, the part that isn't all scams, is the only tolerable part of twitter I've found. It's mostly shitposts and jokes, with the occasional good deed like raising money for people in unfortunate circumstances. Every other community I've encountered on Twitter is a dumpster fire. A perpetual competition to see who is the most oppressed.

Besides the gamified nature of crypto, I think what makes CT such a hopeful place is the way everyone shares the same goal of “making it” and keeps the reason they do it in mind. Even in hard times (like now) they can keep laughing because it may all be worth it in the end.

Compare this to politics where the end is never in sight and the goal posts are eternally moving.

I dont have twitter, but I click in twitter links here and there when they are posted on forums. Every time I scroll down from whatever tweet was linked, I seem to immediately end up seeing what I would consider partisan stuff about covid or other current events. Maybe on a personal feed it is different but it does seem set up to lure people into debate or disagreement.

I think the point is that random tweets - especially replies - may be low quality. But the 'curated' tweets from those you follow are much more likely to have value.

> This is self inflicted.

Not totally accurate. I have a highly curated twitter made up of finance and tech yet the suggested trends are HORRIBLE. Wonderful topics such as "Nazis", "RacistSoAndSo", "JimCrow", "UncleTom" etc etc etc.

Its a black hole, pile on of hate. I call it the trending two minutes of hate; and its built in with no way of turning it off.

It's much better if you train yourself to ignore that sidebar. I'm sure with the right plugin you could just hide it permanently via css if it's distracting.

That’s strange. My current suggested trends are “Future Hendrix” (rapper), “Kanye”, and “No Way Home” (the Spider-Man movie).

If I had to guess I’d say it goes off what your following is interacting with/talking about at the moment. I notice they get more negative when my timeline is talking about something more controversial.

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