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Man, another million comment thread with the same arguments.

Of course it can turn into a cesspool. Of course there are ways around that problem. Like allowing more customizability for users.

For example: an ‘old Twitter’ filter that would only show content compatible with the old moderation norms.

Use your imagination, intelligent tech folks, instead of airing the same hyperventilating opinions.

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But what if - and just hear me out here - there are not ways around the fundamental problems of social media platforms as they exist today?

I think we've had plenty of years to demonstrate a way to make it work without the toxicity and damage to society, yet we've not done so - even with the most scrutinized platforms in history and the world's most capable software engineers.

We are social creatures. Social media is not at all an incarnation of 'society' in which we can function.

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