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>Twitter is more hostile than it's ever been.

>The first time a blog post is written about the Epic Dunk that AOC had on Ted Cruz...

How do you reconcile these two statements?

I feel the performative "mic drop" moment is a major source of toxicity on Twitter. A breath of fresh air would be a place that promoted thoughtful and empathetic conversations.

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It's apparently not hostile if you are epically dunking on people you disagree with.

I read the first one as OP meaning that Twitter is hostile to users, not that users are hostile to each other

Thoughtful and empathetic conversations is something few people want though. People like controversy and to some degree toxicity. So any new microbloging platform that wants to reach the user base of Twitter will have to turn into a version of Twitter at some point.

I suppose it's hard to have vitality+engagement and more tame discussion at the same time.

I like Mastodon, because it doesn't chase growth at all costs, but chooses to foster well-behaved communities (it's more like connected phpBB forums than Twitter). I can talk to a random stranger and actually share ideas, instead of getting caught in a loop of outrage and dunking.

I think that they meant that you'll know Twitter has definitely hit it's decline when other media is focusing on what's happening on other platforms instead of Twitter.

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