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Comment by deadbabe | Hacker News Reader

X/Twitter is a gross network. It’s like posting links to 4chan.

It's just like the fediverse, what you see depends on where you hang out around. I can easily find extremely bad corners of the fediverse but again, that's not representative

I wish a map existed. I'd like to see the bad corners.

https://mapstodon.space/@comeetie/109354079049037380

It's weird to say but the "worst" parts (as in, questionably legal content and not just controversial content) in my experience has been in non English speaking instances. But just think of basically any community and they have a mastodon spin off, especially they have been deplatformed somewhere else.

Leave 4chan alone. 4chan compared to Twitter is Heaven

Dunno who you followed, but my little corner of twitter is not gross at all. A lot of smart people, doing cool things, and linking to interesting stuff.

AFAIK you can't curate stuff in 4chan by following/muting/blocking, so it's more like reddit or HN than twitter.

I don’t follow anyone on Twitter or even look at it. Content from there just feels slimy. Usually if someone posts a link, it’s something popular or viral, and that means the comments section will be filled with all kinds of crap. Right now I prefer Threads.

So a place on the Internet that's still fun? It's sad you're so serious that you're grossed out by that.

You might be from the Tumblr side of the tracks, a place of humorless, distributed Orwellian purity testing and virtue signalling where people sublimate their depression and anxiety disorders by trying to police and cancel each other online while pretending they're making the world a better place. That's way less gross than just having a good time. :D

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