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My perception is that people claim it’s polluted with white supremacy, but haven’t actually seen it unless they go looking for it specifically.

Hope this helps.

It’s still a big time suck for someone like me.

It is, and intentionally so. Elon's agenda with the platform is to elevate right-wing and conspiracy speech as much as possible to offset and spite the "woke mind virus" he believes turned his daughter transgender. It's turned into a real cesspool.

Unfortunately, there are also still a lot of good accounts there that haven't left for greener pastures, that's the nature of the network effect. I'm mostly on Mastodon but I still follow some people on Twitter, mostly art accounts.

Also I wouldn't worry so much about "echo chambers." It isn't difficult to find politics contrary to your worldview, whatever platform you're on, but that doesn't oblige you to force it into your eyeballs. There's nothing wrong with curation.

A thing with X/itter more than most social networks is you can choose your group. If you want white supremacists they are there. If you want top scientist they are there too. You have to be selective. I actually have three active accounts, one my normal one where I follow paulg and quite HN type stuff, a bitcoin focused one because I dabble but don't want that all the time, and I've got an old pro Russian Z account as I support Ukraine and was curious what the other side were on about.

It works best if you follow specific people who are leaders in whatever area you are interested in. Also if you use the 'for you' bit you have to keep clicking not interested on things to curate the junk.