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Is it weird that if I do not have an account on X, I also have no idea what X actually is? If I go to the home page, it just says "Happening now". No idea what that means though. If I then navigate to the tiny "About" link, I'm not getting any smarter. The "About the company" page takes to a 404. So, unless you know already what X is, you have no obvious way to find out what it is either.

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Today it’s primarily porn site where you can also discuss sports and post Nazi memes while getting flooded with crypto scams.

There’s also a dwindling number of Silicon Valley influencers who still maintain the old pretense that it’s a globally important news forum and a place for serious people to interact. They’re an island in a rising sea of shit.

I’m genuinely hoping there’s something that pushes the AI/ML academic community off the site but until that happens it’s one of the better places to discover info

Yeah, I’ve been pretty disappointed to see the indie hacker community mostly remain there. Not sure what event would finally trigger the exodus at this point.

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