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It's all about who you follow. My feed is mostly AI people, entrepreneurs and nerds. Some political stuff gets through, but otherwise, I'm glad to be back on X in the last few months (I left a few years ago in disgust over the insane politics because even nerds were only talking politics).

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No, that’s just solving for you. The person you are responding to is asking for an ethical stand; just because you can ignore it doesn’t mean it’s not there.

This is the same bullshit that people bring up with Facebook, there’s no reason we can’t apply the same rubric to Twitter.

Sorry, I don't follow. Are you saying that he should leave a social network website because some of its users are bad? Or that the people that run the website are bad?

And also, there's some alternate microblogging site that is less hostile to truth and civility? Which site is that?

Lots of the users are bad, but the owner specifically tweaks and changes the algorithm to suit his own agenda and push his stance. That's what makes it an unserious platform.

> And also, there's some alternate microblogging site that is less hostile to truth and civility? Which site is that?

Mastodon, by definition. Any hostile instance can be left for a better one.

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