The X algorithm runs on addiction and agitation, pitting people against each other. On top of that, it is ground zero for astroturfing as well as an infinite variety of ops by intelligence services and governments.

More and more I think the poisonous impact of this thing on the world’s psyche is not well understood at all.

The globohomo elite probably gets it to an extent, but more in the sense of how it’s a threat to them that the propaganda war is now waged on a public battlefield where they don’t have an advantage, or worse, may have a disadvantage. That enrages them.

But the right wingers, conservative types, libertarians etc who are often cheering it on, are also useful idiots to an extent. Tools for the propaganda czars trying to have their impact on the battlefield.

Why any normal person would spend even a minute of their time there, is truly beyond me. Literal mind poison. Decentralised algorithm free social media FTW.

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I had a Twitter account for about 30 days, mentally rejected how it made me feel, and spit it out like poison. It literally makes one ill. It begs the question: If you are consuming content (podcasts and Nostr content) from “influencers” that still spend the majority of their social media time on X, are you not still essentially getting the products of algorithmically deranged people on your feed? Just without seeing all the rage-baity bot responses?

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