Twitter has end stage cancer by algorithm--one that promotes rage and attention seeking. As people who are repelled by such things leave, the dynamic is reinforced by the self-selected people who remain and the bots that game them.

Other social media communities exist that, while differing in details, lack this influence and this outcome.

Personally I've found the Fediverse (usually called Mastodon for its most popular client), and of course Nostr, immensely satisfying for this reason. Very different communities with very different norms, but neither suffer (at least in my corner of each) from this kind of perpetual rage bait and "engagement" seeking.

Yes, there is much objectionable (to me) content on both, but it is much easier to ignore as it is not promoted in your face.

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Agreed.. rage, racism, anti semitism, fights and anger, I tried to mute it all by kept getting horrible content of clearly biased people. Terrible algo, so glad I'm out of that dumpster.

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Rage, attention seeking... and scams, wallet drainers, fake news...

This was exactly my point when discussing nostr vs. twitter with a friend of mine. There's garbage on both sides, it's just way easier to filter it on nostr

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How humanity reacts in the next 10 years will echo for eons.

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People must consider the ramifications of these. We either fight for all of humanity or none. Everyone needs to accept the #information #truth

World War 3 has been on for years.

Really the lack of any algo entirely solves the problem.

If you can't game the algo, when you try to be a loud mouthed influencer, people will just unfollow you.

With an algo, you will keep fishing low IQ morons as followers and somehow think that you are on to something.

This is a reply I can get behind.

Decentralize the world and enjoy the results