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I do wonder if people reporting bad experiences with other social media is more their own fault than the fault of the other socials. If you go out expecting to get censored, that can easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Autumn Sun ☀️🌘☯️ 1y ago

I have never been hard-censored (account bans or that sort of stuf), but I've seen many people participate in debate on public topics on Twixxer lose their accounts for innocuous stuff that the mobs didn't like and thus reported or mass reported.

I've always been squeaky clean, and I hate that I have to constantly "look over my shoulder" because stating facts in several domains now can make you a persona non grata in the eye of the always-online wokies and their fellow travelers, and that is often a doorway to more than one kind of unpleasantness.

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MichaelJ 1y ago

Has Twitter/X changed since Elon took over, in your experience?

Autumn Sun ☀️🌘☯️ 1y ago

Yes, especially since he threatened to sue the ADL, which of course didn't happen because he's all talk. Sometime in January he was invited to visit Auschwitz and make a public spiel about how he was wrong about anti-semitism or something like that. Linda Yaccarino (the formal CEO) posted about changes to their hate and defamation policy shortly thereafter.

I don't believe that I follow any anti-semitic accounts on X and I in any case don't sympathise with such notions (whatever it means, it's a very misused and watered-down concept at this point) so I haven't noticed if anyone got scrubbed on that basis. I see this as a clear about-face from the supposed "extreme freedom of speech" principle that Elon talked about up to and after his Twitter takeover, and this is not the first time he has shown himself as two-faced and unreliable, so I have little expectation that the hammer won't slso start falling elsewhere.

Autumn Sun ☀️🌘☯️ 1y ago

I got a little side tracked there, but yes, I am still seeing various accounts disappear regularly again, principally those engaged in the gender wars. There was a pause to that after Elon's takeover, but it's seeingly returned.

Other stuff is a large amount of seemingly unhandled bots mass spamming anyone with a checkmark, porn/thirst traps spam, and looots of newly registered trolls that do their darndest to make any debate on any worthwhile topic noisy.

Long story short: Twixxer is in the odd situation that it's seeing a massive amount of product development and also being possible less worthwhile than it used to be because of all the noise, which is quite remarkable to contemplate. It requires depressingly much use of muting and blocking to get a 'clean' feed.

MichaelJ 1y ago

I seem to recall that Elon said much of the censorship triggers were buried deep in the code and hard to remove. Maybe the temptation to use them for his own ends overwhelmed the desire to get rid of them entirely.