Nature reports that scientists are leaving Twitter. Overwhelmed by anti-science and far-right material, which is often shoved at them by the site’s trending topics and other algorithmic feeds…

  • GadgeteerZA@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    X has got horribly toxic - just not the place to have any type of discussion any more. I’ll bet two years back no-one would ever have though X could go down like this. I always thought it was going to happen to Facebook first, but seems Zuck is at least not as simple-minded as Elon is.

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      1 year ago

      Twatter has been toxic for years, the only reason its obvious now is because they stopped moderating and brought back all the Nazis.

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        1 year ago

        Has the site really changed that much since the Muskification, or are people just exposed to more negative stuff because the Elon hate-bandwagon is amplifying everything?

        I don’t use twitter at all, so I have no frame of reference.